Last night’s January 6 hearing presented an unflinching account of Donald Trump‘s sketchy behavior in the hours after he riled up his mob, but the primetime broadcast provided one moment of levity as viewers discussed the Clark Kent doppelgänger seated behind witnesses Matthew Pottinger and Sarah Matthews.
The mysterious look-a-like soon started trending across social media.
It's 4:06 a.m. Pacific time and I can find no evidence that anyone has discovered the identity of the tall drink of water still only known as "guy behind Pottinger." Maybe it's better this way. #BehindPottinger pic.twitter.com/62rURJqvaX
— Teri (@WomenInTheBurbs) July 22, 2022
In my mind, he's naughty Clark Kent.#ClarkKent#January6thHearing pic.twitter.com/yQLDNAWkPL
— Kye (@MistressKye) July 22, 2022
Next came a tidal wave of jokes that he was obviously there to cover the hearings for The Daily Planet. It’s low-hanging fruit and countless hands reached out to pick it.
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One gay viewer put things into perspective, tweeting: “Being gay and on Twitter means that you have zero idea if American democracy will survive but you do know that there was a very attractive guy with Clark Kent glasses at the latest January 6th hearing.”
Being gay and on Twitter means that you have zero idea if American democracy will survive but you do know that there was a very attractive guy with Clark Kent glasses at the latest January 6th hearing
— Grant Ginder (@GrantGinder) July 22, 2022
Plenty of others didn’t see what all the fuss was about:
Forget Clark Kent, this lady had me going. She was judging them all. ? https://t.co/OSx6AOhHB1
— Lily J ??? ??????????? (@LiliJAzrael) July 22, 2022
Everyone’s talking about the Clark Kent guy from last night’s #January6thHearing but some of us who are of a certain age were thirsty for the Trudeau-ish gentleman behind Matthew Pottinger ? pic.twitter.com/zzN0r81QSe
— Tara Dublin (@taradublinrocks) July 22, 2022
THIS is the man y’all calling Clark Kent and going crazy over???? He is just a white man with an astigmatism!!!!! pic.twitter.com/Fqv3yx9aTp
— Meech (@MediumSizeMeech) July 22, 2022
Many viewers put on their sleuthing hats to try to figure out the man’s identity, or at least his party affiliation.
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“The rumor is Clark Kent walked out with the blonde lady who was a witness. That means he’s probably a repub & now my heart is breaking. Why Clark why? You could have been so beautiful,” one person wrote.
The rumor is Clark Kent walked out with the blonde lady who was a witness.
That means he's probably a repub & now my heart is breaking. ???
Why Clark why? You could have been so beautiful.— Gov. Kay Ivey's Lil Smith & Wesson (@CatLadyCrazy23) July 22, 2022
Others agreed that it appeared he exited with Sarah Matthews, the former Trump administration deputy White House press secretary who quit on Jan. 6. She said she was “deeply disturbed” by what she witnessed that day.
“Jan. 6, 2021, was one of the darkest days in our nation’s history,” the self-described lifelong Republican told the committee.
Journalist Yashar Ali suggested he knows the man’s identity, but did not reveal it.
“The good looking man sitting behind Pottinger is not single. That’s all I will say and that’s all you need to know!” he tweeted.
The good looking man sitting behind Pottinger is not single.
That’s all I will say and that’s all you need to know!
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) July 22, 2022
TMZ says they’ve identified him as 23-year-old Alex Wollet, a med school student from Ohio who’s currently doing a fellowship at The National Institutes of Health.
Case closed?
bachy
Plastic White Ken Dolls seldom have enough… funk… to trigger my lust reaction.
SDR94103
nobody gives a damn about your funk. funk off.
RyanMBecker
Oh? If I’m not mistaken, Ken Doll describes someone who is vapid. The very fact that he’s at a congressional hearing indicates that he’s not vapid. And news that he might be a medical student completely smashes your comment. In fact, your comment says more about your superficiality than anything about him. For some reason, you just focused on his looks, and then passed judgment on that alone. Sounds like you’re the Ken Doll, but probably without the looks
dbmcvey
How many Ken dolls have fellowships at the NIH?
Scout
Very handsome man! He could certainly be a model, but he might want to get the cyst on his forehead removed.
Norm
POP IT, POP IT!
alstdw
I was thinking the same thing! Without it, he would be the epitome of perfection!
Jimmer
He should go to Dr. Pimple Popper; she’ll take care of that cyst.
I noticed him during the Today show so this thread gave me a good laugh. Nice to know I still have taste, yum!
MISTERJETT
well, i think Adam Kinzinger is adorable.
Diplomat
Did u know he’s only 3 feet tall?
MISTERJETT
@Diplomat, did you know that i’m not so shallow as to care how tall he is?
Diplomat
No big. Ewoks are adorable. You should try and date him.
butchqueen
BACK OFF BITCH! Adam, this hot piece of ass, and I are gonna have tree way anal!!
ShiningSex
Ok he is not all that. That pimple on his forehead!!! LOL!!!
Also, yeah this is what’s important to gay men????????? Not the trial????? Really????? Ridiculous!!!!
Agility
Gurl. We can do both.
Kangol2
ShiningSex, this isn’t a trial, it’s a Congressional hearing! The trials will occur when the Department of Justice decides to indict the traitors involved in Don the Con’s attempted coup, including the psychopathic insecure mastermind himself, Don the Con.
dbmcvey
A pimple on his forehead? Oh God! It’s hideous!
I can walk and chew gum. Practice!
MISTERJETT
most humans at one time or another get a pimple. am i to assume you never have?
joe
He is wearing a name badge. How hard is it to identify him. Do people who see him and read the badge not know there is a connection?
RyanMBecker
I don’t believe that’s a name badge. I think it’s just an admittance pass without his name. I’ve gone to many medical conferences, including ones at the NIH, where I wore similar passes with no name.
LifeinShaw
So HOT! He’s shut down all of his social media now that his name has been published.
RyanMBecker
Yeah, but he can’t shut down archival stuff. You can see him as a Catholic high school basketball player. And his sister has posted family photos.
misterX
He is a republican 🙁
Essie
As a lady of a certain age, this guy reminds me of John Dean’s wife (I think her name was Maureen) at the Watergate hearings. She was a beautiful, cold, blonde with her hair pulled tightly back in a bun, who never moved while sitting there through all of Dean’s testimony. Even without twitter, et al., she became a sensation. Luckily, when everything was over, she decided to return to the life of WIFE. Never actually heard about her again. My point being, there always seems to be someone at these types of things who stand out for a minute and then disappear. No need to know this guy’s name.
RyanMBecker
Hah! Our viewing party thought the same thing. In fact, one friend is making a video of hot guys (and women) from the hearings, and Clark Kent’s prolonged appearance is dominating the video. Others on the video include Nicholas Luna and Judd Deere — both Trump staffers, unfortunately. Deere is especially damning, since he’s openly gay but an unapologetic Trump defender. He’s said that he doesn’t give a damn what the LGBT community thinks of him.
Diplomat
He’s one of a huge growing crowd that doesn’t give a rats ass nor wants to be associated with the diluted woke lgbtq community.
Kangol2
After watching Judd Deere’s testimony, it seemed like something was missing between his ears. Very severe face, not a looker like Dr.-to-be Wollet.
RyanMBecker
When I saw him, I just assumed that he was Nicholas Luna, wearing glasses. Google Luna, and see if you see a resemblance. There’s at least one photo of Luna with glasses.
Luna was not only a political adviser, but he’s also an actor with a SAG membership (and IMDB page!). So yeah, he’s good looking.
okiloki
Nicholas Luna is very average looking. This guy is much better looking.
RyanMBecker
Some say that he’s a Republican. I don’t know about that but he did graduate from a Catholic high school. If you want to see more of him, sans glasses, go to the NY Post and Daily Mail articles. Yes, they’re trashy tabloids but this is fluff, so tabloids make the best sources. The NY Post links his high school basketball photos, where he looked kinda like Colton Haynes on that homoerotic cover that he tried to quash. Love the Justin Bieber haircut. The Daily Mail has a hot photo of him in a plaid shirt, and another one of him in a pink T-shirt and shorts. Love a guy who can wear pink. He looks completely smooth.
For what it’s worth, there’s a good chance that I will meet him. He’s doing a neuroscience fellowship and my research is in neuroelectrophysiology (my day job; night job is gay porn analyst. No kidding). I’m in several NIH projects so it’s likely that we’ll cross paths at conferences. Who knows … I may “accidentally” walk into the wrong hotel room just as I hear the shower running…
Diplomat
Google has all the pix
Joshua333
He’s republican so he has a micro dick, calm down you thirsty bitches.
Neoprene
Bland.
bachy
My thoughts exactly. If he were on a tv show his role would be: “Office worker #4”
Brian
This is creepy. So he’s just some random guy that millions of people tried to harass?
I’m old enough to remember landline phones. Running around outside, playing. Nobody carried a camera everywhere they went — that would’ve been a red flag! — and certainly nobody was sending photos of strangers all around the globe.
If this man was an accomplice to the crimes, then prosecute him. If he’s innocent, leave him alone.
Eternal.Cowboy
Okay Boomer. You probably remember books called Dictionaries that people used to look up words. Grab one and look up the word harassment because you don’t know what it means.
The guy went to a televised hearing that was broadcast around the world. They actually had these when you were busy calling people on your lane line. So there is literally nothing new or different happening here others than the medium by which people are commenting on a public hearing.
I’m guessing you still have a VCR that blinks 12:00.
Dingleberry
Listen up, fellas! You better re-read the Tweet by Yashar Ali…he sounds like he might be a jealous lover of Clark Kent’s!
Paulie P
Alex Wollet was sitting in on the Jan. 6th hearing … but made headlines of his own when he was dubbed “Clark Kent” for his superhero good looks!
Diplomat
The face. The shoulders. He looks like prefect AI.
Joseph1971
Give me “clark kent look-a-like” or give me death!.
I don’t care if he is straight, his address, email address, cell phone number is all I need for him to switch to the “dark side”.