During a segment of "Jimmy Kimmel Live" on Thursday, Rep. Jasmine Crockett explained how her brutal roast of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene came to be and, yes, she's still laughing about it.
The Texas representative is a rising star in the Democratic party, but one particular moment pushed her into virality, her jab at the “bleach blonde, bad-built, butch body” Marjorie Taylor Greene on the House floor.
The now-iconic dig at the Georgia congresswoman came about during a tense verbal spat between Greene and Democratic lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee, when Greene hurled a vitriolic insult toward Crockett.
“I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you’re reading," Greene said before Crockett retorted with the infamous one-liner, which she spun off into a merch collection a few days later.
Kimmel asked her what led up to the exchange, to which Crockett answered with another dig on her across-the-aisle colleague.
“It’s just that Marjorie is a little slow,” Crockett said. “What most people don’t know is that on this particular day, we were supposed to have our hearing at 11 a.m . . . instead, it wasn’t until, like 8 p.m.”
Crockett was referring to a hearing on a motion to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland that was postponed so Greene and her MAGA-aligned friends could stump at Donald Trump’s criminal trial.
“So we had to wait for them to come back!” Crockett said. “We’re supposed to be talking about AG Merrick Garland, and she starts talking about Judge Merchan. So now I’m upset because it’s already late at night, I’ve been here all day, ready to work, y’all aren’t here, and she’s still talking about that failed trial. So I had to ask her if she understood, because she’s not the brightest.”
Crockett admitted that though Greene started the insult exchange, she had to shoot back after Oversight Chair James Comer kept Greene on the floor. Crockett told Kimmel she’s still not a fan of the conspiracy theorist congresswoman, telling the host that she’d be “hard-pressed to find someone dumber” in their chamber.
Watch the segment here:
