Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) was widely criticized on social media for delivering what was called a melodramatic and unnatural State of the Union rebuttal Thursday night.
The first-term senator went after President Biden following his own address over his handling of the economy, the southern border, his age and a slew of other issues, but Britt herself got roasted for the 17-minute speech she delivered from her Montgomery, Ala., home.
Some observers panned the setting — having a senator deliver a major speech from a kitchen — while many others compared her to a drama club student or an actor giving a bad audition.
Actor and comedian Tom Arnold did not hold back in his post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
“Katie Britt is so bad she couldn’t be in one of my movies,” Arnold wrote.
Former Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele seemed puzzled by Britt’s delivery.
“Well, that Katie Britt experience was…experiential,” Steele wrote Thursday night on X.
Daily Beast columnist Matt Lewis said the Alabama Republican’s delivery would force people to flee the scene as, in his view, Britt offered an “emotional rollercoaster.”
“If you were having a conversation with someone who was careening from joy to sadness to anger like this, your instinct would be: ‘I need to get the hell out of here. I’m going to slowly back out of this room,’” Lewis wrote Friday morning on X.
Former President Trump, however, praised her performance, saying she distinguished herself from Biden and showed compassion for “women’s issues.”
“Katie Britt was a GREAT contrast to an Angry, and obviously very Disturbed, ‘President,’” he wrote on Truth Social. “She was compassionate and caring, especially concerning Women and Women’s Issues. Her conversation on Migrant Crime was powerful and insightful. Great job Katie!”
Still, not everybody in the Trump camp agreed.
Roger Stone, a longtime Republican operative and Trump ally, said her performance disqualified her from contention to be Trump’s running mate.
“I guess Katie Britt just failed her vice presidential audition,” Stone wrote Friday morning on X. “Godawful.”