Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) was slammed on social media and accused of hypocrisy over the way she criticized Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) for heckling and pointing his cane toward Donald Trump during the president’s speech to a joint session of Congress last week.
Boebert, during an interview on the right-wing Real America’s Voice, first sought to memory-hole her own interruptions of then-President Joe Biden’s speech to Congress in 2022.
She said: “You had some folks on the left trying to come out early and defend this behavior and compare it to an image of Marjorie Taylor Greene and myself, who were chanting ‘Build the wall’ while all other Republicans were chanting the same phrase and they just got that one image and acted like we completely disrupted the State of the Union.”
This was the image in question:
“But Al Green was given multiple opportunities to stand down, to sit down, to behave, to show decorum. And he did not,” she continued.
Boebert then said: “For him to go and shake his pimp cane at President Trump was absolutely abhorrent.”
Critics reminded Boebert of her infamous moment with Marjorie Taylor Greene.
They also recalled that time she was removed from a “Beetlejuice” musical for vaping and groping her then-date during a performance of the show.
And they ripped her for describing the stick that Green, who is Black, wielded at Trump as a “pimp cane.”