Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney sparked distress among Twitter users Tuesday when he posted a video showing the unique way he blows out his birthday candles.
Romney’s staff gifted him with a birthday cake made out of Twinkies, which he says are his favorite snack, and sang “Happy Birthday” to him. A video of the surprise shows Romney individually taking out each candle and blowing it out just a few inches from his face, rather than just blowing out the candles on the cake all at once. (RELATED: Gutfeld Lists 3 Things ‘Blander’ Than Mitt Romney)
WATCH:
My team surprised me with a cake made out of my favorite snack—twinkies! Looking forward to all this year has in store. pic.twitter.com/lQfyIrQ9Qe
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) March 12, 2019
Twitter users reacted viscerally to Romney’s method of blowing out his candles.
“You may think you don’t need to watch this video of Mitt Romney getting a cake made out of twinkies, but otherwise how will you find out what completely bizarre way Mitt Romney blows out birthday candles,” one user wrote.
You may think you don’t need to watch this video of Mitt Romney getting a cake made out of twinkies, but otherwise how will you find out what completely bizarre way Mitt Romney blows out birthday candles https://t.co/38a2bwuu1j
— bs (@bart_smith) March 12, 2019
Mitt Romney has been alive for 72 years and apparently has never seen a normal person blow out birthday candles
— bs (@bart_smith) March 12, 2019
ive never seen anything like this
— hunter harris (@hunteryharris) March 12, 2019
“Mitt Romney is a deeply weird dude,” journalist Bradford Pearson wrote.
This is the most bizarre technique for blowing out birthday candles that I’ve ever witnessed. Mitt Romney is a deeply weird dude. pic.twitter.com/kLGuJawDpv
— Bradford Pearson (@BradfordPearson) March 12, 2019
Paul Harris, an editor for The Guardian, joked that Romney is “an alien still learning to be ‘human’ and forgetting some of the basics.”
Mitt Romney is an alien still learning to be “human” and forgetting some of the basics. h/t @MartinxHodgson https://t.co/WTabUf9Mq7
— Paul Harris (@paulxharris) March 12, 2019
Mitt Romney has never seen a birthday cake confirmed https://t.co/SqanWGI3K6
— Conor White (@conorjwhite) March 12, 2019
Mitt Romney has never seen a birthday cake confirmed https://t.co/SqanWGI3K6
— Conor White (@conorjwhite) March 12, 2019
I legit said “what the fuck” out loud. He’s genuinely a robot or an alien who doesn’t understand how humans function. https://t.co/xFtUyKQuv8
— Dianna E. Anderson (@diannaeanderson) March 12, 2019
Romney has struggled with relatability issues during his various political campaigns. In 2007, Romney was accused of transporting his dog on the roof of his car for 12 hours. And this past May, he shared that his “favorite meat is hot dog” and his “second favorite meat is hamburger.”