Rep. Katie Porter, who went viral for conspicuously reading a book titled “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F–k” during the protracted battle for the House speakership, told KNX News it was a coincidence, not an intentional dig at her Republican colleagues.
“I hate to break it to you and to everyone who enjoyed that picture or found some joy in it in a dark moment in our country,” the Orange County Democrat said in an interview Thursday with KNX about the launch of her bid for U.S. Senate.
Porter said she found the book in a box on the street where people exchange used books on her walk to the Capitol on Jan. 3.
“I had already read three books earlier in the week because I had spent many, many hours on the house floor, and so I was simply reading that book.”
Pressed on whether it could really be a coincidence, Porter doubled down.
“I was out of books, so that was the remaining book that I had in my apartment, and I just couldn’t bear to sit there and fiddle with my phone during what I thought would be and was in fact, a very late night,” she said.
Porter, however, did not pass up the opportunity to draw parallels between the book’s themes and the speakership debacle. “There are a lot of good lessons in that book,” she said. “There are struggles and pain along the way, and the solution to feeling better about those struggles is being sure the thing you’re fighting for is worth it, and I certainly feel that way about our democracy, and it was certainly a good reminder in that moment.”
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