FBI Director Kash Patel managed to confuse many, many users on X with a bizarre response to a video featuring Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.).
A video posted Thursday on the social media platform showed Schiff accusing Patel of being “incompetent,” and “firing all the competent people” before remarking, “How can you respect someone like Patel? ... You can take an internet troll and make him FBI director, but he’s still not gonna be anything more than an internet troll.”
Although Patel could have responded to the video by explaining why he’s not as incompetent as Schiff claimed ― or not responded at all (that’s a thing too) — he decided the best plan of action was a weird combination of being insulting AND cryptic.
And, yes, he responded by posting a watermelon emoji 12 times.
Apparently, Patel’s use of a watermelon was a call back to April, when his fearless leader, Donald Trump, referred to Schiff as “watermelon head.”
