GOP Gets No Love Over ‘Disgraceful’ Valentine’s Day Swipe At Pritzker

The national Republican Party and the Florida GOP drew fierce backlash Saturday — Valentine’s Day — over social media posts that critics condemned as juvenile and offensive.

On X, the national GOP account shared a cartoon-style image depicting Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (who has long been the subject of fat jokes from the political right) eating fast food alongside the caption: “My love for you is bigger than JB Pritzker.” See the post here.

The post quickly drew criticism, including from some Republicans.

Gregg Nunziata, a former adviser to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, slammed the targeting of Pritzker, a potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidate, as “disgraceful, juvenile garbage” and suggested it made it harder for him to remain in the party.

Doug Heye, a former Republican National Committee communications director, criticized the post, writing: “This never would have gone out when I was running the RNC comms shop. Reveling in unprofessionalism.”

Others described the image as “nasty and self-debasing” and “disgraceful.”

Some critics even reworked the image to depict President Donald Trump instead.

Meanwhile, the Florida GOP posted an AI-generated image of two alligators standing in front of a sign referencing “Alligator Alcatraz,” the informal name of the mass migrant detention center in Florida’s Everglades which is surrounded by wetlands inhabited by the reptiles.

See that post here.

The accompanying caption read: “Don’t be a spaz, I wanna get locked up with you at Alligator Alcatraz.”

That post also sparked condemnation, with one critic calling it representative of a “miserable and morally bankrupt political movement.”

Others labeled it “inappropriate on multiple levels” and “so fucking dumb.”