Adam Kinzinger calls House’s new speaker ‘Jim Jordan that wears a suit jacket’

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) didn’t hold back when he was asked about the newly elected House Speaker, calling Mike Johnson (R-LA) a “Jim Jordan that wears a suit jacket.”

The former congressman made the remark on The View while promoting his new book, Renegade, which details the story of his dealings with the Jan. 6 Capitol protests and his decision to vote for impeachment of Trump.

Kinzinger added that he was glad that House Republicans said no to making Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) the House speaker but was not expecting the same treatment to be given to Johnson, who, like Jordan, leans very conservatively.

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“Look, I was actually impressed that the so-called moderates and the GOP, moderates in tone, that they actually opposed Jim Jordan,” I thought they would have capitulated. They stood it out, and that was good, and that was good for the country. The problem is, I knew once they named Mike Johnson that like they weren’t going to do it twice, right? Just everybody was exhausted, and they wanted a speaker.”

Many Democrats and centrist Republicans have expressed concern about Johnson’s conservatism, with MSNBC anchor Jen Psaki describing the Louisiana Republican as a “wolf in a suit jacket” and a “true Trump believer.”

Kinzinger has criticized Jordan in the past when he was House Republicans’s initial choice to be speaker, claiming that Jordan is “not a great communicator.”

The former congressman also discussed former President Donald Trump, in which he compared Trump to his 2-year-old child, noting that it is hard for him and his wife to discipline his child “when he has his outbursts.”

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“And I mean, what this shows is a person that can’t control his emotions,” Kinzinger said. “And it’s fine if you want to be a human being that can’t control your emotion; you shouldn’t be president of the United States if you can’t control your outbursts and your emotions, and I think when this gag order is reinstated, he’s going to violate it again and ultimately the question is is he going to jail.”

Since leaving Congress, Kinzinger has become a senior political commentator for CNN.