Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) has filed a trademark application for a biting insult she hurled against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) during a House Oversight Committee hearing, extending a feud between two well-known members of the House.
Crockett’s campaign filed the phrase “bleach blonde bad built butch body” with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Sunday. The expression references a remark Crockett directed toward Greene last week. While pressing Chairman James Comer (R-KY) on what constituted a breach of congressional protocol, Crockett asked, “If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody’s bleach-blonde, bad-built, butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?”
Crockett plans to use the phrase “bleach blonde bad built butch body” for clothing items and accessories, including hats, hoodies, socks, and T-shirts. The move accompanies her “Crockett Clapback Collection” launch, which includes merchandise bearing the now infamous phrase.
Greene responded to Crockett’s trademark application with a video of herself working out in a post to X.
“Yes my body is built and strong NOT with nips, tucks, plastic, or silicone, but through a healthy lifestyle,” she wrote in the post. “Soon turning 50 years old, God willing, I will continue to lift, run, swim, play sports, surf, ski, climb and LIVE this life to the fullest and enjoy every single moment!”
Crockett’s barb was in response to an insult Greene had directed at her earlier in the hearing.
“I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you’re reading,” Greene said to Crockett.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) rushed to defend Crockett, saying, “I would like to move to take down Ms. Greene’s words. That is absolutely unacceptable. How dare you attack the physical appearance of another person?”
Greene replied, “Are your feelings hurt?”
“Oh girl, baby girl, don’t even play,” Ocasio-Cortez responded.
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Crockett tried to brand Greene’s “fake eyelashes” comment as racist, telling CNN’s Jake Tapper, “MAGA has historically been on social media doing the things where they’re saying, ‘Oh she’s black with lashes and nails and hair, and so she’s ghetto.’ And so, to me, this was [Greene] buying into that rhetoric and trying to amplify this for the MAGA crowd.”
The feud has spread to the Senate, with Ocasio-Cortez calling Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) a bully for his comments deriding the “chaos” in the House chambers.
