Rep. Jasmine Crockett has earned a repute for her unflinching readiness to talk out towards these in energy — and this time, she has a pointed message for President Donald Trump.
After Trump’s handle to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday evening, Crockett, a Democrat representing Texas, was approached by the group Name To Activism — a gaggle fashioned to face as much as Trump and the GOP — and was requested, “If you could tell Donald Trump anything tonight, what would you tell him?”
“I would tell him to grow a spine and stop being Putin’s ho,” Crockett responded.
Trump has rapidly appeared sympathetic to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s trigger in his second time period, incessantly launching assaults on Ukraine chief Volodymyr Zelenskyy and halting assist to Ukraine amid its ongoing struggle with Russia.
Trump and Vice President JD Vance teamed up towards Zelenskyy throughout his go to to the U.S. in February, accusing him of being “disrespectful” and telling him he had “no cards” to barter an finish to Russia’s brutal invasion of his nation.
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Crockett additionally dismissed Trump’s assertion on Tuesday that the US would ultimately acquire management over Greenland “one way or the other” as “really psychotic.”
“I don’t even know why we fighting with Greenland,” she advised Adam Mockler of the progressive MeidasTouch Community. “Why are we fighting with Greenland? We fighting with Canada, we fighting with Mexico, yet we in love with Putin? What is happening? Like, this is not America. This is a terrible nightmare. Somebody slap me and wake me the fuck up because I’m ready to get on with it.”
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Earlier in February, throughout an interview on the nation’s Capitol, Crockett was requested, “Elon and Trump are trying to threaten and intimidate, are you intimidated?”
She swiftly and confidently responded: “No.”
