Marianne Williamson mocked after joking about learning Spanish: 'Como se dice "vaccinate your children"'

Will the next president be bilingual? Wednesday’s first Democratic debate saw presidential candidates like Cory Booker, Beto O’Rourke and Julián Castro putting their Spanish-speaking skills to good use.

Booker’s apparent side-eye at a similarly bilingual O’Rourke is already the stuff of memes, while many are joking that the pressure is on for the next round of candidates who will take part in Thursday’s debate.

One of those candidates, Marianne Williamson, quipped that she needed to pick up the language by the time she took the stage Thursday night.

Plenty of her followers appreciated the joke, but the author and spiritual adviser also opened herself up to some jabs mocking her stance on vaccinations. After calling mandatory vaccinations “draconian and Orwellian” during a campaign stop last week, Williamson apologized and said she “misspoke,” though she continued to air her doubts about “big pharma.”

“First of all, I am not anti-vaccine,” she said during an appearance on The View last Thursday.“I think I misspoke in that one sentence.”

“But I will say this: if I were president of the United States — when I’m president of the United States — there would be a commission of scientists learning so that the American people see what’s going on with these vaccines who are not paid by big pharma,” she continued.

“I understand that public safety must come first,” she added. “But I also understand that we must have a balance between public safety and the issue of individual freedom. I do not trust the propaganda on either side.”

Despite her insistence that she supports vaccines, Williamson’s comments have fueled accusations that she is also a vaccine skeptic. Earlier this week, her campaign issued a statement trying to clarify her position.

Even so, her tweet has fetched responses like these:

All jokes aside, author Roxane Gay was among those who found the candidates’ grasp of Spanish refreshing. Time to get on Duolingo, folks?

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