President Donald Trump is slamming Democratic firebrand Maxine Waters as ‘an extraordinarily low IQ person’ after she made a public rallying cry for people to harass administration officials they see in public.
‘Congresswoman Maxine Waters, an extraordinarily low IQ person, has become, together with Nancy Pelosi, the Face of the Democrat Party. She has just called for harm to supporters, of which there are many, of the Make America Great Again movement. Be careful what you wish for Max! ,’ Trump tweeted Monday.
The fiery lawmaker, a Democrat from California who is a vocal critic of the president’s, made her war cry at a public rally in Los Angeles on Saturday outside a Wilshire Federal Building.
President Donald Trump is slamming Democratic firebrand Maxine Waters as ‘an extraordinarily low IQ person’ after she made a public rallying cry for people to harass administration officials they see in public
‘Let’s stay the course. Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up and if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere,’ she yelled as supporters cheered.
She added: ‘Mr. President, we will see you every day, every hour of the day, everywhere that we are to let you know you cannot get away with this!’
She warned those who work for Trump will get no peace.
‘For these members of his Cabinet who remain and try to defend him, they’re not going to be able to go to a restaurant. They’re not going to be able to stop at a gas station. They’re not going to be able to shop at a department store,’ she said. ‘The people are going to turn on them. They’re going to protest. They’re going to absolutely harass them until they decide that they’re going to tell the president, ‘No I can’t hang with you — this is wrong, this is unconscionable, and we can’t keep doing this to children.”
Waters is in a safely Democratic House seat. She is being challenged by Republican candidate Omar Navarro, who has the endorsement of former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.
Republicans swiftly criticized Waters.
And House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi referred to Waters’ comments as ‘unacceptable’ but blamed Trump’s ‘daily lack of civility’ for provoking them.
‘Trump’s daily lack of civility has provoked responses that are predictable but unacceptable,’ she wrote on a retweet of a CNN story on Waters’ remarks. ‘As we go forward, we must conduct elections in a way that achieves unity from sea to shining sea.’
Meghan McCain, the daughter of Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, called Waters’ comments ‘absolutely insane’ and ‘extremely dangerous’ in her twitter post on the incident.
Waters, at her rally, was condemning the Trump administration policy on immigration and called on him to be impeached.
She use colorful, flashy rhetoric to whip up the crowd.
‘History will record while he tried to step on all of us, we kicked him in his rear and step on him,’ she said
‘If you think we’re rallying now, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet,’ she added.
Then she called on people to assail administration officials where ever they saw them in public.
Waters’ plea follows two incidents involving high-profile members of Trump’s administration.
On Friday, the owner of the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Va., asked White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave because of her job, which Sanders tweeted about from her official White House account.
And last week when Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen was run out of a Mexican restaurant in Washington DC by protesters.
The protesters descended on MXDC Cocina Mexicana by Todd English, where Nielsen was dining with a male colleague just hours after Donald Trump praised her for doing a ‘fabulous job’ at Sunday’s press conference.
‘Secretary Nielsen how dare you spend your evening here eating dinner,’ one protester begins to yell in the video.
‘You’re complicit in the separation and deportation of over 10,000 children separated from their parents.’
‘If kids don’t eat in peace, you don’t eat in peace! Not in DC, not in the US!’ they chant at one point.