In a news commentary report put together by YouTube channel “I’ve Had It” this past weekend, podcast hosts and commentators Jennifer Welch & Angie Sullivan explore a rumor alleging that GOP Speaker Mike Johnson maintains a Grindr app account.
In the video, the hosts pull up what looks to be a conversation between Johnson and a visitor to the Washington D.C. area. During the conversation, after a compliment and a few offers from the account allegedly linked to Johnson, the other man points out the lack of photos to trade pleasantries with on the other side.
After adding the reasoning behind having no profile photo, stating “Very discreet here, married with a few kids, Not trying to mess up my situation,” a selfie possibly taken by the speaker appears, revealing himself on the chat log.
While the hosts make it clear that all of the information for the report, taken off of a TikTok video that went viral, is alleged, by the speaker’s own actions against the LGBTQ+ community, there may be something to the possible Grindr connection.
“Now, I want to say I don’t know if this is true or not, but I do want to say that I think that men, alleged straight men, that talk about gay people all the time, I personally believe that that’s very Freudian, and I personally believe that they are probably gay or bi-curious,” Welch reasons. “And so, it’s important for us to dig into the psychology of … Mike Johnson and his wife, Kelly.”
Following her hypothesis, Welch brings up a headline from a 2023 Vanity Fair article, titled “Mike Johnson’s Wife Founded a Company That Equates Being Gay With Bestiality and Incest.”
After putting out a blunt statement about the couple, calling them “F*cking crazy,” Welch then connects how Grindr crashed twice on the weekend of the most recent Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with the possibility of Johnson owning an account.
“But what married woman, that’s getting laid frequently by their husband, thinks about gay sex and then equates it to bestiality, and then thinks that they are a normal person?,” Welch asks her podcast partner.
“Well, obviously these two, because they are nutballs,” quips Sullivan. “But interestingly enough, you know, you have the covenant eyes swapping porn and the kids. Everything is about staying away from sex [and] staying away from gay people. I’m with you, when you are talking about it all the time, you’re trying to convince yourself, there’s just no question about it.”
“When you’re talking about it all the time, you’re trying to convince yourself. There’s just no question about it. People secure in their sexuality, whether it’s homosexuality, heterosexuality, or bisexuality, they aren’t talking about it all the time.”
Around the same time as the Vanity Fair piece, Kelly Johnson had more than a few spotlight articles written about her. The website Americans United had published an investigative article surrounding Kelly and her Christian counseling organization, named “Onward Christian Counseling,” which is said to specialize in conversion therapy among its practices. As is highlighted by the article, Kelly Johnson holds no medical certifications, making her center not one that provides accredited therapy.
Welch and Sullivan’s YouTube podcast channel, “I’ve Had It,” drops episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays, while their additional broadcasts under “IHIP News” run daily with shorter videos. The channel is known for its LGBTQ+ friendly content as well as the hosts’ razor-sharp commentary on political pop culture.