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'Not Funny!' Liz Truss Storms Off Stage As Lettuce Stunt Crashes Her 'Pro-Trump' Event

Former U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss fell victim to yet another lettuce-related stunt on Tuesday night while hosting a pro-Donald Trump speaking event in Suffolk, England.

Truss was explaining to the crowd why she backed the former U.S. president and Republican candidate for re-election — and why Americans were struggling with the economy — when she was rudely interrupted.

But Truss seemed completely oblivious as a banner depicting a lettuce (with goggly eyes) slowly unfurled from the ceiling behind her.

To make matters worse, it had the words, “I crashed the economy” written on there, too.

And, presumably by pure luck, she happened to be wearing a green, leaf-y colored dress.

Truss did not realize she had been upstaged by the remote-controlled banner until someone else came on stage and pointed it out to her.

The person she was speaking to on stage said he had “no idea where that came from” — at which point, hesitant giggles started to break out in the audience.

But Truss looked up at it, and said: “That’s not funny.”

She stormed off stage while a reluctant smattering of applause filled the room.

The stunt, from activist group Led By Donkeys, is a throwback to the famous Daily Star trick, where the newspaper set up alivestream of a lettuce to see which would last longer — Truss’s career in Downing Street after her mini-Budget or the salad item.

(The lettuce won.)

A one-minute video of the stunt quickly went viral overnight, racking up 2.3 million views over less than 12 hours.

Led By Donkeys performed asimilar prank with Reform UK’s Nigel Farage at the end of June.

They infuriated the populist leader by setting up a banner of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the words “I ❤️ Nigel” behind him when Farage was on the

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