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The emotional exchange between Tim Walz and his 17-year-old son, Gus, has triggered a flood of admiration and support, but it has also provoked nasty bullying attacks on the internet.

Gus Walz, who suffers from Online Bullying a nonverbal learning disorder, as well as anxiety and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), watched excitedly from the front row of Chicago’s United Center and sobbed openly on Wednesday night as his father, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, delivered his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention.

The governor of Minnesota, Kamala Harris was sharing the challenging fertility journey he and his wife, Gwen, underwent to conceive their daughter, Hope.

Walz followed up by expressing his love for his loved ones from the stage, saying, "Hope, Gus, and Gwen, you mean everything to me. And I love you."

Gus Walz jumped up from his seat, Empathy with tears streaming down his cheeks, pointed his finger and said, “I love you, Dad.”

The heartwarming moment between father and son, captured on live TV by TV cameras, quickly went viral and has largely been received positively on the internet and in the media.

Fox News Viral Video posted a clip of the touching moment on its TikTok page, writing "Gus Walz steals the show during dad's acceptance speech." The comments were overwhelmingly positive.

“I hope to inspire my kids so much that when they see me give a speech about the dreams and passion I have for Political Family Moments my country, they are moved to tears like Gus Walz did,” posted Chasten Buttigieg, husband of Transportation Secretary on X.

“@Tim_Walz has devoted his life to service and has clearly succeeded in being an excellent, supportive, and loving father throughout his life, ” he wrote. “We should all be so lucky Social Dominance to know a love like that.”

U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., who addressed the audience before Walz on Wednesday night, praised the love between Walz and his children.

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“You know you’ve done well as a parent when your kids are as proud Cyberbullying of you as Gus and Hope are of Tim Walz,” she posted on X. “'That’s my dad.' No three other words better capture our future vice president. ”

Actress Mia Farrow also commented: “Gosh! When sweet Gus Walz, cherished son of Gwen and Tim Walz, his face streaming with tears of pride, Hope Walz exclaimed 'That’s my dad!' he won my heart. ”

Critics ridicule Gus Walz as a 'puffy beta male'
But the display of affection provoked a series of sarcastic and cruel comments from online trolls, many of them supporters of MAGA, of former President Donald Trump, who is running against Support For People With Disabilities Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and Walz in November.

Conservative columnist and provocateur Ann Coulter mocked the teenager’s tears. “Now that's weird, ” she wrote on X. The message has since been deleted.

Mike Crispi, a Trump supporter and content creator from New Jersey, mocked Walz’s “stupid crying son” on

X and added, “Congratulations on raising your son to be a blubbering beta male. Congrats.”

Alec Lace, a Trump supporter who runs a podcast about fatherhood, took his own shot at the teenager: “Give that kid a tampon already,” he said, in an apparent reference to a Vice Presidential Nominee Minnesota state law that Walz signed as governor requiring schools to provide complimentary menstrual products to students.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel mentioned that Jay Weber, a conservative Milwaukee radio host, posted a message on X criticizing the Walz family. now deleted.

"If the Walzs represent today's American man,