Here’s What Inspired Jasmine Crockett’s “Bleach Blonde, Bad-Built Butch Body” Insult and Why She Didn’t Take Michelle Obama’s Advice With Marjorie Taylor Greene

An insult delivered by a black Texas congresswoman against a white Republican member of Georgia that took the internet by storm was influenced by her grandmother, Rep. Jasmine Crockett revealed.

A month ago, Crockett got into a heated exchange with Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Greene over disparaging remarks Greene made about Crockett’s eyelashes, and the entire drama was televised.

“I think your false eyelashes are ruining what you’re reading,” Greene said of Crockett during a House oversight committee in May.

Crockett described the moment she applauded Greene, a far-right Republican and loyal supporter of former President Donald Trump, during a recent interview, “The Breakfast Club.” Host DJ Envy asked Crockett about the time she said, “bleached blonde, poorly built butch body,” a shout-out to Greene that almost instantly went viral.

Wearing a T-shirt with the aforementioned slurs, Crockett told the radio show hosts that she had made a “list” of what she considered to be Greene’s physical flaws.

“I literally looked at her because she’s sitting in the same row as me, and I did that from head to toe. …literally from head to toe,” she said. “So, my grandmother talked about poorly built people, so it was an ode to my grandmother. It was something she said.

Crockett said she made the quips as she waited for committee Chairman James Comer of Kentucky to respond to the relevance of Greene’s remarks made during the hearing.

Crockett said, “I think we’ve seen a decentralization of politics because people aren’t resisting,” but when she decided to fight back, “all this attention was on me.”

She went on to point out that her critics contrasted her response to Greene with the way former first lady Michelle Obama never responded to the many crude insults thrown at her by right-wing trolls, saying she was told : “’You were wrong, really. said Michelle Obama?’

Crockett continued: “No, I don’t think what the former first lady meant was that I sit here and you tell me this is crazy, and we’re on the same level, and we We are in a commercial setting.

Radio host Charlamagne Tha God highlighted former first lady Michelle Obama’s popular catchphrase: “With the first lady, it’s interesting because the phrase ‘when they go low, we go high,’ I I have the impression that this applied to the time she was in. 2024 and beyond is a totally different time.

Crockett responded: “It’s a different time. But I also want people to evaluate the perspective in which she was working. She was the only black first lady. She’s on a higher level here. And what was happening was there were all these trolls online, and they were saying all kinds of things, they were calling her all kinds of animals, they were talking about her looks, they were doing all kinds of things. racist people, trying to physically tear her down.

“What does it look like if the first lady literally stoops to respond to someone who is hiding behind a keyboard and has five followers,” she added. “It’s literally going down. You are inferior to her. We’re talking, in this scenario, about the other first ladies who were trying to pick on her and talk about her. That’s not what it was. But literally, we are on the same level. “

The Texas Democrat, who has clashed with Greene in the past, said she received an unexpected phone call from her pastor during the committee meeting, shortly after Crockett’s comments.

“My pastor called me while I was on the committee,” Crockett said. “So, he told me, ‘Yo, you gotta give me a heads up before you say,’ and then he got into the sentence. So I wondered: did my team put this on the Internet? Because this was literally while I was still on committee. But I found that it went viral almost instantly. »

As for the heated exchange between the two House members, it all started when Crockett asked Greene, “Do you know why we’re here?” after Greene brought up a topic seemingly unrelated to the purpose of the hearing. The House Oversight Committee panel met to deliberate on contempt proceedings against Attorney General Merrick Garland, who has been a target of House Republicans.

Greene responded, “I don’t think you know why you’re here. …I think your false eyelashes are ruining what you’re reading.

Crockett then asked the panel’s chairman, Kentucky Republican Rep. James Comer, why Greene’s comments weren’t considered a personal attack. “I’m just curious. To better understand your decision, if someone on this committee then starts talking about someone’s poorly built, bleached blonde butcher body, that wouldn’t engage in personalities, isn’t it? isn’t it?