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Far-right Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was ridiculed on social media after making bizarre comments online.
Greene, an outspoken ally of former President Donald Trump, recalled a recent experience at an airport on the social media platform X on Sunday. She described an encounter with a middle-aged woman wearing a mask and “psychotically grunting/screaming unintelligible noises” at the congressman.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, leaves her office on Capitol Hill on February 4, 2021 in Washington, DC (Photo by Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images)
Yet that was not the part of Greene’s summary of her travel chronicle that attracted attention. It was her alleged positive conversation with an airline employee.
“Friendly airline employee smiles and says, ‘Tell President Trump that African American Muhammad says hello and joins him!’” Greene wrote.
Today at the airport:
Middle-aged white woman wearing a black cloth mask growls/screams unintelligible noises at me as she walks by.
Than,
Friendly airline worker smiles and says, “Tell President Trump that African American Muhammad says hello and joins him!”
– Marjorie Taylor Greene
(@mtgreenee) September 24, 2023
X-users immediately accused Greene of making up the story.
“For $200 I’ll take things that didn’t happen, Alex!” wrote one X user.
“You made that second part up, didn’t you,” another user wrote.
“This reminds me of little kids who lie and it’s obviously a lie but because they’re a kid they can’t tell,” one X user wrote.
While most responses to Greene’s
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“Racists always use adjectives to describe a person for the purpose of indicating that they are not racist (i.e., “African American Mohammed”); However, there is no need to do this if you are NOT racist, because actions speak louder than words,” an X user replied to the Republican politician. “Do us all a favor, empty Greene, and crawl back under that rock.
“Jamal must have been on a break, they love that name because of their imaginary black friends,” an X user wrote in a separate post.
“The best black people for MAGAS are a made up black man,” wrote another.
The September 24 post
In February 2019, Greene appeared in an online video filmed at the U.S. Capitol, claiming that U.S. Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan were not “truly official” members of Congress because they had not taken the oath of office. on the Bible because of their Muslim faith,
After a heated exchange in May, Greene alleged that Black U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York had a history of aggression, a racist trope about Black men. She also claimed that Bowman called her a white supremacist, which she said is similar to the N-word.