Lauren Boebert Slammed Online After Mocking Censured Dem's 'Pimp Cane': 'Effortless Racism'

Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert was slammed online after the way he referred to her colleague Al Green's cane following his removal from President Donald Trump's address to Congress and posterior censure.

Boebert was trying to draw a contrast between Green's behavior and hers during former President Joe Biden's State of the Union speech in 2022, when she and colleague Marjorie Taylor Greene repeatedly heckled the then-president's remarks.

"You had some folks on the left trying to come out early and defend this behavior and compare it to an image of Marjorie Taylor Greene and myself, who were chanting 'Build the wall' while all other Republicans were chanting the same phrase and they just got that one image and acted like we completely disrupted the State of the Union," Boebert said during an interview on Real America's Voice.

Boebert went on to say that "Green was given multiple opportunities to sit down, to behave, to show decorum" and "did not," adding that "for him to go and shake his pimp cane at President Trump has absolutely abhorrent."

Her comments were quickly condemned on social media, with many saying the use of the term "pimp cane" was racist.

Green has seemingly not answered publicly to Boebert's comments. He was censured on Thursday over the episode, with 10 Democrats joining Republicans in the vote.

The decision illustrates Democrats' disagreements regarding the best way to oppose Trump and his policies. Other lawmakers opted to hold signs, walked out of the chamber or boycotted it altogether.

Al Green was removed from the chamber on Tuesday after loudly protesting Medicaid cuts. During Trump's speech, Green stood up, shook his cane, and shouted, "You have no mandate to cut Medicaid!"

His Republican colleagues drowned him out with chants of "U.S.A.!" as Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) warned him to sit down. When Green refused, Vice President JD Vance signaled for his removal.