Lauren Boebert Stands By Her 'Pimp' Comment About Black Lawmaker After She's Blasted as Racist

Mar. 15, 2025

Green waskicked out of the House chamberat the start of Trump’s presidential address on March 4, when he shook his cane and shouted “No mandate!” in protest of the president.

House SpeakerMike Johnsonwarned Green, 77, to take his seat, but the Democrat refused, leading to his removal.

In a March 8 interview withReal America’s Voice, Boebert, 38, expressed her outrage at the incident, using language that was quickly blasted as offensive.

“For him to go and shake his pimp cane at President Trump was absolutely abhorrent,” she said at the time.

Rep. Al Green was removed from a joint session of Congress on March 4, 2025, after protesting against President Donald Trump.Chip Somodevilla/Getty

Chip Somodevilla/Getty

She fired back specifically at Democratic Rep. Chrissy Houlahan’scondemnation of the remarksas “disparaging, derogatory, and racist toward another colleague.”

Boebert, a Republican representative from Colorado, responded, “Maybe ‘Houla-who’ is really the racist here. Are only Blacks pimps? Is that what I’m hearing? Are there no cisgender, white pimps in America?”

She also called into question Green’s use of the cane, saying, “I have never seen Al Green actually use his cane as a support to walk.”

“I have seen him shake it for years all throughout the Capitol during any meeting that I’ve ever been present with him in,” she continued. “If that gold-plated cane isn’t a pimp cane, I don’t know what is.”

Rep. Lauren Boebert and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene chant “Build the Wall!” during President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, March 1, 2022.Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters/Bloomberg via Getty

Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters/Bloomberg via Getty

In 2022, PresidentJoe Bidenwas heckled during his State of the Union address when he brought up his late son,Beau Biden, an Iraq War veteran who died of brain cancer in 2015. As Biden addressed concerns over the effects of chemical warfare on veterans’ health,Boebert yelled, “You put them there!”

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Of the comparisons, Boebert told Real America’s Voice, “You had some folks on the left trying to come out early and defend this behavior and compare it to an image of Marjorie Taylor Greene and myself, who were chanting ‘Build the wall’ while all other Republicans were chanting the same phrase."

“They just got that one image and acted like we completely disrupted the State of the Union,” she said in her defense.

“But Al Green was given multiple opportunities to stand down, to sit down, to behave, to show decorum,” Boebert added. “And he did not.”

source: people.com