Rep. Nancy Mace proudly posted a video of herself yelling, “Fuck you!” at a constituent in a store who asked her whether she plans to hold any more town halls this year.
“I do them every year,” Mace said at the beginning of the video, apparently in response to the constituent’s question. “Do you want to keep going?! Do you want to keep going and keep harassing me?”
“I asked if you’re doing any more this year. It was a simple question: Are you doing any more town halls this year?” the constituent replied.
“I’ve already done one. I’ll do plenty more. You’re always invited,” Mace said before interjecting that she “voted for gay marriage twice,” apparently assuming the constituent’s sexuality.
“What does that have to do with me?” the constituent asked. “There’s no other humane conversation you can have about me?”
“It has everything to do with you,” Mace said.
The confrontation continued to escalate, with Mace telling the constituent, “You people on the left are crazy. You’re absolutely fucking crazy. Get out of my face.”
“Goodbye. Fuck you,” Mace said.
“You’re a disgrace to this state. That’s what you are,” the constituent responded. “I ask you a simple question, and you go on this tirade and tell me ‘Fuck you’ — disgusting.”
The two continued to exchange words and multiple “fuck yous” until the constituent ultimately walked away.
Mace then posted a recording she filmed of the argument to social media and called the constituent an “unhinged lunatic” who was “wearing daisy dukes” (his shorts appeared to be neither denim nor cut-offs).
“Dems are nuts. So I went off — and I won’t be backing down. I hold the line 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year,” she wrote. In the video, the constituent did not identify as aligning with any particular political party.
This incident comes just a week after Mace — who in 2023 described herself as “pro-transgender rights” and “pro-LGBTQ” — repeatedly used an anti-transgender slur during a speech to an Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition event.
“Can I say trans in Iowa? Can I say tr*nny? Can I say it three times?” Mace said, then repeating the derogatory slur three times as the crowd laughed. She also praised the state for removing trans people as a protected class.
It’s not her first time using the disparaging term. She used the slur in February during a congressional hearing when she asked witnesses to speak about USAID giving $2 million to help bolster transgender-led organizations providing gender-affirming healthcare in Guatemala. And she tripled down when Rep. Gerry Connolly called her out for using “a phrase that is considered a slur in the LGBTQ community and the transgender community.”
“Tr*nny! Tr*nny! Tr*nny!” she replied. “I don’t really care!”
GLAAD — non-profit organization focused on LGBTQ issues — says the slur, when used in a derogatory way, is “one of the most extreme slurs” that can be used against a trans person. According to GLAAD, she has used the slur publicly many times.