The United States House of Representatives has always counted its share of horrible people, but the era of Donald Trump obviously upped the “truly awful with a side of crazier than a shithouse mouse” quotient. Whereas past and present members like New York’s Michael “I’ll throw you off this fucking balcony” Grimm and Wisconsin’s Glenn Grothman, who once put out a press release declaring that “almost no Black people today care about Kwanzaa—just white left-wingers who try to shove this down Black people’s throats in an effort to divide Americans,” used to handily top the charts, today’s competition requires elected officials to wake up a lot earlier in the morning to be crowned the House’s biggest asshole. That competition grew even more fierce on Wednesday, when a video surfaced of newly elected representative Marjorie Taylor Greene harassing a teenage survivor of a school shooting, in which she called him a “coward,” among other insults.
The video, posted by Fred Guttenberg, the father of a slain Parkland student, shows Greene following Parkland survivor David Hogg while he is apparently in D.C. to discuss gun control with lawmakers. In it, Greene suggests that Hogg is using dead children—like the 14 who were killed at his high school—to elicit sympathy. “Why are you using kids as a barrier? Do you not know how to defend your stance?” Greene yells at Hogg, who ignores her. “Look, I’m an American citizen. I’m a gun owner. I have a concealed carry permit. I carry a gun for protection for myself. And you are using your lobby and the money behind it and the kids to try to take away my Second Amendment rights. You don’t have anything to say for yourself? You can’t defend your stance? … How did you get kids? Why do you use kids? Why kids?” Naturally, she then launches into a monologue about how if there’d been more guns at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, fewer people would have died. “You know, if school zones were protected with security guards with guns, there would be no mass shootings at schools. Do you know that? The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun,” she says. “But yet you’re attacking our Second Amendment. And you have nothing to say. No words.”
When it becomes clear Hogg isn’t going to dignify her questions with responses, Greene turns toward the camera to conspiratorially wonder how Hogg was able to get meetings with lawmakers when she wasn’t, a truly incredible self-own. “Guess what?” she says. “I’m a gun owner. I’m an American citizen. And I have nothing. But this guy with his George Soros funding and his major liberal funding has got everything.” Then she calls Hogg a “coward” because he won’t respond to the crazy lady who thinks school shootings are inside jobs by Democrats so they can take away her guns. “He’s a coward,” she says. “He can’t say one word because he can’t defend his stance. Because there is no defense for taking away guns. There is no defense for gun confiscation. Zero.”
That wasn’t the only video—originally posted on Greene’s own YouTube page—to resurface on Wednesday. In another, Greene suggests that the 2017 Las Vegas shooting was planned by anti-gun activists who specifically targeted the people at the country music festival because “performing a mass shooting into a crowd that is very likely to be conservative, very likely to vote Republican, very likely to be Trump supporters, very likely to be pro-Second Amendment, and very likely to own guns” helps the anti-gun liberals pass anti-gun legislation by making people scared of mass shootings.
The videos followed a Tuesday report by CNN’s KFile that Greene had liked comments supporting the executions of prominent Democrats and federal agents before she was elected. The congresswoman responded with a statement on Twitter claiming that it must have been someone else using her account who seemingly endorsed executing, among others, Nancy Pelosi, despite the fact that she also gave a speech saying Pelosi was “guilty of treason” and treason was “a crime punishable by death.”
Asked if the White House had any comment about Greene on Wednesday, press secretary Jen Psaki refused to dignify the congresswoman’s insane behavior with a response.
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