George Lopez fights Trump supporter at Hooters, grabs his neck in video

Comedian George Lopez got into a scuffle with a man who taunted him with his in-your-face support for President Trump at a New Mexico Hooters, according to reports.

A 15-second cellphone video obtained by TMZ captured the altercation Sunday in Las Cruces, where the Mexican-American comic is shooting the upcoming faith-based flick “Walking with Herb.”

“Here comes my boy, George,” the man says, looking into his phone as Lopez walks by. “Jorge Lopez!”

“Posting more bulls–t?” the comedian says before grabbing the phone.

“He’s a badass! Look at him, he wants to fight me!” the man says as Lopez appears to go for his neck. “George wants to fight me!”

According to TMZ, a source close to the comedian said the heckler had been in Lopez’s face all night, making pro-Trump statements and yelling “MAGA!”

Lopez, 57, has openly expressed his disdain for the president. He was recently filmed simulating his urination onto Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, according to CBS Los Angeles.

The man in the video told TMZ that Lopez initially took away his phone and tried to film his own crotch but never hit record.

He said that after Lopez returned the phone, the man tried to cut the tension by telling the comedian, “On the count of three, say ‘Make America Great Again.’” At that point, the video starts, he said.

Las Cruces police spokesman Dan Trujillo said Tuesday that authorities are looking into the incident, according to the Las Cruces Sun News.

Hooters manager Robert Ruiz said he was working Sunday and that he recognized the taunter because the man was involved in a scuffle at another restaurant Ruiz managed last year.

“(The man) tried to go over there and take pictures (with the ‘Walking with Herb’ crew) but they were eating,” Ruiz said. “We told him to wait and he stood in the front (of the restaurant) the whole time.”

Lopez’s jokes about Trump have not always been welcomed.

While performing at a benefit gala in Denver in 2017 to honor the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes, he was asked to stop mocking the president and was booed off stage by donors when he continued.