Rep. Jasmine Crockett did not hold back when asked what she would say to President Donald Trump given the chance — and her advice was pretty straightforward: “Stop being Putin’s ho.”
Following Trump’s joint address to Congress on Tuesday night, attorney Joe Gallina asked Crockett: “If you could tell Donald Trump anything tonight, what would you tell him?”
“I would tell him to grow a spine and stop being Putin’s ho,” the congresswoman replied.
Crockett, who was referring to Trump’s controversial relationship with Russian president Vladimir Putin, continued, per The Hill: “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 have never seen an American president do.”
Her remarks about Trump come after the president and Vice President JD Vance’s fiery meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy last week. During that tense Oval Office sit-down, Trump scolded Zelenskyy over the decisions he has made in his country’s fight against Russia. He also alluded that Zelenskyy was ungrateful for all the assistance he has received from the U.S.
“For those that believe that we should only focus on the United States, this is a focus on the United States,” Crockett continued. “We need a president that understands what diplomacy looks like, and it does not look like the disgrace that we saw that took place in the Oval Office.”
She also criticized Trump’s imposition of tariffs on U.S. allies Mexico and Canada, telling Gallina that “diplomacy does not look like s—ting on our allies by telling them we are going to impose tariffs to the north and the south of us.” (Trump has since walked back some of these latest tariffs.)
This is not the first time Crockett has verbally come for Trump and his camp’s neck and it likely will not be the last. Back in February, she flat out called members of the president’s cabinet “idiots” and said Trump’s “only mission” was to make sure sure that he can line his pockets and those of Elon Musk and any other billionaire all at Americans’ expense.
“This is nothing more than a money grab,” Crockett said during an appearance on “All In With Chris Hayes.” “He’s not out there trying to save money for the American people. That’s not what he’s doing. He’s lining his pockets and, at the same time, he’s outraging people who do not know exactly how we spend our money, and how it benefits us to make sure that things like HIV and AIDS does not become the worldwide pandemic it used to be. We need people that are experts, not idiots that play on Fox News or play on the Internet.”
