Rep. Steve King (R) "is the congressman from Iowa's 4th District," Samantha Bee said on Wednesday's Full Frontal. "He also happens to be the district's most disgraceful white supremacist, barely edging out the runner-up, a cow named Adolf Heifer." She showed a reel of "Steve's greatest hits," adding: "How racist is this live-action Disney villain? For one thing, until recently, he kept a Confederate flag on his desk — even though, again, he's from Iowa, which was on the Union side."
"Steve King is also really into neo-Nazis," Bee said. She made a NSFW slam on King; noted he said Austria's far-right, Nazi-founded party would be part of the Republican coalition; and got a little self-referential: "Oh my God, did Steve King just say Nazis are Republicans? So tomorrow morning when you read the headline 'Samantha Bee says Republicans are Nazis,' remember, I didn't say that! Steve King said it. Now you might be wondering: Why was Steve King even meeting with a Nazi-led party in Austria anyway? Turns out he was on a Holocaust memorial trip." Womp womp.
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