George Santos vows “I’ll be back” in “bombshell” Ziwe interview

In his much-touted interview with comedian Ziwe, George Santos vowed to one day return to the U.S. House of Representatives.  

“I’ll be back. I’m 35. They’re all in their 50s. I’ll outlive them, each and last one of them,” the disgraced former congressman said of his former colleagues.

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Since he was expelled from Congress earlier this month following a damning report from the Senate Ethics Committee, it has become abundantly clear that Santos, who has been charged with 23 counts including wire fraud and identity theft, has no intention of retreating from the spotlight.

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Over the weekend, Ziwe teased a “bombshell” interview with Santos. During their conversation, which dropped today on the comedian’s official YouTube channel, Ziwe asked what the American public can do to get him to “go away.”

“Stop inviting me to your gigs,” Santos pointedly replied. “But you can’t, cause people want the content.”

Santos’s seemingly pathological lack of shame was on full display throughout the interview, in which he giggled and bantered with Ziwe, embracing the label of “messy b***h.” He admitted to not knowing who James Baldwin and Harvey Milk are, asserted that a film about him in development at HBO was never going to happen, gleefully quoted Nikik Minaj lyrics, defended MAGA Republicans Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA), and admitted that he couldn’t define empathy while insisting that he has it.

A message at the top of the video noted that Santos requested to be paid for the interview three times, but Ziwe and her team refused.

Ahead of the interview’s premiere, Santos told the Washington Post that he didn’t remember much from his chat with Ziwe.

“Being very frank with you,” he said, “it’s just so much of drinking out of a fire hose that I don’t remember this interview anymore.”

“Obviously, she’s a comedian, right? She came for me,” he said. “She had funny puns, and you know she was witty with it. But I want to think that I held my own. And I had fun with it, too. And, you know, I clapped back a little bit. It was an interesting, different type of environment that I’ve grown accustomed to with the political teams, The Washington Post and CNN and all of them.”

“I was inclined to rip off of her character, which almost felt like a character for me because I was playing off of her, very like, straight stone-cold b***c character,” he explained. “So that almost made me feel like I had to match her energy and being a little d**k myself, you know, but not necessarily saying that I created an entire persona for the interview.”