Eighties sitcom star and whinging conservative Scott Baio has kept up a pretty full schedule since his wife Renee Baio called Jezebel staffers “lesbian shitasses” back in 2010.
Baio says that he has met Donald Trump—whom he endorsed in March, saying “He speaks like I speak, he communicates with people very well”—a total of six times, most recently at a dinner last evening, where an excited Renee and Scott took a bunch of very up-close photos of Trump while they were speaking with him. Recently, Bio got into a fight with Starbucks after a barista refused to say the name “Trump,” which he evidently gave them rather than his own. In May, he told Greta Van Susteren that Jennifer Lawrence, who does not support Trump, needs to “read a book or two” (he did not clarify which books).
Baio tweeted that he would be making an appearance at the Republican National Convention as a California delegate, but Renee is battling meningioma brain tumors:
(UPDATE: Scott Baio announced over the weekend that he will be speaking at the RNC.)
Scott Baio presumably loves Donald Trump because he takes issue with immigrants, minorities, and poor people (and thinks Hillary Clinton is a cunt) but more broadly, it would seem, because Donald Trump and this election in general has given Scott Baio’s Twitter feed—once a more generalized spew of racism and self-aggrandizement—newfound purpose.
Just this week, Baio was gifted with a pair of Donald Trump socks, which he will likely wear quite often: