Marjorie Taylor Greene during Joe Biden’s his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on 1 March, 2022. (Getty/ J. Scott Applewhite-Pool)
Georgia representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has suggested Pete and Chasten Buttigieg want to use girls’ bathrooms in a truly bizarre rant at a Donald Trump rally.
On Saturday, March 26, Trump, who has been touring the country, held his latest “Save America” rally in Commerce, Georgia.
Greene joined a horrifying line-up of warm-up acts, kicked off by Todd Starnes, a “gun-totin’, Bible-clingin’ son of a Baptist” and radio host, so offensive he was even fired by Fox News.
She began her speech declaring that “the real insurrection” was Democrats’ treatment of Trump while he was in office, and that COVID-19 is a “man-made virus”.
But things soon took an even weirder turn.
She continued: “Republicans are taking back the House in 2022, and we are not going to be the same Republican Party that you’ve witnessed for the past decades. That’s right. That’s right.
“You’re gonna see a new Republican Party, a Republican Party that defends our nation’s borders. A Republican Party that finishes the wall. A Republican Party that saves our economy and stops this inflation, ridiculous high gas prices.
“We’re gonna drill oil right here in the USA. And you know what? Pete Buttigieg can take his electric vehicles and his bicycles, and he and his husband can stay out of our girls’ bathrooms. Yeah! And old Lia Thomas… he needs to go back to men’s swimming.”
The response to Greene’s unintelligible rant ranged from disgust to derision.
I’m not sure we’ve ever had an elected official who embodied both vile cruelty and numbing stupidity in such massive quantities. @RepMTG is so evil it boggles the mind. pic.twitter.com/BYKROXZvW5
— Ken Olin (@kenolin1) March 27, 2022
Marjorie Taylor Greene ended her homophobic rant today by saying “You’re going to be seeing a new Republican Party.”
The “New GOP” wants to go back in time. They want to ban Gay marriage and tell kids who they can and cannot be.
We can’t let them.
— Jack Cocchiarella (@JDCocchiarella) March 26, 2022
I’m a woman, and honestly, I’d rather Pete Buttigieg in the bathroom with me than Marjorie Taylor Greene. https://t.co/jmIiFIq4hx
— no one (@no_one_here_7) March 26, 2022
Marjorie Taylor Greene is right! Pete Buttigieg and his husband should not be allowed to bring their electric bicycles into girls bathrooms! There’s just not enough room in there for bikes. #TrumpRally https://t.co/txJGYG2T9J
— Guy Who Does His Own Research (@DYO_Research) March 27, 2022
One Twitter user wrote: “I’m a woman, and honestly, I’d rather Pete Buttigieg in the bathroom with me than Marjorie Taylor Greene.”
“Marjorie Taylor Greene is right,” said another.
“Pete Buttigieg and his husband should not be allowed to bring their electric bicycles into girls bathrooms! There’s just not enough room in there for bikes.”
She even received a response from Kathy Griffin, who tweeted: “You guys, I cannot get secretary Pete Buttigieg and his husband Chasten out of my bathroom!
“To be fair I do have a fabulous master bath and we were having brunch in there.”
You guys, I cannot get secretary Pete Buttigieg and his husband @Chasten out of my bathroom!!!
To be fair I do have a fabulous master bath and we were having brunch in there. https://t.co/vkNFSc7WqK— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) March 27, 2022
Asked for comment by PinkNews, Greene did not seem to understand the confusion.
A spokesperson said: “It’s pretty simple. Congresswoman Greene wants biological men to stay out of women’s bathrooms.”
Greene, who has touted QAnon conspiracy theories, spewed COVID misinformation, taken aim at trans youth and compared the mask mandate on the House floor to the Holocaust, was this month dubbed an “insurrectionist” by a lawsuit seeking to stop her running for reelection.
On Thursday (24 March), bipartisan Texas-based group Free Speech for People filed a complaint on behalf of Georgian voters arguing that Greene is constitutionally “ineligible” to serve in the House of Representatives, under the “Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause“.