A Minnesota congressman flipped the script at a House committee hearing Wednesday — accidentally appearing upside down on video in the latest in a series of Zoom fails gone viral.
The technological snafu by GOP Rep. Tom Emmer — seen upside down on camera during the House Financial Services Committee meeting — garnered quite a few snickers.
“Will the gentleman suspend?” committee chairwoman Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) interrupted Emmer as he discussed job security during COVID-19.
“I’m sorry, Mr. Emmer — are you OK?” she asked him as their colleagues audibly chuckled in the background.
“I am,” he replied.
“You’re upside down, Tom,” someone pointed out.
Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) got stuck upside down in the middle of a virtual House Financial Services meeting.
“I don’t know how to fix that,” Emmer admitted.
During the topsy-turvy episode, someone else humorously asked, “Is this a metaphor?” Another joked that Emmer was doing a headstand.
“You’re going viral, Tom!” someone shouted at him.
Rep. Tom Emmer seen when not on an upside-down Zoom filter. Omar Rawlings/Getty Images for SiriusXMEmmer’s minor mishap comes on the heels of Texas lawyer Rod Ponton — who inadvertently used the cat filter on Zoom during a virtual court hearing and then went viral.
“I’m here live. I’m not a cat,” Ponton fumbled to the judge.
Another screengrab of Rep. Tom Emmer stuck upside down in the middle of a virtual House Financial Services Committee meeting.
A clearly amused Emmer tweeted later Wednesday a screenshot of his upside-down face with the caption, “I am not a cat.”
