Matthew Gertz

@MattGertz215k followers

Senior Fellow at @mmfa. Views expressed here my own. Husband of @alyssarosenberg. Dad. Not the former GOP congressman, didn't pay for the blue check.

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1Feb 28, '25I refuse to believe there are people who talk and write about politics professionally who are actually unaware of why Zelensky wasn't wearing a suit.108×17.1M217k8.9k5.7k
2Feb 20, '25I learned about Klinefelter Syndrome (XXY) and Turner Syndrome (XO) in biology class my freshman year of high school.49.6×7.9M198k12k4.2k
3Jul 31, '24They're really going for it.35.3×5.6M23k1.7k1.2k
4Sep 8, '25Can't even smack your wife around without the cops getting involved anymore because of woke.29.1×4.6M134k12k5k
5Sep 20, '24oh no25.1×4M27k1k422
6Jan 3, '23Kind of curious -- if there's no Speaker, on whose authority were the metal detectors removed? Who does the Capital Police currently report to?23.8×3.8M38k5.1k165
7Jun 10, '251. I'm going to thread out the very odd sequence of events that led Fox News anchor John Robert, theoretically a "straight news" guy, to pretend the early hours of June 7 actually 22.4×3.6M26k3.8k3.2k
8Feb 28, '25If you're Germany, Poland, Taiwan, South Korea, or Japan right now, you should probably assume the U.S. is an unreliable ally and try to get your own nuclear deterrent.19.2×3M77k7.9k1.7k
9Nov 19, '24LET’S GOOOOOOOO17.3×2.8M71k1.7k647
10Mar 4, '25I was told the countries paid the tariffs.16.6×2.6M66k5.3k709
11Nov 13, '24Well. That's not good.16×2.5M64k2.4k741
12Aug 24, '23How populist "entrepreneur" Vivek Ramaswamy got rich: 1. Found biotech firm with hedge fund/venture capital $ 2. Buy patent for Alzheimer's drug that had failed 4 trials, raise mor15.7×2.5M19k5.1k1.2k
13Jul 18, '24i did not take botox please stop asking me whether i took botox12.3×1.9M27k944143
14Jun 6, '23That Tucker video is bleak. It’s jarring how his schtick just does not work without the Fox bells-and-whistles. He was maybe the most powerful man in rw media; now he’s just anothe12.2×1.9M18k1.5k245
15Dec 23, '24why did something happen oh sweet god it’s the holidays why12×1.9M39k1.1k474
16Jun 8, '23Telling my audience of seniors to step out into the orange cloud and take a deep breath to own the libs.11.7×1.9M19k1.8k287
17Feb 3, '25A private... server?11.7×1.9M48k6.8k2.3k
18Feb 2, '25Seems bad that the richest man on earth is unilaterally breaking the federal government’s contracts that spend funds duly allocated by Congress.10.9×1.7M20k3.7k858
19Nov 21, '24ahahahahahahahahsahsahahahahahashhaahahha10.7×1.7M64k2.5k458
20Jun 14, '23Left: Fox News claiming the pride flag the White House used promotes pedophilia. Right: Fox’s parent company promoting its inclusiveness in 2022 by wrapping its corporate logo in t8.1×1.3M16k3.8k293
21Aug 22, '24The secret DNC guest is the late, great, Dr. Hannibal Lecter.7.6×1.2M24k1.5k265
22Oct 30, '24Stakes coming in focus over the last 24 hours: 1) RFK Jr. says Trump “promised me” control of the HHS and Ag. 2) Trump confirms he's giving Elon Musk permission to cut up to $2 tri7.6×1.2M23k10k791
23Sep 5, '25Look, the tariffs may be crushing U.S. manufacturing, but at least we all get to pay more for everything.7.4×1.2M27k4.2k637
24Nov 13, '24Matt Gaetz pick is so crazy people have forgotten the Tulsi Gabbard pick which was so crazy people had forgotten about the Pete Hegseth pick. Who knows what tomorrow will bring.7.4×1.2M37k4k651
25Jun 10, '25Why would a call log from June 7 prove that Trump called Newsom on June 9?6.7×1.1M24k1.1k224
26Feb 27, '25"Outs"? Are government employees supposed to operate under secret identities?6.6×1M37k2.5k576
27Apr 7, '21Another normal day on a normal website.6.5×0105k5.1k571
28Mar 17, '25Psycho shit.6.1×970k28k3.1k1.3k
29Aug 28, '25The sort of image which, if you predicted it would come to pass last October, people would have accused you of having Trump Derangement Syndrome.5.8×927k29k5.4k2k
30Nov 13, '24DO NOT CONGRATULATE!5.7×907k25k793130
31Feb 5, '20If I understand this correctly, the president awarded the medal of freedom to a talk radio host with a revoltingly long record of bigotry during the State of the Union — and the ci5.5×069k14k281
32Oct 10, '24The blue bars are articles mentioning Hillary Clinton's email server in the week after the Oct. 2016 Comey letter. The red bars are articles mentioning Trump's Jan. 6 indictment th5.2×826k15k5.4k1.3k
33Jul 28, '17President urges officers to commit acts of brutality, officers laugh and cheer wildly. Beginning to think problem isn't a few bad apples.5.1×031k22k7
34Nov 14, '17Shep Smith just took apart the Uranium One conspiracy theory in what amounts to a methodical annihilation of his own network's coverage of the story.4.6×041k17k11
35Feb 15, '24Jesse Watters loves marriage so much that he married the 15-years-younger producer on his show with whom he had an affair while married to the wife of his first two children.4.5×721k19k3k284
36Nov 6, '25They warned us that if Mamdani won, the government would try to seize the means of production, and here we are.4.4×703k24k3.6k1.1k
37Apr 11, '21some personal news4.4×074k2.8k188
38Apr 20, '23Suckers, I was the congressman this entire time!4.3×689k15k66026
39Apr 1, '21OH COME ON!4.3×068k2.6k215
40Aug 27, '20The first ten minutes of tonight's Tucker Carlson Tonight are the closest thing I think I've ever seen to pure, unfiltered fascism in American public life. Going out to the largest4.3×052k11k688
41Nov 13, '24This is going well.4.0×635k27k623183
42Jul 31, '24I really don't understand how someone could watch that and think he's fit to be president.3.9×613k25k2.6k83
43Apr 1, '25This is straightforwardly evil.3.8×607k22k2.5k1.2k
44Apr 9, '21personal update my friend is not ratting me out to the feds my venmo is pristine i have not traveled to the bahamas this century the walls are not closing in3.7×061k2.1k123
45Apr 2, '21Gaetz: Embattled amid a series of scandals. Gertz: Enjoying a day off, eating fried chicken, watching a giant ape punch a giant lizard and vice versa.3.6×060k2.4k116
46Jun 18, '20stop yelling at me about my imaginary nonwhite children3.3×052k2.8k130
47Sep 6, '20Since his RNC speech nine days ago decrying leftist "cancel culture, speech codes, and crushing conformity," Trump has called for the firings of Fox's Jennifer Griffin, MSNBC's Joy3.3×036k11k333
48Aug 23, '24The DNC is over, did Chicago end up burning? I was promised Chicago would burn. Can anyone confirm?3.2×515k18k1k102
49Oct 30, '221. By week’s end, a sizable percentage of the GOP base will believe an absurd conspiracy theory positing that Paul Pelosi was assaulted by his leftist gay lover. Allow me to explai3.2×033k6.5k2.2k
50Mar 11, '25The sole reference to the market plunge on last night's Jesse Watters Primetime came when the guy Watters sent the beach in Fort Lauderdale asked spring breakers the issue most imp3.1×493k18k1.1k553
51Jan 26, '22This, for me, will go poorly.2.9×048k1.8k181
52Nov 21, '22Elon Musk interacting with sycophantic right-wing influencers this weekend, a thread.2.9×031k3.9k1.9k
53Oct 7, '25Oh he absolutely 100% took it.2.9×454k24k2.4k488
54Nov 17, '22Great news everyone, "America's Crime Crisis" (trademark Fox News) is over! All it took was Election Day eliminating the perceived political benefit of talking about crime all the 2.8×030k8.6k1.1k
55Mar 31, '21**cracks knuckles**2.8×047k1.4k139
56May 8, '24Intuitively = "We made it up"2.6×418k16k2k140
57Mar 12, '20Republicans made a bet that they could stick a moronic incompetent in the Oval Office and get their preferred policy outcomes without cost. They lost, and now the bill is coming du2.6×033k6.6k146
58Mar 30, '21oh fuck2.2×032k2.6k150
59Apr 13, '21I am extremely skeptical of the ability of public messaging to disaggregate "the J&J vaccine is under review as a precaution" from "the J&J vaccine is not safe and the othe2.2×031k3.5k222
60Jun 10, '22Fox News isn't just letting Tucker Carlson do his regular show, they're airing it without commercials. They want to push his propaganda so much that they are leaving money on the t2.2×028k4.3k262
61Aug 28, '21I met Pope Francis in the Vatican yesterday, briefly. I said, “Holy Father, I wrote a lot of good tweets.” He took my name tag in his hands, looked at it, and said, “the Florida co2.0×033k1.4k146
62Feb 24, '22Hey remember when Donald Trump tried to condition military aid to Ukraine on Ukraine's president providing dirt on Trump's political rival and then the Republican Party and its ass2.0×025k4.7k257
63Jul 30, '21I'm fully vaccinated.1.9×033k54351
64Jan 26, '22A SCOTUS confirmation battle during a midterm fight during a pandemic during a possible European war during a potential government shutdown during key domestic legislative wranglin1.8×027k2.5k203
65Jan 25, '18Shep Smith just totally shattered the Nunes memo narrative his colleagues Fox News have been pushing.1.8×015k6.4k6
66Apr 27, '21This is unbelievably dangerous, just an insane level of stakes-raising.1.8×022k3.1k370
67Aug 10, '21I’M ON VACATION YOU MONSTERS1.7×027k1.3k73
68Mar 16, '22I am begging these people to read one (1) book.1.7×025k1.8k300
69Oct 3, '20Dawning realization that nine months into the pandemic. senior WH officials think that if you test negative it means that you definitely have not caught the virus and can do whatev1.6×021k3.8k123
70Apr 12, '21We’ve gone from “I didn’t see the president’s unhinged tweets” to “it is suspicious that the president isn’t doing unhinged tweets.”1.6×022k2.6k107
71Oct 2, '20Sooooo did the White House just lie initially about Trump being asymptomatic?1.5×022k2.1k48
72Feb 19, '21Imagine how brain-broken you need to be to think that it would be bad news for Biden for the pandemic to end.1.5×022k2.2k82
73Jul 27, '21i did not have a presser today and my in-laws love me1.5×025k69126
74Apr 27, '20The president wanting to quadruple the price you pay to ship packages because he thinks, probably incorrectly, that it will damage the business interest of the guy who owns a newsp1.5×018k4.4k80
75Apr 10, '21Belated birthday present from my brother-in-law!1.4×024k92934
76Dec 22, '20A Mount Rushmore of bad takes this year from the WSJ opinion section.1.4×019k2.8k272
77May 5, '20That Lincoln Project ad aired during Tucker Carlson Tonight last night, if you're wondering why Trump lost his mind over it.1.4×018k3.2k86
78Jul 24, '22things are going great1.4×022k607135
79Apr 8, '21how dare you, none of my friends would ever turn on me with the feds1.3×022k64857
80Nov 17, '22Let's have some fun. Here's a thread of Tucker Carlson interviewing 18 Republican politicians who were defeated in the midterms. I give you... TUCKER'S LOSERS.1.3×017k2.4k766
81Jan 27, '22oh no1.3×021k60184
82Apr 30, '21View post on X1.3×021k71166
83May 18, '22Kind of assume at this point that everything Elon Musk says is geared toward finding a way to exit the Twitter deal while saving face given that it is now expensive for him and he 1.3×019k1.5k110
84Feb 8, '19Churchill said this right before getting his ass kicked in the 1945 elections. Three years later, the Labour government launched the NHS. 70+ years ago and still no Gestapo.1.3×016k3.3k69
85Apr 5, '21the congressman is getting all my happy birthdays today smdh1.2×019k45227
86Feb 6, '20**wakes up, checks mentions** I see that I’m going to be tweeting “wrong guy” a lot today.1.2×019k66827
87May 23, '20[stares into the camera]1.2×019k86555
88May 14, '21Damn it Matt, I have a family!1.1×019k65957
89Jan 14, '21I get email!1.1×019k55071
91Apr 10, '21(No one in my mentions can tell on which level of irony the other people in my mentions are operating and it’s kind of hilarious.)1.1×018k44642
92Apr 9, '21My life is deeply strange.1.1×018k42720
93Dec 1, '20Scott Atlas was the purest example of the Trump-Fox feedback loop in action: An unqualified ideologue launched to power because the president liked his Fox hits. The result was tha1.0×014k2.1k84
94Sep 2, '21I dunno, kinda seems like the Democrats should have a gubernatorial candidate in Texas in case there's a backlash to **waves arms around**1.0×016k1.3k37
95Sep 1, '22Alaskans passed a ballot initiative to implement ranked choice voting in 2020; the measure had at least some support from Trump voters. But Republicans lost a House seat in the fir1.0×015k1.2k158
96Mar 29, '22please stop tweeting that I hang out with madison cawthorn1.0×017k50034
97Aug 11, '22Reminder that virtually the entire Republican leadership and the leading lights of the right-wing media went to the mat in defense of Trump with no idea whatsoever what the FBI mig1.0×014k1.8k79
98Jun 24, '20help1.0×015k69578
99Jan 24, '22**opens Twitter mentions for the first time in three months** oh god0.9×016k36634
100Jun 23, '22oh dear god i was writing and now my mentions are fucked0.9×015k40859
101Jan 14You can find me on Bluesky and Substack -- same handle, same media analysis, still not a congressman.0.6×100k1.1k10456

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