Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R- Ga.) said New York City was a “terrible place,” a day after her Manhattan demonstration against former President Donald Trump’s arrest was drowned out by counter-protestors.
The 48-year-old far-right Trump loyalist had nothing nice to say about the Big Apple when asked about her trip on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Wednesday.
“[New York] is disgusting. I compared it to what I called Gotham City,” Greene whined. “The streets are filthy, they’re covered with people, um, basically dying on drugs, they can’t even stand up, they’re falling over.”
“There’s so much crime in the city I can’t comprehend how people live there,” she said of the hometown of about nine million souls.
Greene, an espouser of conspiracy theories who represents a district in rural Georgia, alleged to Carlson that her constitutional rights were violated after demonstrators with whistles prevented her from addressing the crowd outside Manhattan Criminal Court.
She also accused Mayor Eric Adams and his “fascist” fellow Democrats of conspiring to censor her remarks as she rallied with habitually lying Rep. George Santos outside the courthouse amid a swarm of demonstrators, members of the press and law enforcement personnel.
“That’s against the law, by the way, Tucker, you see they didn’t want me to be able to protest and use my First Amendment rights and they wanted violence. I think they [Democrats] wanted that to happen because they want to repeat Jan. 6 all over again,” she said of the chilly reception.
“It was absolute chaos and that’s what the mayor of New York City wanted to happen to me. You see he threatened me and basically put out a dog whistle for violence against me,” added Greene after Hizzoner took to the airwaves to warn the provocateur to be on “her best behavior” ahead of her trip.
It was unclear if Greene saw any of the five boroughs besides the circus-like scene downtown during her visit, but she pulled no punches in her closing statement.
“It was repulsive, it smells bad, and I just I think it’s a terrible place,” she told Carlson.
“Yeah,” the top-rated host responded. “With some nice people, I will say that.”
Manhattan’s East Village alone is more populous than the largest municipality in Greene’s district — Rome, Ga., a city of about 38,000 in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.
In response to Greene, MSNBC anchor Mehdi Hasan said her attacks on America’s biggest city exposed “double standards” and “asymmetry” in US politics and media.
“No Democratic politician from the coasts could ever go visit a Republican-led city in the South & then go on a liberal media outlet & call it repulsive, smelly, & disgusting,” he tweeted. “No way.”