Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) stated Wednesday he’s “not on social media at all” after New York journal reported in Might {that a} former aide had stated social platform X was usually a spotlight of the senator.
“I’m actually not on — I’m not on social media at all,” Fetterman stated at a Wednesday occasion for Semafor.
“I try to remind people that social media is the funhouse mirror of the distortion of reality,” the Pennsylvania Democrat later added. “And wherever I’m going in public, individuals are beautiful, they usually’re actually really sort and really supportive, and ‘Hey, can we have a picture and shake your hand?’ sort of a factor.”
“So, I would just remind anybody, the world that you see on those social media is just not the reality,” he continued.
In Might, New York journal reported that former Fetterman staffer Adam Jentleson stated the lawmaker had a fixation with X. Fetterman acknowledged his despair was intensified by the app.
Fetterman dismissed the journal’s report, which described issues from a few of his previous and then-staffers over his psychological state a number of days after it got here out.
“It’s a one-source story with a couple of anonymous sources, a hit piece from a very left publication,” Fetterman informed NBC Information when questioned over the story.
Fetterman stated later in Might that former aides who had voiced issues over his psychological well being had a “weird grudge” in opposition to him.
The Pennsylvania Democrat, who was hospitalized in 2023 for medical despair 9 months after a stroke, stated this spring that he was properly and deliberate to remain in workplace for the remainder of his Senate time period.
