For the past 6 weeks, Mike Lawler has featured this video at the top of his social media profile on X (formerly Twitter):
In social media speak, this video is “pinned” to the top of his account so that it’s the first thing you see. Mike the bruiser.
Of course it was the Republicans who refused to come to the table. Mike Johnson sent them home for 54 days during the shutdown. Each of those days could have been spent trying to find common ground on healthcare costs and subsidies. Each day since the first day of Trump’s first administration in 2017, for that matter.
Mike Lawler has in fact pinned himself into a doom loop, a tired routine of Trump-like projection and casting Democrats as radicals. No solutions, just slings and arrows.
You would think the Democrats are in charge the way Lawler fills his social media with invective and vitriol against Hakeem and Chuck. The Hakeem video is pinned to the top of Lawler’s official X account (@RepMikeLawler), and Schumer’s image is pinned to the top of Lawler’s alter ego X account (@lawler4ny). In last week’s meltdown, Lawler called Schumer a “Schmuck, Putz, and Shanda.” And yesterday, there was Lawler again posting schoolboy taunts of Jeffries:
No, it’s not going to be “as easy and he thinks.” What a bruiser.
Meanwhile, after trying to shrug off the Epstein matter as political theater by the Democrats, Lawler is suddenly a fierce defender of the victims, voting in favor of disclosing the files today even though he was against bringing it to a vote.
Back in July, Lawler said “The guy is dead and buried. Let’s move on.” Today, Lawler is all about “ensuring justice for the victims.”
He’s been pinned on healthcare policy, pinned on justice for sexual predators, pinned on MAGA. 2026 definitely “ain’t gonna be as easy and he thinks.”
Rule of Lawler 