Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D., Texas) "liked" Facebook comments referring to wheelchair-bound Texas governor Greg Abbott as "hot wheels" in 2021—a year before he started busing migrants to Democratic cities, the policy Crockett said she was referring to when she called Abbott "hot wheels" herself.
"We in these hot ass Texas streets, honey. Y’all know we got Governor Hot Wheels down there. Come on now! And the only thing hot about him is that he's a hot-ass mess, honey! Yes, yes, yes, yes!" Crockett said to applause at a Human Rights Campaign event on Saturday.
After clips of Crockett's remarks went viral on Tuesday, the congresswoman denied that they referenced the governor's condition. "I wasn’t thinking about the governor’s condition—I was thinking about the planes, trains, and automobiles he used to transfer migrants into communities led by Black mayors, deliberately stoking tension and fear among the most vulnerable," Crockett wrote on X.
But Crockett was aware—and supportive—of the derisive label for the governor before he began the migrant transfers.
"Hot wheels something else," reads a June 2021 Facebook comment that Crockett "liked" on the platform. The comment was a reply to a Crockett post about Abbott.
That same month, Crockett reacted with a heart emoji to a comment that said, referring to Abbott, "When I say I sick of hot wheels....I am SICK OF HIM."
A month later in July 2021, Crockett reacted with a positive emoji to a commenter who urged her to "Keep making Gov Hot Wheels Mad."
Abbott became paralyzed from the waist down after suffering an accident during law school. While on a run in 1984, an oak tree snapped and fell on him, breaking his back and injuring internal organs.
Crockett delivered her remarks during the 2025 Human Rights Campaign Los Angeles Dinner, a fundraising and promotional event for the organization. She foreshadowed her insult at the top of her speech.
"Listen, if you’ve ever paid any attention to me, y’all know that I always have remarks and something else happens. And so we’re going to do just a couple of remarks, and then something else is going to happen," Crockett said. "Y’all just pray for me because who knows what I’m going to end up saying."
Crockett’s rhetoric toward Republicans has become increasingly aggressive in recent weeks. On Monday, she said Democrats need to be "O.K. with punching" if they want to win their elections.
"The reality is we're dealing with an administration that is lawless and disrespectful and so the idea that we're still going to be nice and friendly and kind and try to look for some sense of normalcy when we're literally living in a time that is anything but normal. I think that we've got to get comfortable with letting our hair down a little bit," Crockett told NBC 5's Phil Prazan and Gromer Jeffers of the Dallas Morning News.
Her office didn't return a request for comment.