"Not Chopping Their Dicks Off" and 9 More: A Top 10 of Nancy Mace's Curse Words, In Her Own Words

A member of Congress is, in theory, held to a standard of public conduct. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has spent years testing where that standard actually sits.

What follows is a catalog, in her own words, of ten times Mace used profanity or crude language in public: on the House floor, in committee hearings, on live television, in confrontations caught on camera, and on her own verified social media accounts. Every quote is verbatim. Every one links to its primary source. We take no position on her politics or the disputes around her; we are cataloging what she herself said, out loud and on the record, while holding federal office.

First, though, a word on why this is a category worth cataloging at all.

Why this matters: profanity and the office

Members of Congress do not operate under ordinary rules of speech. The House sets a formal standard of decorum for its own debate, and that standard treats vulgarity as a breach, not a stylistic choice.

• The House's own floor procedures instruct that a member "should avoid impugning the motives of another Member, the Senate or a Member of the Senate, the Vice President or the President, as well as using offensive language or words that are otherwise deemed unparliamentary." The Parliamentarian's note to the decorum rule puts it even more plainly: "Members should refrain from using profanity or vulgarity in debate." (Congressional Research Service, Words Taken Down (R45866); Congressional Institute Floor Procedures Manual)
• There is an enforcement mechanism. Under Rule XVII, any member can demand that another member's "words be taken down." The Clerk reads the words back, and if the chair rules them out of order, the offending member has to sit down and, absent unanimous consent, cannot speak again for the rest of that day. (CRS, R45866)
• It is not theoretical. In 1984, Speaker Tip O'Neill was himself ruled out of order after Rep. Trent Lott demanded his words be taken down for a personal attack on Newt Gingrich. (The Washington Post) In 2023, Rep. Derrick Van Orden was rebuked from the Senate floor by both party leaders after he cursed at a group of teenage Senate pages. (CBS News)
• Beyond debate, the office itself carries a dignity standard. The House Code of Official Conduct (Rule XXIII) requires every member to "behave at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the House." (U.S. Government Publishing Office)

None of this makes cursing illegal, and most of the statements below were not spoken during formal House floor debate. They were posts, hearing outbursts, television hits, and in-person confrontations, so the "words taken down" rule did not formally reach them. One of them, the September 2025 "What the hell is your problem" shouted at Rep. Sara Jacobs, was on the floor. The point of the standards is simpler than a rulebook: they are why vulgarity from a public official reads as a breach of the office rather than ordinary talk, at a moment when public confidence in the institution already sits near record lows. Gallup put congressional approval at 10 percent in April 2026; Pew found just 17 percent of Americans trust the federal government to do what is right. (Gallup; Pew Research Center)

With that established, the list. It runs from number ten up to number one.

No. 10: "a complete shit show"

"I don't see eye to eye perfectly with any candidate. And until now I've stayed out of it. But the time has come to unite behind our nominee. To be honest, it's been a complete shit show since he left the White House."

Mace said this on January 22, 2024, announcing her endorsement of Donald Trump over Nikki Haley. The "shit show" she was describing was the state of the country under the administration she was, in the same breath, urging Republicans to replace.

Rep. Nancy Mace, official House portrait. Photo: U.S. House (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

Source: Political Wire, "Nancy Mace Endorses Trump". Full dispatch: Mace: "a complete shit show".

No. 9: "we cannot be assholes to women"

"I'm pro-life. I have a fantastic pro-life voting record, but I also understand that we cannot be assholes to women."

She said it on CNN, in a September 3, 2023 interview with Dana Bash, describing her own party's approach to abortion politics. It is one of the milder entries here, but she chose the word on national television.

Mace on CNN's State of the Union, September 3, 2023. Photo: CNN, via TheWrap.

Source: TheWrap. Full dispatch: Mace: "we cannot be assholes to women".

No. 8: "getting my ass kicked"

"Enjoying my first cup of coffee since getting my ass kicked last night, and reading about how Dems nominated the guy with the nazi tattoo."

Mace posted this to X on the morning of June 10, 2026, hours after finishing fifth in the Republican primary for South Carolina governor. This one is aimed at herself, which is rarer.

The post as it appeared on X. Source: @NancyMace. Full dispatch: Mace: "getting my ass kicked".

No. 7: "You're full of shit today"

"You're full of shit today. You're just being completely dishonest… You are being dishonest, or lying. These are important questions that the American people want answers to. And you're just dodging and talking around in generalities."

She said this on July 22, 2024, in a House Oversight Committee hearing, to Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, during sworn testimony about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. This was profanity directed at a federal witness in an official proceeding.

Mace at the House Oversight hearing, July 22, 2024. Photo: ABC News 4, via WCIV.

Source: ABC News 4, Charleston. Full dispatch: Mace to Cheatle: "You're full of shit today".

No. 6: "You have no balls"

"You are the epitome of white privilege. Coming into the Oversight Committee, spitting in our face, ignoring a congressional subpoena to be deposed… What are you afraid of? You have no balls to come up here."

January 10, 2024, again in the House Oversight Committee, this time directed at Hunter Biden after he appeared in the hearing room. A second helping of crude language aimed across a committee dais.

Mace confronts Hunter Biden at the House Oversight hearing, January 10, 2024. Photo: BizPac Review, via BizPacReview.

Source: RealClearPolitics video. Full dispatch: Mace to Hunter Biden: "You have no balls".

No. 5: "until this shit stops"

"I'm going to double down on this. I'm gonna be louder than I've ever been until this shit stops."

Mace said this to reporters on September 11, 2025, in remarks after the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Rep. Nancy Mace. Photo: ABC News 4 / Associated Press, via WCIV.

Source: Axios. Full dispatch: Mace: "louder than I've ever been until this shit stops".

No. 4: "a fucking U.S. Representative"

"This is no way to treat a fucking U.S. Representative."

According to the official police incident report from Charleston International Airport, this is what Mace said to aviation-authority officers on October 30, 2025, after a dispute over her travel. The same report records her repeatedly calling the officers "fucking incompetent." Days later, asked about it, Mace did not deny cursing. She said: "Did I drop an F-bomb? I hope I did."

Rep. Nancy Mace. Photo: ABC News 4, via WCIV.

Sources: FITSNews and ABC News 4. Full dispatches: the police report and her "I hope I did" response.

No. 3: "Fuck you. You are absolutely fucking insane."

"Fuck you. You are absolutely fucking insane. You people on the left are crazy. You're absolutely fucking crazy."

This was said to a constituent, in an Ulta Beauty store in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, on April 19, 2025. The confrontation was filmed. Mace herself posted her own video of it to X. Four separate uses of the word in three sentences, in a retail store, at a member of the public.

Video: ABC News 4 coverage of the Ulta confrontation. Sources: The Post and Courier and Mace's own video on X. Full dispatch: The Ulta confrontation.

No. 2: "invaders who jerk off on beaches in front of kids"

"I want a man who looks at me the way white liberal women look at invaders who jerk off on beaches in front of kids."

Posted to her personal X account on August 3, 2026. It pairs a sexual vulgarity with the word "invaders" for migrants, in a single sentence, from a sitting member of Congress.

I want a man who looks at me the way white liberal women look at invaders who jerk off on beaches in front of kids.

Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) August 3, 2026

Source: @NancyMace on X. Full dispatch: "I want a man...".

No. 1: "not chopping their dicks off"

"Our military should be focused on troop readiness, not chopping their dicks off - and therefore my amendment to the NDAA passed!"

On July 22, 2026, Mace posted that to her official congressional X account, attached to a video she filmed outside the Capitol. In the video, a reporter asks a policy question about the National Defense Authorization Act. Her complete answer, verbatim, was: "Yeah, we need to be getting our troops ready, not chopping their dicks off. That's it." Then she ended the interview.

It is number one because of what it is: not an off-hand curse in a hallway, but the way a lawmaker chose to describe federal military healthcare policy, in writing, on her government account, as a celebration. The amendment she was celebrating was later quietly stripped from the final negotiated NDAA. She has not commented on that.

Mace outside the Capitol, moments after the vote, in the video attached to the post.

Our military should be focused on troop readiness, not chopping their dicks off - and therefore my amendment to the NDAA passed!

Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) July 22, 2026

Source: @NancyMace on X. Full dispatch: "Not Chopping Their Dicks Off".

The rest of the record: every other one we could find

Ten was a cutoff, not a limit. Here is the rest of the profanity and crude language from Mace that is documented in the public record. Some are milder; some are contested. Each is presented in her own words, or clearly flagged when authorship is disputed, and linked to its source.

Also on the record: her own posts, hearings, and filings

"You're damn right I'm fundraising off of this." On October 4, 2023, filming a Fox Business segment inside the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, Mace said, per The Daily Beast's reporting on the segment: "You're damn right I'm fundraising off of this right now because the establishment is coming after me." The segment drew an ethics watchdog complaint over soliciting donations from the Capitol.

Source: The Daily Beast. Full dispatch: the Rotunda fundraising complaint.

"George Santos is an a--." On December 1, 2023, explaining her vote against expelling Rep. George Santos, Mace posted on X: "George Santos is an a--, who, like every other American, deserves the presumption of innocence until proven guilty in a court of law. Charges are not a conviction." She self-censored the word in her own post.

Source: The National Desk. Full dispatch: Santos "an a--".

"Here I am going the f*ck off on Jasmine Crockett." On the evening of January 14, 2025, after a House Oversight exchange in which she told Rep. Jasmine Crockett to "take it outside," Mace posted on X: "If you want to come at me for going off - yeah - here I am going the f*ck off on Jasmine Crockett to protect women, particularly rape survivors. I will always hold the line." She self-censored the word.

Sources: NBC News and The Hill. Full dispatch: "Take it outside," Crockett.

"What the hell is your problem? You are disgusting." On September 10, 2025, on the House floor during a defense-bill debate, Mace shouted at Rep. Sara Jacobs: "What the hell is your problem? You are disgusting. You are an insult." She later added on X a jab about Jacobs's appearance: "PS, I have a good surgeon if you ever want to get your nose done." She used a near-identical line at Jacobs again during the July 2026 NDAA debate: "You are absolutely ridiculous. What the hell is your problem?"

Sources: BuzzFeed and Raw Story. Full dispatch: Mace to Jacobs on the floor.

"You will have to throw my ass in jail." In a written statement filed in the Berg v. Bryant litigation, Mace wrote: "Let me be unequivocally clear: Your Honor, you will have to throw my ass in jail before I am silenced." It echoed her February 2025 House floor speech, in which she brought handcuffs to the rostrum and said, "Arrest me. Take me to jail."

Source: reproduced in the full dispatch, Mace: "Take me to jail", which links the floor-speech video and the filing.

Milder and euphemistic. A few more where she reached for a softened version of the word:

• "That is B.S." On CNN's Newsnight panel on August 15, 2024, accused of racism after mispronouncing Kamala Harris's name, Mace replied: "Oh, so now you're calling me a racist. That is B.S." (Mediaite; full dispatch)
• "You people don't give a damn about the Epstein victims." In a November 13, 2025 X reply, later reported to have been aimed at a post she did not realize was satire. (Daily Beast; full dispatch)
• "Did I drop an F-bomb? I hope I did." Her own November 3, 2025 acknowledgment of the Charleston airport cursing already logged at No. 4. (SC Public Radio; full dispatch)

Attributed to Mace, in the public record, but authorship disputed

The two items below are in the public record, but their attribution to Mace is contested and has not been independently authenticated. They come out of the ongoing Berg v. Bryant civil litigation, in which all sides deny the other's allegations and nothing has been adjudicated. We include them for completeness, clearly flagged, and link the full dispatches where the dispute is laid out. We assert neither as established fact.

• A cease-and-desist reply, attributed to Mace by Patrick Bryant. Bryant published what he says was an emailed reply from Mace to his attorney reading, in full capitals: "F*** YOU AND EVERY P**PHILE AND RPIST YOU'VE EVER REPRESENTED," signed "CNM." The email was posted by Bryant and referenced by FITSNews; it has not been independently authenticated, its authorship may be contested, and Mace denies Bryant's underlying allegations. (full dispatch, with the caveat in full)
• A text message from a contact saved as "N M." Exhibit E to Bryant's December 22, 2025 court filing in Berg v. Bryant reproduces text screenshots between a contact displayed as "N M" and Alexis Berg, including a reaction line: "holy shit; they tried to get you in a bedroom." Bryant's filing identifies "N M" as Mace; Berg and Mace deny improper coordination, and the identification is Bryant's characterization, not an independently established fact. (full dispatch, with the caveat in full)

The count, and the method

Ten was a round number, not a ceiling, and the section above shows how much more there is. Every quote in the top ten is reproduced exactly as Mace said or wrote it, and links to a primary source: her own posts and videos, official hearing footage, a police incident report, and named news outlets' reporting. The additional items are either her own documented words or, where authorship is contested, flagged plainly as such. Maceopedia takes no position on her politics or on any pending dispute. The point of a catalog is to keep the record.

Sources & related coverage

On decorum and the office

• Congressional Research Service, Words Taken Down: Calling Members to Order for Disorderly Language in the House (R45866)
• Congressional Institute, 119th Congress Floor Procedures Manual, ch. 11 (decorum, unparliamentary language)
• House Code of Official Conduct, Rule XXIII (govinfo.gov)
• The Washington Post, "Outburst" (Speaker O'Neill ruled out of order, 1984)
• CBS News, "Senate rebukes Wisconsin congressman who yelled vulgarities at high school-age pages" (2023)
• Gallup, "Disapproval of Congress Ties Record High" (April 2026)
• Pew Research Center, "Public Trust in Government: 1958-2025"

The quotes

• No. 1: Rep. Nancy Mace / @NancyMace on X, July 22, 2026
• No. 2: @NancyMace on X, August 3, 2026
• No. 3: The Post and Courier and @NancyMace on X, April 19, 2025
• No. 4: FITSNews, ABC News 4, October 30, 2025
• No. 5: Axios, September 11, 2025
• No. 6: RealClearPolitics, January 10, 2024
• No. 7: ABC News 4, July 22, 2024
• No. 8: @NancyMace on X, June 10, 2026
• No. 9: TheWrap, September 3, 2023
• No. 10: Political Wire, January 22, 2024
• Also on the record: The Daily Beast (Rotunda) · The National Desk (Santos) · NBC News (Crockett) · BuzzFeed (Jacobs) · Mediaite (CNN "B.S.")

This dispatch reproduces verbatim quotes from Nancy Mace's own public statements, videos, an official police report, and named outlets' reporting, plus two contested-authorship items clearly flagged as such. It offers no clinical or personal characterization of Mace and takes no position on any pending litigation.