Radical Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett claimed that supporters of President Donald Trump are “sick” and “mentally ill.”
During an off-the-rails interview with Katie Couric on her “Next Question” podcast, Crockett argued our country is in a “mental health crisis” because Trump was elected and declared she’d “give anything” to have a Republican like former President George W. Bush back in office.
Crockett insulted those who supported the recent military parade celebrating the Army’s 250th anniversary in Washington, D.C., as “sick.”
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“This idea that we don’t care how many people get hurt. We don’t how we prostitute our service members, you know, thinking that you have your own special little army that’s for you. I mean, it is just, it’s sick. It is really sick. And anybody that supports it is also sick,” Crockett said.
Crockett then linked Trump’s MAGA following to a “mental health crisis.”
“We’ve got a mental health crisis in this country because everyone, no matter how you affiliate yourself, should be against Trump, period. This is not partisan for me,” she said.
Crockett added that she would “give anything” to have Bush back in office, calling him a “regular Republican.”
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“I would give anything to have, sad to say, George Bush. Give me any regular Republican nowadays and I would be happy. But right now we have someone who does not care and he is being enabled by the fact that there are people that follow him and they pump him up,” she said.
“My heart breaks for service members, people that signed up to protect democracy and freedom, not only here, but abroad, and were willing to risk their lives,” she said. “And now, literally, the very thing that they signed up to fight against is now their commander-in-chief. It really breaks my heart. And I don’t know how far he has to go before we can come together and just say, enough is enough.”
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Crockett’s remarks come after Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar, a refugee from Somalia, said that the United States of America, the nation where her family fled, is becoming one of the worst countries in the world.
In a recent interview with Democracy Now, Omar pointed out that U.S. troops were sent to put down protests in Los Angeles during the same week the Trump administration held a massive military parade to celebrate 250 years of the U.S. Army.
“Can you imagine that image that is going to be coming out of our country? I mean, I grew up in a dictatorship, and I don’t even remember ever witnessing anything like that,” the representative said, referring to Somalia.
“To have a democracy, a beacon of hope for the world, to now be turned into one of the, you know, one of the worst countries, where the military are in our streets without any regard for people’s constitutional rights, while our president’s spending millions of dollars propping himself up like a failed dictator with a military parade — it is really shocking,” she said.
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“It should be a wake-up call for all Americans to say, ‘This is not the country we were born in. It’s not the country we believe in. This is not the country our Founding Fathers imagined, and this is not the country that is supported by our Constitution, our ideals, our values,’” the woman, who was not actually born in the United States, said.
“And we should all collectively be out in the streets, rejecting what is taking place this week,” she said.
“I think the person who is in the process of destroying our country should look in the mirror and that’s Trump,” she said. “And notice that he is the one that has hatred for the values that we have here in America and everything that we have built. The reality is protest, dissent, is constitutionally protected that is everybody’s First Amendment right in this country.”
The Minnesota Democrat and Squad member faced immediate backlash on X for her comments.
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