Tlaib Admits That ‘Impeach the Motherf***er’ Remark Was ‘Distraction’

Representative Rashida Tlaib apologized on Tuesday for the “distraction” caused by a publicized speech in which she called President Trump a profane name and argued that Democrats should impeach him.

“When your son looks at you and says, ‘Look, Mama, you won. Bullies don’t win,'” Tlaib said to applause from a group gathered at a bar Friday, hours after she was sworn in. “And I said, ‘Baby, they don’t, because we’re gonna go in there and impeach the motherf—er.'”

President Trump then hit back at Tlaib, saying she “dishonored herself and I think she dishonored her family, using language like that in front of her son and whoever else was there. . . . I thought it was highly disrespectful to the United States of America.”

Tlaib defended herself in the days that followed, saying the president “needs to put a mirror up” and that he “has met his match.”

“You know, look, it’s probably exactly how my grandmother, if she was alive, would say it,” she said.

But on Tuesday she distanced herself from her remarks, saying she is sorry they became a “distraction.”

“The use of that language was a teachable moment for me, and I understand that I am a member of Congress, and I don’t want anything that I do or say to distract us,” she said in response to a question on whether she had any regrets about her comments. “That’s the only thing I apologize for, is that it was a distraction.”

“I have a right to be this passionate, this upset,” she added. “I am a woman of color . . . people like us never run for office, and when we do, this is who we are. . . . I will never apologize for being me and for being passionate and upset, period.”