Fetterman Shreds Fellow Democrats Again, Says Some ‘To Turn Me Into Colonel Kurtz’
Charlie Kirk Staff
06/15/2025

Pennsylvania Democrat Sen. John Fetterman took a swipe at his own party again, this time claiming that some Democrats want to paint him as a parody of a fictional Marlon Brando character.
He made the comments when he spoke to HBO “Real Time” host Bill Maher this weekend.
“You think this is the issue that made people sort of turn on you? I see, I saw recently reports you had, I think, your chief of staff quit on you and start talking shit about you,” the host said to which the senator responded “Yeah.”
“And we know, you made no secret of it, but you purposely publicized it so that people would take inspiration from it, that you had a stroke, you had issues with depression, and it seemed to me like they were sort of weaponizing that, to say you’d gone crazy. And I did smell kind of a rat here when I read that you were driving recklessly and too much time on Twitter and like, you know, megalomania. I’m like, hmm,” the host said.
“So defend yourself here, John. I mean, I don’t think you’re crazy. You don’t seem crazy, but, and I have certainly seen people who refuse to go all the way with the purity lovers on the left suddenly castigated and cast out as an attack like this. So is that what’s going on?” he said.
“You know, yeah, absolutely. Parts of my party just wants to turn me into a Colonel Kurtz, you know, and just claim that it’s like, oh, like, I’m just like that,” the senator responded.
“You look like you could play the part,” the host commented, drawing laughter from the senator.
“So really, that would happen, you know, after Israel and at the border. And some of the times I might have to disagree with my party. And that’s really, we brought us to that place where, you know, just that kind of a canceling was a little bit of a different thing,” Sen. Fetterman said.
“But now we’ve all moved on from that. But, but absolutely, that’s the truth,” he said.