Matt Gaetz was outraged by Martin Short’s joke about his job following his abrupt resignation from Congress on Saturday Night Live.
The Trump ally was the first to be mocked by Short when he took the stage for SNL’s Christmas special.
“We have to continue this monologue because I have ten sketches to get to where I play an elf. Plus, I kept my Uber driver waiting, and you know how irritable Matt Gaetz can be,” he joked.
Gaetz, who resigned last month as Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, did not take too kindly to the joke, responding on social media.
“SNL just called me an uber driver? As an insult? It is a job done by HONEST AND HARDWORKING people,” he says wrote on X.
“Imagine being so out of touch that you insult Uber drivers just to get a rise out of me. Sad!’
Gaetz’s actual new job as a talk show host at the conservative One America News Network starts the first week of January. He also turns to Cameo to generate revenue by charging people $325 or more to record personalized videos.
At Sunday’s Turning Point USA AmericaFest conference in Phoenix, Arizona, Gaetz dished on a number of different directions he sees his career going.
“My fellow Floridians asked me to tour the governor’s mansion in Tallahassee. Perhaps a special counsel to address the insider trading of my former colleagues in Congress,” he said on stage.
“It seems I haven’t had enough support in the United States Senate. Maybe I’ll run for Marco Rubio’s vacant seat in the United States Senate and join some of those people.”
Former Congressman Matt Gaetz was outraged by a joke Martin Short made about him being an Uber driver now that he has resigned as Florida representative
Pictured: Gaetz responded to Short’s jibe with this post on X
He also said he would not return to the House of Representatives when the new Congress is sworn in on January 3, something he may well do since winning his re-election bid in November.
“And my friend Steve Bannon and others have suggested that I return to the House of Representatives on January 3, but I want to remind Steve that when he got out of prison, he did not hit a guard on the way out. For now, I enjoy being one of you,” he said.
Shortly after President-elect Trump nominated Gaetz to lead the Justice Department on November 13, the rabble-rousing conservative resigned from Congress in stunning fashion.
His resignation came as he reviewed the release of a potentially damaging House Ethics Committee investigation into his alleged sexual misconduct, whether he used illegal drugs and whether he “shared inappropriate images or videos on the House floor.”
After a week of non-stop media coverage of the various allegations against Gaetz – including one from a woman who claimed she had a threesome with him when she was just 17 – he announced that he would no longer be serving as a prosecutor. general would look for.
Gaetz denies all allegations against him and frequently points to the fact that a Justice Department investigation into him ended in 2023 without charges being filed.
However, the House of Representatives report on Gaetz’s conduct will now be released after the Ethics Committee secretly voted to do so on Wednesday.
The same committee had voted along party lines last month to keep the report secret, with many lawmakers saying it is unusual for Congress to release the results of an investigation into a former representative.
Gaetz’s other claim to fame is that he was the lone representative to trigger a vote to oust former Congressman Kevin McCarthy (left) as Speaker of the House of Representatives last October. That effort was successful and Republicans replaced McCarthy with Louisiana Representative Mike Johnson
But some Republican senators, while Gaetz was still being picked by Trump, argued that they should at least view the report as part of their role in confirming presidential nominees.
Trump has since replaced Gaetz with Pam Bondi, a close MAGA ally and the first woman to serve as Florida’s attorney general. She held the role from 2011 to 2019.
Gaetz was first elected to Congress during Trump’s first term and quickly became one of his staunchest defenders.
Gaetz is also known for provoking a vote to oust former Congressman Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House of Representatives last October.
That effort was successful and Republicans replaced McCarthy with Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson, who himself is at risk of being removed from office in January.