A self-proclaimed \u201cMAGA Dentist\u201d is facing backlash after a video of her joking about turning down pain-relieving gas for liberal patients at her Santa Clarita clinic blew up online.<\/p>\n
Dr. Harleen Grewal of Skyline Smiles made this quip and other wisecracks about her distaste for left-leaning clients during a speech at the Republican Liberty Gala in 2021, comments that recently attracted mass attention after a video of the speech went viral on TikTok. That video has since been taken down, but recorded versions<\/a> of it and response videos<\/a> criticizing Grewal continue to circulate. <\/p>\n \u201cI have a secret hat I use sometimes, it says, \u2018Make your smile great again,\u2019\u201d she said at the gala. \u201cSo I wear that when I work with my patients, when they look horrified or complain, I quietly cut back on the laughing gas.\u201d<\/p>\n In the address, she also jokes about missing the days when \u201cthe Dems stayed home during COVID with their masks on\u201d as well as liberals\u2019 reaction when they see the photo wall of Republican leaders in the office: \u201cYou\u2019d think their butt was on fire. They jump up and take off as if Trump was coming in the room.\u201d<\/p>\n The comments were met with laughter within the context of the Republican gala but have been met with outrage on the internet as well as calls to report Grewal to the California Dental Board.<\/p>\n \u201cDental care by a dentist who acknowledges that she doesn\u2019t control your pain based on your political party? How does she have a license to practice?\u201d wrote one person in a Yelp post.<\/p>\n