NZ PM John Key’s Hammer Fail Goes Viral

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key is not at all handy with woodwork, and that is evident in the new gif that is fast becoming viral. The Kiwi leader admitted that his wife Bronagh “gets a man in” whenever they need something fixed in their house.

While on a campaign trail in Whangarei over the weekend, Mr Key tried to help National candidate Mark Osborne put up his billboard for the by-election, only he wasn’t really helpful. The funny moment was capture on tape, in which the PM is seen trying but failing to hammer a nail down several times.

The GIF has been viewed over 1 million times since it was uploaded on Imgur.com on Sunday. See the GIF here.

The continuous clip’s popularity prompted the PM to address it on Tuesday, telling reporters, “It was a shocker, eh?” The GIF has inspired net users to post nail and hammer-related puns online.

“Bronagh gets a man in,” Mr Key revealed when asked if he fixed things in their home. “Don’t worry about that.”

To be fair to the Kiwi leader, he never claimed to be skilled with DIY. In 2011, he told The Rock FM that his mother once told him he should get a “decent job” because he could never be a doer.

“My mother once said to me … when I was about 10, I was trying to nail something at woodwork and was feeling proud of myself. She took one look at me and she said, ‘Son, there’s two types of people in the world: doers and payers. You’re definitely a payer so you should get off your arse and get a decent job,’” he said.

Some online commenters on social media not only laughed at the prime minister’s inability to do simple handy work, but also scoffed at Mr Key’s mass surveillance scandal.