Jasmine Crockett Called Texas Gov. Who Uses Wheelchair ‘Governor Hot Wheels’ | EUROtoday

WASHINGTON ― Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) insists she wasn’t mocking Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) for utilizing a wheelchair when she referred to as him “Governor Hot Wheels” in a speech over the weekend.

“I wasn’t thinking about the governor’s condition – I was thinking about the planes, trains, and automobiles he used to transfer migrants into communities led by Black mayors, deliberately stoking tension and fear among the most vulnerable,” Crockett dubiously wrote Tuesday on social media.

Republicans have slammed Crockett for her remark, with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton calling her “despicable,” and Rep. Randy Weber (R-Texas) saying he would introduce a censure decision.

In a speech on the Human Rights Campaign dinner in California on Saturday, Crockett stated, “Y’all know we got Governor Hot Wheels down there. And the only thing hot about him is that he is a hot ass mess, honey.”

Crockett claimed the phrase “hot ass mess” indicated she wasn’t speaking about Abbott’s wheelchair, which he’s used since being struck by a falling tree when out for a run in 1984, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down.

“At no point did I mention or allude to his condition. So, I’m even more appalled that the very people who unequivocally support Trump ― a man known for racially insensitive nicknames and mocking those with disabilities ― are now outraged,” Crockett stated Tuesday.

Crockett has emerged as considered one of Democrats’ prime insult comics, ceaselessly going viral and sometimes going somewhat bit vile. Last 12 months, after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) remarked on Crockett’s “fake eyelashes,” throughout a contentious House Oversight Committee listening to, Crockett responded in type after committee Republicans let Greene’s dig slide.

“If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody’s bleach blonde bad-built butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?” Crockett requested the committee chair, in reference to Greene.

At the start of her speech on Saturday, Crockett joked that she was liable to get in hassle for making impolite statements.

“You all know that I always have remarks and then something else happens,” Crockett stated. “Y’all just pray for me because who knows what I’m going to end up saying.”