Self-styled “knucklehead” Tim Walz has revealed the absurd codename he lists Vice President Kamala Harris under on his phone since he accidentally ignored her call telling him he was her running mate.
The lefty Minnesota governor told Jimmy Kimmel late Monday that Harris had tried to call him in early August to tell him he was her pick for the Democratic ticket — except he decided not to answer.
“It was an unmarked number so I’m thinking it’s like a car warranty thing,” Walz told Kimmel to laughter from the studio audience.
He only took the life-changing call when he “got a call from a high-ranking aide” who “said, ‘Pick up your dang phone,’” he recalled.
Kimmel asked if Harris was now saved in his phone contacts to avoid further missed calls — with Walz revealing she was, albeit under a bizarre pseudonym.
When Kimmel pressed Walz about what name she’s under in his contacts, he candidly confessed: “My dry cleaner.”
“They told me to come up with something and that was all I could think of,” Walz said, shrugging.
Kimmel asked him what would happen if Walz’s actual dry cleaner needed to let him know his suit was ready.
“I didn’t think that far ahead,” he admitted.
The late-night host joked that Walz should change his dry cleaner’s contact to “Madam Vice President.”
Walz’s appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” comes less than a week after the Midwesterner struggled in the vice presidential debate against Donald Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance.
He notably stumbled when he was asked about reports that he lied about having been in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre in the spring of 1989.
Walz admitted the following day that he “got his dates wrong.”
