Jasmine Crockett Called Texas Gov. Who Uses Wheelchair 'Governor Hot Wheels'

WASHINGTON ― Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) insists she wasn’t mocking Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) for using a wheelchair when she called him “Governor Hot Wheels” in a speech over the weekend.

“I wasn’t thinking about the governor’s condition – I was thinking about the planes, trains, and automobiles he used to transfer migrants into communities led by Black mayors, deliberately stoking tension and fear among the most vulnerable,” Crockett dubiously wrote Tuesday on social media.

Republicans have slammed Crockett for her comment, with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton calling her “despicable,” and Rep. Randy Weber (R-Texas) saying he would introduce a censure resolution.

In a speech at the Human Rights Campaign dinner in California on Saturday, Crockett said, “Y’all know we got Governor Hot Wheels down there. And the only thing hot about him is that he is a hot ass mess, honey.”

Crockett claimed the phrase “hot ass mess” indicated she wasn’t talking about Abbott’s wheelchair, which he’s used since being struck by a falling tree when out for a run in 1984, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down.

“At no point did I mention or allude to his condition. So, I’m even more appalled that the very people who unequivocally support Trump ― a man known for racially insensitive nicknames and mocking those with disabilities ― are now outraged,” Crockett said Tuesday.

Crockett has emerged as one of Democrats’ top insult comics, frequently going viral and occasionally going a little bit vile. Last year, after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) remarked on Crockett’s “fake eyelashes,” during a contentious House Oversight Committee hearing, Crockett responded in kind after committee Republicans let Greene’s dig slide.

“If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody’s bleach blonde bad-built butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?” Crockett asked the committee chair, in reference to Greene.

At the beginning of her speech on Saturday, Crockett joked that she was liable to get in trouble for making rude statements.

“You all know that I always have remarks and then something else happens,” Crockett said. “Y’all just pray for me because who knows what I’m going to end up saying.”