Comic Dave Chappelle wasn’t going to take Rep. Lauren Boebert’s antics standing up.
Chappelle granted a selfie with the Colorado Republican on the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, however Boebert transformed it into an anti-trans message on X (née Twitter), according to a number of news outlets.
Alongside a photograph with the comic and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), Boebert wrote: “Simply three individuals who perceive that there’s solely two genders.”
Although Chappelle has been accused of using transphobic material in his exhibits, he reportedly was not happy to be related to Boebert’s message.
He mentioned throughout his standup act at Capital One Area in Washington that he granted the picture request by Boebert for a human second to bridge the political divide however felt “blindsided” by her, in response to a progressive influencers’ weblog.
“It’s a disgrace she tricked me,” Chappelle mentioned, in response to Call to Activism. “I had two tickets to ’Beetlejuice’ and I used to be going to offer her one!”
“Beetlejuice” was the musical that led to public ridicule beingheaped on Boebert. She and her date have been ejected from a efficiency of the musical adaptation in Denver for groping, vaping and speaking in the course of the present.
Politico’s Kevin Baron, who mentioned he was at Chappelle’s present, wrote on X that the comic “made intelligent wink-nod jokes about his historical past of trans jokes and mentioned one thing like, ‘Simply once I thought we have been previous that, she dragged me again in!’ ”
A spokesperson for Boebert informed HuffPost on Friday that Chappelle “might be ticked all he needs. That’s the fact of the state of affairs. There are solely two genders.”
HuffPost additionally reached out to Chappelle for remark.
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