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Al Franken

@alfranken1.1M followers

Husband, Dad, Granddad, Democrat, Minnesotan, Author, Human Cannonball, Comedian, Head of Midwest Values PAC

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1Oct 1, '25Is JD Vance a liar or just woefully ignorant when claiming that Democrats want to give health benefits to undocumented immigrants?34.9×6.5M30k4.9k407
2Sep 25, '24As a Jew that hates Trump, I will be happy to have a lot to do with his loss this November!19.1×3.6M26k3.8k193
3Dec 19, '22After watching the Jan 6 committee today, my overwhelming reaction is just how profoundly sad it is that Donald Trump was POTUS.16.6×3.1M91k9.8k108
4Aug 24, '23No one is trying to allow abortions right up to birth. You asshole, DeSantis. #GOPDebate16.2×3M58k8.8k129
5Jan 30, '25This is disgraceful. Though it may not have stopped the crash, Trump is distracting us from the fact that he did not appoint a new FAA Administrator until today. The former FAA Adm15.9×3M41k10k1.7k
6Jun 23, '23Justice Alito justified his estimated $100k ride on a billionaire’s plane for a luxury fishing trip to Alaska, saying the seat was vacant. Turns out the seat was intended for an ei13.1×2.4M35k8k222
7Sep 10, '25Never thought I’d say a prayer for Charlie Kirk. But here goes. Political violence has no place in this country.12.9×2.4M30k1.7k362
8Dec 13, '23Said the woman who voted for Kavanaugh and Gorsuch and unleashed this nightmare.10.1×1.9M41k10k174
9Nov 8, '24Frankly, I am shaken by the size of Trump’s win. Clearly, we are in a very difficult period as a country. But even as we lick our wounds, we can’t give up the fight. So much of Tru9.5×1.8M26k3.3k444
10Dec 23, '22DOJ can prosecute people. Meaning they can flip people. Meaning they will. Meaning a lot of people are going down. Including Trump.8.9×1.7M43k5k57
11Mar 27, '23There is no reason to have assault weapons. None. Let’s ban them and buy back every one (at fair market price) & see what happens after 5 years.8.6×1.6M41k5.4k44
12Aug 1, '24I looked into it. Kamala has always claimed to be both Indian and Black. Like how Trump has always been both white and a weird asshole.6.7×1.2M46k7.7k287
13Dec 21, '22Feels like a bad week for Trump.6.7×1.2M29k1.6k12
14May 30, '24This is a great day because justice prevailed; Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts. But a sad day because we have a former president who committed several crimes. If this had g6.1×1.1M48k7.5k306
15Feb 24, '25Interesting watching the Trump/Macron Presser. Macron started off blowing a lot of smoke up Trump’s butt, complimenting him on his leadership, but segued into the almost universall5.4×1M29k3.6k472
16Jun 24, '23Fuck Alito! Sometimes profanity is appropriate. For example, on the anniversary of the Dobbs decision. So… also fuck Thomas, Roberts, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Coney Barett. But espe5.2×959k31k6.7k61
17Sep 11, '24The only one eating dogs is RFK Jr. #Debate20245.1×955k34k4.4k167
18Jun 21, '206,200 people at Trump rally in Tulsa. Acts that had bigger crowds at the same venue in 2019: - Sha Na Na - The Pips (w/o Gladys Knight) - Loverboy - John Tesh - The West Virginia T4.5×087k18k275
19Oct 8, '23Happy birthday to my beautiful beloved wife Franni. Still 4 1/2 months younger than me as when we met 54 years ago!4.4×821k24k9688
20Jan 7, '21Nice speech, @LindseyGrahamSC! But I seem to recall that you called the GA and AR Secretaries of State to find votes for your golf buddy.4.3×093k16k82
21Nov 5, '24Vote, Dammit! For Kamala! Why? Because she trusts women to make their own healthcare decisions. She’ll cut middle-class taxes but make the wealthiest pay their fair share. She’ll r4.3×795k31k5.9k250
22Sep 19, '20Every GOP Senator who refused to give Garland a vote & now agrees to vote for a Trump SCOTUS nominee will forever be remembered as a monumental hypocrite. And McConnell will li4.2×077k19k157
23Dec 22, '22Amazing speech. So powerful and moving.3.9×733k23k1.2k10
24Aug 6, '24It’s Walz! Pronounced “Walls”. A great choice with an impressive record in Minnesota: making reproductive freedom a right, expanding paid family and medical leave, making school me3.9×726k50k7.5k257
25May 15, '22Democrats’ attempt to codify the right to abortion went down 49-51. We should immediately drop a bill codifying the right to use contraception. Make Republicans vote on that one! L3.9×080k14k209
26Jan 11, '21Susan Collins this morning: “I don’t think it’s necessary to take the nuclear codes away from President Trump because this time he’s really learned his lesson.”3.8×068k8.6k182
27May 27, '22In his speech at the NRA convention today, @tedcruz actually said, “What stops armed bad guys is armed good guys.” That’s what happens when you write your speech a week in advance 3.8×084k11k211
28Aug 24, '23Critical race theory was never taught in Florida in K-12, so DeSanitis is LYING when he says he eliminated it. #GOPDebate3.7×687k29k5.5k58
29Aug 13, '22I’ve decided to endorse @RepLizCheney for the Republican nomination for the House seat In Wyoming it’s my first time endorsing in a GOP primary. But I think Al Franken’s support wi3.7×070k7.1k109
30Oct 2, '24Today is our all important 49th wedding anniversary. That's right, seven squared! Here we are one year into the marriage, evidently Franni was going through big hair at the time. A3.6×670k40k2.7k139
31Aug 23, '24In 2000, Al Gore “lost” Florida and with it, the presidency by 537 votes. I won my Senate seat by 312 votes. The battleground states will be decided by one or two votes per precinc3.6×663k38k9.6k277
32Dec 19, '19Listening to Mitch McConnell talk about the decline of bipartisanship is like listening to Jeffrey Dahmer complain about the decline of dinner party etiquette.3.5×065k16k154
33Jul 15, '19It's time to stop taking Trump seriously and to start taking him literally.3.4×071k11k77
34Jun 24, '22As I said after the Alito leak, Dems should put a bill on the floor codifying the right to birth control, and in light of Thomas’ concurrence, marriage equality and privacy.3.3×069k12k142
35Nov 9, '19Trump today: "I could shoot somebody in the middle of 5th Avenue and Lindsey Graham would still be against impeachment."3.3×068k13k77
36Mar 5, '25I didn’t hear any concepts for a healthcare plan.3.3×605k33k3.7k156
37Feb 28, '25I'm totally depressed by Trump and Vance's treatment of Zelensky in the Oval today. Seems like payback for the 2019 phone call that led to Trump's first impeachment. We can't forge2.9×535k29k4.2k198
38Apr 2, '24Neither rain nor snow will keep me from voting for Biden!2.9×531k26k2.5k46
39Jan 7, '21This isn’t on just the 13 Senators who are now challenging the certification. This is on all Republicans who waited more than a month to acknowledge that Biden won. Including @sena2.6×055k9.5k53
40Apr 8, '22Congrats to soon-to-be Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Pretty sure her husband will never plot a coup to overturn an election.2.4×056k5.8k54
41Jan 27, '20I have Republican friends in the Senate who are morally serious people. McConnell is not one of them. Let’s see if there are four who think it’s important to hear the truth. #Impea2.3×047k9.1k30
42Feb 22, '21Interesting that Grassley opened 1st post-election Judiciary hearing with a lie, saying the only reason he opposed Garland’s SCOTUS nomination was that it was too close (9 months) 2.3×044k10k103
43Dec 4, '19Good news. I found Jim Jordan's jacket.2.3×051k5.2k32
44Nov 15, '22Congrats to horrible lying scumbag Kevin McCarthy on winning the nomination to lead a terrible group comprised almost entirely of nut jobs and/or chickenshits.2.3×046k7.9k120
45Feb 12, '21Question to Trump lawyers: You showed a lot of video clips showing Democrats saying “fight.” Do you have any footage of their audiences rioting right after? #ImpeachmentTrial #Impe2.3×047k8.8k67
46Nov 16, '22I hope he knows he’ll still be indicted.2.2×048k4.7k39
47Mar 23, '20Just spoke with @amyklobuchar's husband, John Bessler, earlier. He's got COVID-19 & is in the hospital w/pneumonia. Amy had told me he was cranky, but we had a fun call - lots 2.2×053k4.6k21
48Jun 25, '22After overturning Roe, Thomas wants to revisit Griswold, Lawrence, & Obergefell. How about revisiting Thomas’ conflicts of interest instead of our rights? #RoeVsWade2.1×044k7.8k52
49Jun 8, '22Compromise on assault weapons. If we can’t just ban them, let’s change the age you can buy them from 18 to 57.2.1×048k4.2k52
50Jun 24, '22Susan Collins still insists that Gorsuch & Kavanaugh misled (fooled) her. Look, I’m not a lawyer, but I played one in a sketch, & I can tell you that I (and everyone) knew 2.1×045k6.5k68
51May 3, '22Susan Collins voted for Kavanaugh because he told her that Roe was settled law. Maybe now she understands SCOTUS can unsettle settled law. (And/or he was just lying).2.0×044k5.4k74
52Nov 7, '20And now the gracious concession.2.0×045k2.9k42
53Aug 21, '20Turns out that Steve Bannon and the other We Build the Wall con artists actually TORE DOWN two miles of the wall and resold the rebar on Craigslist.2.0×036k9.1k119
54Nov 7, '20Now is not the time for the Joint Chiefs to take the nuclear codes away from Trump. Now is the time to give him the wrong code.2.0×045k5.3k66
55Dec 30, '18As the walls cave in around Donald Trump and Dems take control of the House, it's time for Republicans who knew they put a dangerously unqualified buffoon in the WH to either help 2.0×033k10k243
56Mar 4, '21Looking forward to Trump being sworn in today.2.0×046k2.5k36
57Feb 5, '20Susan Collins says she’ll acquit because “he learned his lesson.” The only lesson Trump learned is that Susan Collins & the GOP will let him get away with anything. #Impeachmen2.0×040k7.2k36
58Jul 21, '24I commend President Biden on his decision. His tenure will be remembered as one of the most productive and consequential of any in history.1.9×358k24k1.7k61
59Jun 10, '22I don’t see how anyone watching isn’t infuriated and heartbroken. #January6thCommitteeHearings1.9×041k4.8k39
60Aug 20, '20BREAKING: Bannon still scheduled to speak Tuesday night at RNC.1.9×036k5.8k57
61Jul 9, '20On Jan. 20, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman should be reinstated at the rank of colonel & awarded the Medal of Honor for his valor by President Biden. #VindmanIsAPatriot1.9×037k7.9k43
62Aug 18, '22After Allen Weisselberg pled guilty today to 15 counts of tax fraud & implicated the Trump organization Trump posted on Truth Social - “Can’t trust a guy named Weisselberg -kno1.8×032k6.1k257
63Sep 11, '18How dangerous is Trump? It’s not the time for Mattis to tell Trump that he’s taking the nuclear codes away from him. It’s time for Mattis to give him the wrong codes.1.8×033k8.2k18
64Jun 28, '22“They’re not here to hurt me.” Hmmm. Riddle me this: Who were they there to hurt? #January6thHearings1.8×039k5.6k52
65May 1, '20Another piece of advice from the President: Trump suggested today that Americans wash their hands with boiling water. When asked to comment, Dr. Birx said, “the President was just 1.8×031k7.2k148
66May 5, '22The Leaker1.8×037k5.1k120
67Apr 28, '20BREAKING: Biden Pledges to Read Presidential Daily Brief Daily.1.7×039k4.8k33
68Mar 25, '20Sometimes it's best not to overlook the obvious.1.7×031k7.9k235
69Nov 8, '18Evidently Trump couldn’t find anyone he could rely on to deep six the Mueller investigation who hadn’t already publicly called it a witch hunt?1.7×033k7k24
70Apr 5, '19Franni and I were blessed yesterday to welcome our fourth grandchild, Claire Frances Franken into this world at 8 lbs. 12 oz. & 20 inches. Mother (Stephanie) & daughter are1.6×039k2.2k9
71Nov 3, '20Downside of a @JoeBiden Victory - We may never see Trump's healthcare plan.1.6×034k3.5k47
72Aug 20, '20If someone is saying, “If we lose the election, it means it was rigged,” what he’s telling everyone is, “The only way I can win this election is by cheating.”1.6×032k6.6k64
73Sep 5, '18Should the Senate allow a president who is an unindicted co-conspirator to nominate a justice who may well be asked to decide whether that president can be subpoenaed? That was the1.5×025k7.7k19
74Nov 28, '21Had all 4 grandkids together for 1st time since Covid. My job? Put them to bed. After 90 min., 5-yr old Avery gets Franni & says, “Grandma, give grandpa a break. He can’t contr1.5×040k1.2k55
75Nov 13, '22Dems stay in the majority in the Senate! McConnell can thank SCOTUS. Hoisted on his own petard!1.5×037k3k41
76Nov 9, '22I hope Oz knows he lost to the better man.1.5×034k2.2k20
77Nov 14, '20Here’s something to cheer up Trump! Jimmy Carter was a 1-termer, but went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize!1.5×034k3k28
78Dec 25, '20Finally giving up my War on Christmas. So, Merry Christmas, everybody!1.4×037k1.7k15
79Mar 3, '21Gee, we here in Texas haven’t screwed up royally in a whole two weeks! I know! Let’s lift the mask mandate!1.4×032k4.2k30
80Dec 24, '18The government shutdown will cost us billions of dollars. Who’s going to pay for it? Mexico.1.4×028k5k12
81May 15, '20Judging by its name, Obamagate must be really bad. But probably nowhere near as bad as the Trumpvirus.1.4×029k4.7k25
82Aug 14, '20BREAKING: Trump Says Harris was Born in Kenya and Is Obama’s Half-Sister.1.3×026k3.5k37
83Oct 23, '20I really hate Trump. #debate1.3×028k2.5k16
84Feb 22, '21So happy Merrick Garland is Biden’s AG pick! He’s the best! Should sail through. Though Cruz might think it’s too close to the 2024 election for a POTUS to pick his AG.1.3×031k3.4k20
85Aug 12, '22Recall when @SenRonJohnson said Capitol rioters didn’t scare him cuz “I know those are people who love this country, that truly respect the law.” Well, one of those rioters tried t1.3×025k5.6k43
86Nov 24, '22Me and the grandkids and our annual Thanksgiving screening of Judgement at Nuremberg.1.3×033k1.3k120
87May 5, '20The eight most terrifying words in the English language: “I’m Jared Kushner and I’m here to help.”1.3×025k5.3k48
88Apr 26, '22You know who’s great? @elonmusk!1.2×030k1.3k62
89Jan 9, '21Ben Sasse says he’s open to an impeachment trial. Where was he when he voted against witnesses in the last one?1.2×028k3.4k11
90Apr 1, '21Mitch McConnell says Biden’s infrastructure plan is a Trojan horse for tax increases. It’s not. It’s a Trojan horse for infrastructure.1.2×027k3.8k17
91Jun 17, '22Last night I was on @CNN Tonight, commenting on the hearings. I made the point that those who testified should have spoken out BEFORE January 6th. I’m afraid I might have come off 1.2×026k3.7k170
92Jan 2, '21There’s this thing pundits say about Hawley: He’s smart enough to know this is wrong cuz he’s Yale Law. EVERYONE is smart enough. Point is he’s despicable enough.1.2×026k4.3k26
93Sep 5, '20BREAKING: Trump: But for Bone Spurs, I Would Have Been Loser and Sucker.1.1×025k3.8k26
94Dec 28, '18Unfortunately, Seal Team Six has now been assigned to guard Seal Team Five.1.1×023k4.4k12
95Dec 25, '18Happy Holidays from the Frankens1.1×026k1.7k8
96Nov 9, '22Thanks, Trump! Please run!1.1×026k1.8k19
97Aug 11, '22Exciting news coming later tonight! Hint: It might be that I’m running for office. But it isn’t! 👀1.0×024k1.4k32
98Jul 22, '22Josh Hawley looked very athletic running away, didn’t he? #Jan6thHearings1.0×023k2.1k22
99Aug 14, '22Getting on the plane to LA for @JimmyKimmelLive! Very nervous!1.0×023k7274
100Jan 1, '22Happy New Year, everybody! I have a feeling that this is the year where Americans are really going to come together!1.0×022k1.3k34

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