That is one wild journey to the dentist — and never in that good, nitrous-fueled approach.
In a surprising viral video that has the web buzzing, a California dentist is catching main warmth for joking (she insists it was simply joking) that she adjusts affected person care primarily based on their political views. Yep. You learn that proper.
Dr. Harleen Grewal — higher recognized to some in Santa Clarita because the self-branded “MAGA Dentist” — is beneath fireplace after a TikTok clip surfaced this week that confirmed her giving a political speech during which she mocked a few of her sufferers who aren’t followers of Donald Trump.
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At one second within the clip, Dr. Grewal recollects how some sufferers react to the political decor in her workplace, which features a “Wall of Fame” that includes Trump and different main Republican figures. She stated within the clip:
“I get sufferers that come into my workplace, and after they see the photographs, you’d assume their butt was on fireplace. They leap off and take off as if Trump was coming within the room.”
However she didn’t cease there. She went on to mock sufferers who complain about costs, earlier than taking a jab at previous president Joe Biden‘s administration:
“How’s Bidenomics working for you?”
She additionally stated that again in the course of the peak of COVID-19, she supposedly most popular having fewer sufferers — as long as the lacking ones have been Democrats. In response to her, it was a blessing when these people have been masked up and staying residence.
However the line that actually despatched jaws dropping was a line in regards to the remedy a few of her anti-Trump sufferers get. Prepared for it? She stated:
“I’ve a secret hat I take advantage of typically. It says, ‘Make your smile nice once more.’ I put on that once I work on my sufferers so after they look horrified or complain, I quietly reduce on the laughing fuel and say, ‘You bought this. It’s not as dangerous as you assume it’s.’”
The backlash got here swiftly, with many on TikTok and elsewhere accusing the dentist of crossing an moral line.
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Now, FWIW, native SoCal information outlet KTLA caught up with Dr. Grewal as she was leaving her follow one night this week and requested her to elucidate herself. She stood by her statements by brushing them off as jokes. Actually, she stated that she had already been investigated by the California Dental Board, which discovered no wrongdoing.
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Then, in a follow-up opinion piece she penned within the Santa Clarita Valley Sign, the dentist claimed this was simply one other case of cancel tradition, and that her “phrases have been twisted.”
In response to Grewal, she was talking on the Republican Liberty Gala, an occasion tied to the Santa Clarita Republican Celebration, the place she was this 12 months’s title sponsor. And she or he isn’t backing down. In any respect. Within the op-ed, she wrote:
“Once you get up, communicate out and make a distinction, there are individuals who will attempt to tear you down. However right here’s the reality: It solely works if you happen to let it. And I refuse to let it.”
Dr. Grewal has leaned all the way in which into her political id, too. She’s been advertising her follow with heavy MAGA branding together with Trump-themed merch, crimson hats with the slogan “Drill Child Drill,” and pictures of her alongside Trump-world figures like Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
What do YOU assume? Is it acceptable to joke about one thing like this? Or is it a giant crimson flag?
[Image via MEGA/WENN/TikTok]
