Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C) called President Joe Biden an “inept geriatric despot” during a House floor speech on Wednesday where he also blast the administration for deploying an additional 3,000 troops to Eastern Europe as tensions between Ukraine and Russia rises.
“Madam Speaker, the sons and daughters of America are not foot soldiers for your party’s inept, geriatric despot. They are not expendable pawns to be dispatched at the whims of an idiot, tossed carelessly around the world to Godforsaken caves and bloody sandboxes. They are Americans, worthy of honor and dignity. The only salute from them Joe Biden deserves involves one finger,” Cawthorn said.
Cawthorn went on to say “the war lobby has no ally in the America-first Republicans. We will preserve our strength through nationalism.”
Cawthorn, one of Donald Trump’s staunchest defenders on Capitol Hill, supported the former president in his effort to overturn the election in Congress and spoke at the rally that preceded the attack on the Capitol.
A group of voters in North Carolina are suing to block Cawthorn from running for re-election due to his involvement in the Jan. 6 rally. They argued that comments he made during the rally violates the 14th Amendment.
The 14 Amendment says no one can serve in Congress “who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress . . . to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same.”