Roseanne Barr’s Reaction to Tim Walz’s Photo Hits the Web

Roseanne Barr accused Tim Walz in a social media post of hating “billionaires who love America.”

Walz, the Minnesota governor and former high school teacher and coach, formally accepted the vice presidential nomination when he delivered the opening remarks at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night.

Walz took the stage to a standing ovation as thousands of convention attendees held up cutouts of his face and signs reading “Coach Walz.” While he was a hit with Democrats, various outspoken Republicans shared their criticism of the politician, including Barr.

Barr, a conservative Trump supporter, retweeted Gabe Kaminsky’s post. The investigative journalist Washington Examiner shared two photos of Walz with Alex Soros, the investor and philanthropist who is one of five children of billionaire George Soros.

“Tim Walz, who I’ve been reliably told hates billionaires, meets with Alex Soros at the DNC,” Kaminsky wrote under the photos, to which Barr added, “They don’t hate billionaires — they hate billionaires who love America.”

Newsweek emailed a spokesperson for Barr and reached Walz through the website of the Office of Governor Tim Walz and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan for comment on Friday.

As of this writing, Barr’s post has been viewed more than 325,000 times.

Barr’s tweet refers to the fact that various Democratic Party politicians have said they want to continue taxing the wealthiest.

During his 2024 State of the Union address in March, Biden promised to raise taxes on billionaires to a minimum rate of 25 percent, joking about the “great sacrifices” billionaires currently make, paying an average of 8.2 percent.

That same month, news emerged that Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts was leading a group of progressive lawmakers seeking to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans, a move she has long advocated for.

The Ultra Millionaire Tax Act would impose an annual tax of 2 percent on the net worth of households and trusts worth between $50 million and $1 billion, and an annual additional tax of 1 percent on the net worth of households and trusts worth more than $1 billion, for a total tax of 3 percent.

Warren said the tax increase would affect only the wealthiest 100,000 households in the country. That’s about 0.05 percent of the U.S. population, according to a news release from Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., who introduced the bill in the House of Representatives along with Rep. Brendan F. Boyle, D-Pennsylvania.

Barr’s political views are a far cry from what they once were. Earlier in her career, she was a staunch progressive, protesting at the Occupy Wall Street rally and running for president first as a Green Party candidate and later as a Peace and Freedom Party candidate. But the comedian voted for Trump in 2016 and has publicly supported him ever since.

Asked in December by Newsweek On why, in the face of mounting criticism and backlash, Barr continues to publicly share his political views, the comedian said: “It’s important to me to continue to speak out because I can’t let the f***ing win. That’s why.”