Hank Azaria, the voice actor of Police Chief Clancy Wiggum in The Simpsons, responded to Donald Trump’s latest false claims about folks consuming pets in Springfield in his character. The weird remarks have been first made by the previous president throughout his first presidential debate with Kamala Harris on Tuesday, September 10. In the allegations which have been quickly after deflated by ABC News, Trump mentioned, “In Springfield, they’re consuming the canine. The those who got here in. They’re consuming the cats. They’re consuming – they’re consuming the pets of the those who dwell there. And that is what’s taking place in our nation, and it’s a disgrace.”
Hank Azaria responds to Trump’s claims in opposition to Haitian immigrants in Ohio
In a video shared by Azaria on X, the voice actor responded to the claims made by Trump. The video started with Azaria selecting up a name and mentioned, “Springfield Police, Chief Clancy Wiggum talking, how can I make it easier to?” He continued in a baffled tone, “People are consuming canine? D’you imply like sizzling canine? Oh, cats! Mr Katz is consuming sizzling canine? No? People are consuming canine, and cats? People are consuming canine and cats in Springfield?… Are they good?”
Trump referred hearsay of Haitian immigrants consuming pets in Springfield in the course of the debate. The hearsay was began by his teammate, JD Vance, who claimed the latter have been abducting pets and “inflicting chaos” within the city. The Springfield Police Division agreed they have been conscious of the “rumours” however have been missing concrete data to help them.
During the talk when Trump first spoke of the hearsay, he was shortly interrupted by David Muir. The moderator mentioned, “ABC News did attain out to town supervisor there. He informed us there had been no credible studies of particular claims of pets being harmed, injured or abused by people throughout the immigrant group.”
Trump argued that he had seen tales on TV about folks consuming pets and added, “People on tv say, ‘My canine was taken and used for meals,’ so possibly he mentioned that and possibly that’s a superb factor to say for a metropolis supervisor,” as reported by The Independent.
Internet reacts to Hank Azaria’s response
The declare that individuals eat pets in Springfield resulted in social media exploding with numerous memes about it. Many Simpsons-themed memes additionally erupted on social media that includes the household canine, Santa’s Little Helper and cat Snowball II. Netizens additionally reacted to Azaria’s response to Trump on the weird rumours on X.
A person wrote on X, “The Simpsons have gotten to do an episode joking about this.” A second person wrote, “Considering Hannity and Watters are the spreaders of the lies. Good job, Chief.” A 3rd person wrote, “Could have sworn the Simpsons predicted this one too.”
A person wrote, “Now Professor Frink because the man calling within the report!” whereas one other wrote, “Looks like Chief Wiggum’s gonna want extra donuts to deal with this one!”