Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) is once again engaged in failing performance art, this time attempting to get into the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) headquarters.
Waters, prior to a protest against slashing waste and fraud at HUD under the new administration, attempted to hand deliver a letter to Secretary Scott Turner.
And she was adamant about meeting Turner face-to-face, you guys!
"We came to deliver a letter to him, but they wouldn't let us do it," Waters claimed. "We were stopped by someone who said he was a chief of staff and someone else who didn't identify himself, and they said he was too busy."
"I said I'm prepared to stay here until hell freezes over," she added.
Well, wouldn't you know it? Hell must have frozen over about three minutes later when she left.
Just witnessed Maxine Waters try to demand her way into hand delivering an anti-DOGE letter to HUD’s @SecretaryTurner while he was in a meeting
— Olivia Rondeau 🇺🇸 (@rondeaulivia) March 4, 2025
The HUD chief of staff was quite nice and offered to have her watch a video of Trump’s accomplishments in the lobby@BreitbartNews pic.twitter.com/4uuB0hLDTy
Everything about this is comedy gold, Jerry.
From her committing to staying in perpetuity and then almost immediately leaving, to the very helpful HUD chief of staff offering for Maxine to watch a video of President Trump's accomplishments in the lobby while she waits. I mean ... just a work of art.
Here she is leaving, according to Breitbart News reporter Olivia Rondeau, "within like 3 minutes."
#HappeningNow Congresswoman Maxine Waters exiting the HUD headquarters, where she was going to deliver a letter to HUD Secretary Scott Turner, but she just told crowd at rally she was stopped before getting to his office. pic.twitter.com/fFaN6DT2ov
— Christian Flores (@CFloresNews) March 3, 2025
We all know this was a political stunt on Waters' part, but in case it wasn't entirely spelled out in that clip, Turner's office issued a five-step explainer on X.
The message points out that despite the 86-year-old congresswoman's claims, she "was not denied entry" and apparently took the staff up on their offer to watch the Trump video for at least a bit.
"Waters watched President Trump accomplishments video in lobby," the post reads.
This is what a political stunt looks like:
— Sec. Turner Press Office (@SecTurnerPress) March 3, 2025
1️⃣ Maxine Waters was not denied entry
2️⃣The Congresswoman spoke with HUD senior leadership
3️⃣Waters watched President Trump accomplishments video in lobby‼️
4️⃣Waters asked senior leadership to say she was being denied
5️⃣She departed https://t.co/2NfuKkp0Wr
They even suggest Maxine tried to goad them into saying she was being denied entry. You can clearly hear staff in that video explain to Ms. Waters that Turner was in a lengthy meeting and they'd helpfully deliver her letter - which I have to assume was written in crayon - to him.
But they never say she is barred from the building.
Get someone that looks at you the way Maxine Waters looked at me when she realized I was recording her acting like a petulant child pic.twitter.com/zqTfbNy9FY
— Olivia Rondeau 🇺🇸 (@rondeaulivia) March 4, 2025
If that wasn't enough entertainment, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) tried to get in on the action, playing Barney Rubble to Maxine's Fred Flintstone.
Tlaib's 'look at me!' ploy went about as well as you might imagine - with her screeching and launching profanities at the staff.
Witnessed Rashida Tlaib crashing out at a @HUDgov employee after being denied entry to the building with a cohort of other House Democrats. @BreitbartNews pic.twitter.com/mwbs1Iza1T
— Olivia Rondeau 🇺🇸 (@rondeaulivia) March 4, 2025
When someone in the building, as Tlaib is tucking tail and retreating, points out he works "for the American people," she becomes enraged (profanity alert).
“No, you don’t! No, you don’t!" she shouts, eventually adding, "You don’t give a s**t.”
I know, I know. It's hard to believe that the "Impeach the MFer" merch saleswoman couldn't hold it together.
How pathetic does one have to be to play second-fiddle to Maxine Waters? And is Waters the true leader of the Democrat party at this point? She's definitely the leader of these protests.
Anyway, this failed stunt comes on the heels of a similarly embarrassing incident in which Waters and several of her colleagues accosted and harassed a security guard at the Education Department.
Maxine Waters (D) is currently accosting random federal employees outside the Department of Education pic.twitter.com/5L8RviQ9rH
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 7, 2025
Waters belittles and mocks the security guard in that video. If only she had some sense of self-awareness that she's the one deserving of mockery.
Better luck next time, Maxine. Don't ever change.
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