The person who raised a soul-searching question about exorbitant parts has been questioned themselves.

Mike Walz, who recently became widely known online for questioning the “sky-high parts,” has recently been scared off by others’ questions.

On the 23rd, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Walz stated in an interview that Japan and other countries had responded to President Trump’s call and would send warships to the Strait of Hormuz during the US-Iran conflict.

However, just a few hours after the interview aired, Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Kihara Toshiro refuted this claim, saying Japan had not made such a commitment.

In addition to being “called out” by Japan, Walz has recently contributed several humorous moments. At the start of the Middle East conflict, Walz solemnly accused Iran at the United Nations of threatening U.S. security, claiming that U.S. military strikes on Iran were “self-defense and retaliation.”

Yet, just a few days later, Trump stated that the attack was “initiated by the United States,” leading Walz to be questioned about why the U.S. had such inconsistent statements.

On March 20th, when a college student working part-time at a restaurant asked Walz why the taxes he worked hard to pay were being used by the U.S. government to attack a country thousands of miles away, Walz defended this billion-dollar operation, saying it was to “care for and protect the younger generation.”

Many people noticed the expression on the student’s face after hearing the answer, with many netizens mocking, “That’s the same look I have when I’m speechless; this answer is too pathetic.”

The strong reaction from American netizens is because, two years ago, Walz went viral online for a video about a “sky-high $90k parts.”

In April 2024, then-U.S. Congressman Walz held up a bag of metal sleeves during a hearing on U.S. military budget, asking Air Force Secretary Kendall, “How much do you think the U.S. Air Force paid for these?”

When the other side claimed they didn’t know, Walz angrily waved the small bag and said, “This is a bag of sleeves worth $90k.” He then sharply criticized that these parts had no technical content, and similar quality parts could be bought on the market for about $100, yet the U.S. military’s procurement costs were hundreds of times higher. This dramatic inquiry quickly went viral, earning Walz widespread praise.

In 2025, Walz was appointed as the U.S. National Security Advisor, and many supportive netizens expected him to take the “parts-raising” attitude and effectively address various issues in American politics.

However, some netizens found from a 2021 report by the U.S. investigative news site “The Intercept” that Walz also seems to be “not so clean” when it comes to military corruption and waste.

In 2012, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the military launched a plan called the “Task Force for Business and Stability Operations” (TFBSO), claiming to promote employment through developing commercial projects in Afghanistan and reduce local armed resistance against the U.S. Due to mismanagement, TFBSO was involved in scandals such as “spending $6 million to airlift a few goats” and “spending $43 million to build a gas station,” allowing many military insiders to profit.

Among the funds obtained from this “big money-wasting” project was a military contractor called “Medis Solutions,” which applied for $1.8 million in funding under the guise of “training U.S. troops in local mining,” but after receiving the money, provided no substantial services. The founder of this company is Walz himself.

In 2020, Medis was acquired at a high price of $92 million by another military contractor, PAE, which had been involved in multiple scandals over defrauding U.S. military funds. Walz earned a huge sum of $26 million from this deal.

Besides questions about his integrity, Walz was soon embroiled in the absurd “White House Group Chat Gate.”

Last March, Walz added President Trump, Defense Secretary Hegseth, and several other senior officials into a social media group to discuss major military operations. As a national security official, he not only failed to encrypt the group chat but also mistakenly added Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, thinking he was a colleague.

Because this mistake was so amateurish, Goldberg thought it was a joke, but upon realizing he had “accidentally intruded,” he exposed the bizarre incident in The Atlantic. Subsequently, Walz resigned in disgrace and was reassigned as the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

Now, Walz frequently makes mistakes in interviews related to Iran. One wonders whether, when he is questioned and makes a series of blunders, he will recall the hearing where he interrogated others.