Texas Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett shared criticism for President Donald Trump on Tuesday night following his joint address to Congress.
Crockett walked out of Trump’s speech on Tuesday night, taking to social media, saying he was “spewing all kinds of nonsense” while he addressed both chambers of Congress.
She later spoke with attorney Joe Gallina about Trump, and he asked her what she would say to the president if she had the chance. She said she “would tell him to grow a spine and stop being Putin’s ho.”
“That’s all we got right now, is Putin’s little ho, that is out here really doing the bidding of Russia in a way we’ve never seen an American president do,” Crockett said.
The Texas lawmaker made reference to Trump’s fiery meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last Friday, where the two world leaders exchanged barbs in the Oval Office. Crockett said that the meeting showed Trump was deserting the nation’s allies.
“For those that believe that we should only focus on the United States, this is a focus on the United States,” she said. “We need a president that understands what diplomacy looks like, and it doesn’t look like the disgrace that we saw that took place in the Oval Office.”
Crockett also discussed Trump’s actions against Canada and Mexico, saying that diplomacy is not supposed to “look like s—ting on our allies by telling them we’re going to impose tariffs to the north and the south of us.”
Trump’s 25% tariffs on imports from the two countries went into effect on Tuesday, launching a trade war that economists have said could cause prices to rise.
Crockett said that the move will only result in prices rising, especially for housing costs, which she says will soon “go through the roof” because of the tariffs and potential future taxes in building material imports.
“As people are still complaining about their eggs, now they’re going to have to worry about the rest of their groceries,” she said. “Listen, it is time for him to grow a pair and start to do the work of an American president and stop pretending that he is on some terrible reality TV show that is looking for ratings. I am hoping that America turns off the TV today and tunes into people like you, because all he does is look for ratings, and we shouldn’t give them the attention.”