No, he should be doubling, tripling-down on invective.
"I don't kneel to the East to pray five times a day."
"I can prove I actually went to college."
"I may be a Mormon, but I'm not a pansy and I don't ride a girl's bicycle."
"My wife doesn't need a lead and chase car with "wide load" signs when she goes for a run"
"My wife can actually dress herself tastefully; she doesn't need Barnum and Bailey's Tent Makers to dress her.
You get the picture....rinse and repeat.
“My mentors were never from the Weather UnGround, they might have worried about the Weather while planting Carrots underground, but those carrots never blew anything up”....