The post is false. Walz helped coach a varsity high school football team, and he was not fired from the job because of a DUI.

Walz first coached football and girls basketball at Alliance High School in Nebraska. He and his wife, Gwen, moved to Minnesota (her home state) in 1996 and Walz taught social studies and was the defensive coordinator for the football team at Mankato West High School.

Walz then segued into how the high school students he once taught and the athletes he previously coached all knew that “you play hard, the other team plays hard and after the ga

Comfortable in khakis and an open collar, Walz couldn’t be more different from JD Vance, the awkward man in a boxy suit and an overly long tie. Instead of talking about ‘threats to democracy’, Harris’s running-mate made a football analogy about January 6th — and it went down a storm.

Donald Trump shared an anecdote on Fox's Gutfeld about a call with Governor Walz. Walz called Trump during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, concerned about MAGA supporters. Trump said the group,

On the road with Tim Walz as he tests out new Trump attack lines - Comfortable in khakis and an open collar, Walz couldn’t be more different from JD Vance, the awkward man in a boxy suit and an overly long tie.

The Independent published a feature with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. While at a field office in East Macon, GA, he reacted to what the FBI called an “apparent assassination attempt” on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.