‘UNHINGED’: Green Screams for DHS Secretary to ‘Shut Up!’ After Labeling Him a Racist

Rep. Al Green, best known for shaking a cane at President Donald Trump and filing several articles of impeachment, is being mocked for labeling Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin a racist, then screaming at him to “shut up” when he tried to respond.

It happened Wednesday at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing, but the roots of the exchange go back to the State of the Union.

Days before the address, Trump’s social media account shared an election-integrity-themed video that inexplicably included a brief animated image of Barack and Michelle Obama depicted as primates. Trump immediately took the video down.

At the State of the Union, Green, a Texas Democrat, held up a sign reading “Black people aren’t apes.” Mullin, then a senator from Oklahoma, maneuvered over and grabbed the sign. Green was then removed from the House chamber, just as he had been a year earlier for screaming and waving his cane at the president.

During Wednesday’s hearing, Green brought up an image from the incident when addressing Mullin.

“A racist would depict people of color as apes. A racist would take offense at a peaceful protest. This was a peaceful protest, Mr. Secretary,” Green said.

When Mullin attempted to defend himself, repeatedly asking, “Are you calling me a racist?” Green erupted.

“Reclaiming my time,” Green said, growing more heated. “Ask him to shut up. It’s my time. Tell him to shut up! Shut up! Shut up! It’s my time!”

“I’m not gonna let anybody call me a racist, chairman,” Mullin said. Then, as the exchange continued, “I will continue to interrupt as long as someone’s … calling me a racist.”

After this moment of theatrics, committee Chairman Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., banged his gavel.

“No — the gentleman will suspend,” Garbarino said. “There will be no addressing anyone’s character in a negative way.”

Mullin, a former undefeated mixed martial arts fighter, then threw his own verbal punch Green’s way.

“Evidently, his constituents heard enough of him because they voted him out,” Mullin said, referring to Green’s recent primary loss to freshman Rep. Christian Menefee, D-Texas, after Texas redistricting merged their two districts.

Reaction to Green’s Rant

“Thank God this unhinged lunatic was voted out,” Libs of TikTok posted in response to the exchange.

“This is the modern Democratic Party in one clip,” political commentator Benny Johnson observed. “Green’s response? ‘Shut up, up, up, up. Shut up.’ No respect. No argument. No facts. No substance. Just ‘shut up’ and a temper tantrum. This is all they have left.”

The Republican National Committee had a simple one-word reaction on X to Green’s rant: “UNHINGED.”

As of 10 a.m., that X post had 1.4 million views.

Mullin has not commented further on Wednesday’s exchange. Green posted a clip boasting how he “confronts” Mullin. However, the post included a correction: “The individual on the poster referenced by Rep. Al Green during the hearing depicted Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine, and not Ruby Bridges, as stated.”

Confusing two Black female civil rights icons—a curious mistake to make when dubbing someone a racist.