US lawmaker
Marjorie Taylor Greene
, a staunch supporter of former Republican President Donald Trump, was
a laughingstock on social media on Wednesday after accusing Democrat
Nancy Pelosi
, leader of the US Congress
, of setting up a "gazpacho police."
The representative from the southern state of Georgia blasted against Pelosi Tuesday night during a program on
One America News
, a pro-Trump cable channel.
In his tirade, Taylor Greene
compared the Washington DC jail
that houses some of the attackers on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021
to a "gulag"
.
And in her eagerness to compare Pelosi to the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police, he evoked gazpacho, the famous cold Spanish tomato soup.
"Not only do we have the DC Jail, which is the DC Gulag, but we now have Nancy Pelosi's gazpacho police spying on members of Congress, spying on the legislative work that we do, spying on our staff, and spying on citizens. Americans who want to come talk to their representatives," he said.
The confusion delighted many Internet users and personalities, including the famous Hispanic-American chef José Andrés, owner of several restaurants in Washington and winner of the Princess of Asturias Award for Concord for his service to humanitarian causes.
"Dear representative Marjorie Taylor Greene,
I created the gazpacho police in 1993 so that no one would put tabasco or jalalpeño or weird things in my beloved soup!"
, she wrote on Twitter.
"Please don't blame anyone but me... stop by for a drink whenever you want.
Don't forget your mask and vaccination card!"
, she added her alongside an emoji of a face sticking out its tongue and winking.
Taylor Greene, sanctioned by Twitter for a "misleading" message about anticovid vaccines, was removed from two congressional committees for her
support of QAnon conspiracy theories
.
She also sparked controversy by equating mask mandates with the Nazi imposition of yellow stars on Jews.
This time he reacted in a tone of self-mockery: "There is no soup for those who illegally spy on members of Congress, but they
will be thrown into goulash", an allusion to the Hungarian soup
very common in Central Europe.
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