Well, it does seem like a comedian’s wet dream.
On Wednesday, stand-up comic Heather McMahan explained to the Daily Beast’s podcast “Obsessed” how she got a lot of good material — and a few NSFW photos — after getting swept up in a very silly MAGA controversy.
The anti-Trump comedian began by admitting the obvious — she does look like a conservative woman.
“I’m like, why do people think I’m MAGA?” McMahan told the podcast. “And then I’m like, look at me. I’m always dolled to the nines; I always have a full drag beat on; I’m from Georgia; I live in Atlanta; I went to school in Mississippi. Like, I’m giving ‘Blindside.’”
The comedian is actually a vocal critic of Donald Trump and praised CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins during an interview earlier this year for how she handled herself when the president criticized her for not smiling enough.
But due to her look, it was easy for people to think McMahan was a Trump supporter when her emcee gig at the 2025 Ryder Cup, the biennial men’s golf competition between the United States and Europe, went completely sideways.
While hosting the event last year in Long Island, New York, she decided to join the “rowdy” and “feral” crowd in a chant — and “immediately” got fired after doing it, McMahan said.
“The audience started to chant, ‘Fuck you, Rory,’ about Rory McIlroy,” she said of the Northern Irish golf star. “I repeated it because I thought it was — I was like, this is insane.”
Earlier in the interview, McMahan admitted that she only took the job because she’s a “huge golf fan” and didn’t really know what was expected of her, so when she joined the chant, she was just trying “to keep the crowd engaged.”
“The irony of it is I’m like the biggest Rory McIlroy fan,” she said.
Trump had attended the tournament the day before McMahan, she told “Obsessed.” So the British media — which had an ax to grind after she insulted McIlroy — assumed she was a Trump supporter, and all hell broke loose.
“I think if a man had been in my position, he would have been given a purple medal of honor and, you know, $2 million in cryptocurrency and then got to go visit the White House,” McMahan joked. “Where I was, like, publicly shunned for three days.”
“I was getting death threats from the European fans because they thought I was MAGA,” she explained. “And then the MAGA guys stateside were sending me love letters and dick pics, and that is scary.”
McMahan then looked directly at the camera, pointed and repeated for emphasis: “I’m gonna say right now, very scary.”
She added that although Instagram and TikTok DMs have filters, these MAGA men “were really able to fight through the filters. And so I was getting a lot of interesting stuff for a couple of weeks.”
“Obsessed” then asked if it was true she’d received an unsolicited and “very scary” photo from MAGA-loving musician Kid Rock.
“That’s a joke! That is a full joke,” she clarified, referring to a crack she’d made in her recent Hulu stand-up special in which she talks about the experience. “No, no, no, no, no … a punch to one of the jokes is that I got a love letter from Kid Rock, but it’s obviously a joke.”
Check out McMahan’s words in full in the video below.