Republican Rep. Steve King mistook a character from a movie as a real veteran in a tweet.On Thursday morning, Ken Klippenstein, a Young Turks reporter, tweeted at King with a picture of Jack Nicholson as his character in the movie, “A Few Good Men.” “Sir, can I get a retweet for my uncle Col. Nathan Jessup, he’s in the Marines and spending the 4th overseas keeping our country safe,” Klippenstein said with the picture.King responded, “Colonel Jessup and all your Marines: God Bless you all!”After King responded, Klippenstein renamed his profile “Steve King is a white supremacist,” allowing the new name to show next to King’s response on Twitter. King has since deleted the tweet.

Republican Rep. Steve King mistook a character from a movie as a real veteran in a tweet.

On Thursday morning, Ken Klippenstein, a Young Turks reporter, tweeted at King with a picture of Jack Nicholson as his character in the movie, “A Few Good Men.”


“Sir, can I get a retweet for my uncle Col. Nathan Jessup, he’s in the Marines and spending the 4th overseas keeping our country safe,” Klippenstein said with the picture.

King responded, “Colonel Jessup and all your Marines: God Bless you all!”

After King responded, Klippenstein renamed his profile “Steve King is a white supremacist,” allowing the new name to show next to King’s response on Twitter.

King has since deleted the tweet.