Hate Speech
“Hate speech” is the label Nancy Mace’s critics, colleagues, and civil rights groups have repeatedly applied to the statements collected here. This page does not adjudicate that label. It documents what she actually said, verbatim and dated, organized by who the remark was about, beside the named people who applied the label and her own words in her defense. The statements are hers. The judgment is yours.
How to read this page
Every quote below is Nancy Mace’s own, verbatim, with its date and source. Where colleagues, advocacy groups, or outlets have called a remark “racist,” “bigoted,” “Islamophobic,” or “antisemitic,” that language is theirs, quoted and attributed to the named speaker in the final section below; Maceopedia adopts none of it and adds no label of its own. Her own denials and her contrary statements are collected in their own section below, not buried as a footnote. Some items are contested or were fact-checked; those notes are attributed. Where a statement is one of her own posts, a screenshot of the post is shown beneath the quote and links to the original on X. This page is updated as the public record grows.
Muslims and Islam
Her own dated statements about Muslims and Islam, in chronological order. Each quote links to the post, statement, or on-site dispatch it is drawn from.
“Not all muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are muslims.”
· Her own post on X (@NancyMace) · on Maceopedia
· Backing a Texas woman who confronted two hijab wearing Muslim U.S. citizens at an H-E-B grocery store · source
“Republicans must treat the rise of Islamic radicalism as another 9/11.”
· Campaign fundraising email, subject line “Stop Muslim radicals,” about New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani · source
“Why did Ilhan Omar marry her brother? Immigration fraud? Brotherly love?”
· Her @RepNancyMace post about Rep. Ilhan Omar, with an attached Fox News video clip, posted during Mace’s push to censure her · on Maceopedia
“My heart goes out to Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib tonight. Sending them thoughts and prayers.”
· Her @RepNancyMace post attaching a Fox News graphic that reported Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei dead · on Maceopedia
Her own counter-framing: Mace has also written, in her own words, that “being against radical Islam isn’t Islamophobia. Banning Sharia Law isn’t Islamophobia.” That statement, and the rest of her contrary record, is collected in full in the counter-record section below.
Somalia and Rep. Ilhan Omar
Rep. Ilhan Omar was born in Somalia and became a naturalized United States citizen in 2000. Twice, nine months apart, Mace has told Omar, in her own words, to leave for or be deported to Somalia.
“One-way ticket to Somalia with your name on it, Ilhan Omar.”
· Her own post on X (@RepNancyMace), during her push to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar · on Maceopedia
“There would be no better 250th birthday present to America than seeing Somalia-first Ilhan Omar deported.”
· Her own post on X (@RepNancyMace), six days after her fifth place finish in the South Carolina gubernatorial primary · on Maceopedia
Snopes, fact-checking the second post, noted that United States citizens, naturalized or natural-born, are not subject to deportation.
Immigrants and the Foreign Born
Her own statements introducing legislation aimed at naturalized citizens serving in government and at immigration more broadly.
· Announcing H.J.Res.188, a proposed constitutional amendment to bar naturalized citizens from Congress, the federal bench, and Senate confirmed offices, naming Reps. Ilhan Omar, Shri Thanedar, and Pramila Jayapal · on Maceopedia
“If you import the third world, you will become the third world.”
· Official statement introducing her Third World Immigration Moratorium Act; the same release added, “We are not a dumping ground for the third world’s problems.” · on Maceopedia
Race and the Black Caucus
Her own statements on race, from her 2026 resolution targeting the Congressional Black, Hispanic, and Asian Pacific American Caucuses to a 2024 exchange on CNN.
“Race-based caucuses are not diversity. They are federally sanctioned segregation.”
· On her resolution to dissolve the Congressional Black, Hispanic, and Asian Pacific American Caucuses · on Maceopedia
· Official statement on the same resolution · on Maceopedia
“I am not going to weigh in on her race.”
· On CNN, declining to call out of bounds Donald Trump’s claim that Kamala Harris “turned Black”; in the same segment she said, “I didn’t say it, and I would not say it,” and later, “Oh, so now you’re calling me racist.” · on Maceopedia
Transgender People
Her own dated statements about transgender people, in chronological order. The slur she used on the House Oversight Committee record is rendered “tr*nny” below, asterisked, the same house convention used elsewhere on this site for the identical quote.
· House Oversight Committee hearing, directed at Rep. Gerry Connolly, who had objected to her use of the slur · on Maceopedia
· Press event introducing her resolution barring transgender women from Capitol restrooms, a week before McBride’s swearing in as the first openly transgender member of Congress · on Maceopedia
· Her own post on X (@RepNancyMace), replying to a transgender person’s transition photo · on Maceopedia
“So when was your gender revealed to you, Dr. Hartig?”
· House Oversight hearing, questioning Smithsonian museum director Dr. Anthea Hartig · on Maceopedia
“These people are violently ill and should be in a straitjacket with a hard steel lock on it.”
· Street interview, of transgender people, while claiming the man arrested in the killing of Charlie Kirk had been “radicalized” by the transgender community; the Congressional Equality Caucus said Mace and Rep. Ronny Jackson were “calling for transgender people to be locked up against their will and institutionalized” · on Maceopedia
· House Oversight hearing, addressed to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser · on Maceopedia
“Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.”
· Her own post on X (@NancyMace) while campaigning for South Carolina governor, three years after she voted for the Respect for Marriage Act · on Maceopedia
“The Smithsonian National Museum of American History has drag queens on display in front of children and a glossary telling visitors other countries recognize three or more genders.”
· Her own post on X (@RepNancyMace), sharing a Fox News segment on Smithsonian museum director Dr. Anthea Hartig, two days after Mace questioned Hartig at a House Oversight hearing (above) · source
“If you think your child is trans, your child should be removed from your home to safety.”
· Her own post on X from her personal account (@NancyMace) · on Maceopedia
“In no world should children ever be taught their genitalia is “removable.””
· Her own post on X (@RepNancyMace) · source
“Just because you’re mentally ill doesn’t mean the rest of America has to play along. A man is a man. A woman is a woman.”
· Her own post on X (@RepNancyMace) · source
Fact-check, attributed: The American Psychiatric Association’s DSM-5 does not classify being transgender as a mental illness. It recognizes only “gender dysphoria,” the clinically significant distress some transgender people feel, and its 2013 edition renamed the earlier “gender identity disorder” specifically to avoid labeling the identity itself a disorder. The World Health Organization’s ICD-11 moved “gender incongruence” out of its mental-disorders chapter in 2019, reclassifying it under conditions related to sexual health. Several posts above describe transgender identity as mental illness; that characterization is contested by those two medical bodies, and is attributed here to them, not adopted by Maceopedia.
Jewish Voters
Mace has an extensive pro-Israel and anti-antisemitism public record, collected in full in the counter-record section below. These two items, one interview and one 2025 floor-fight remark, are the only Jewish-directed statements of hers that drew public accusations, and both are presented here with that context.
· On Piers Morgan Uncensored, about Jewish New Yorkers who voted for Mayor Zohran Mamdani · on Maceopedia
“I think it is self-loathing.”
· Same interview, repeating the charge after Morgan called it “an extraordinary charge”; Israel’s UN ambassador Danny Danon, asked twice, declined to agree · on Maceopedia
“I have a good surgeon if you ever want to get your nose done.”
· The closing line of her @RepNancyMace post to Rep. Sara Jacobs during a floor fight (visible in the screenshot under “Show more”); Jacobs, who has Jewish family, and two Jewish advocacy groups called the remark antisemitic (attributed below); Mace framed it as a reply to a comment Jacobs made about her body · source
The Counter-Record, Also in Her Words
Fairness requires her own contrary words, verbatim.
“What I’m not is a religious bigot (or racist).”
· Replying to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, after Mace criticized a colleague’s anti-Muslim remark about Rep. Ilhan Omar · on Maceopedia
“Being against radical Islam isn’t Islamophobia. Banning Sharia Law isn’t Islamophobia.”
· Her own post on X (@RepNancyMace), quote-posting the journalist Mehdi Hasan · source
“You either stand with Israel and the Jewish people, or you’re siding with terrorists like Hamas. There’s no middle ground. Antisemitism is vile, and defending it is indefensible.”
· Her own post on X (@RepNancyMace), quote-posting a clip of Secretary of State Marco Rubio · source
She also voted for the Respect for Marriage Act in 2022, three years before her “Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve” post above. Her supporters call her positions consistent; her critics call them contradictory. Both views are attributed, not adopted, here.
What Named Critics Have Said
The characterizations below are the speakers’ own, quoted verbatim with dates and sources. Maceopedia adopts none of them.
The Tri-Caucus and House Democratic leadership
“Racist and a shameless attempt to silence the voices of minorities.”
On the Congressional Black, Hispanic, and Asian Pacific American Caucuses resolution, in a joint statement from the Congressional Tri-Caucus and House Democratic leadership, Reps. Yvette Clarke, Adriano Espaillat, Grace Meng, Hakeem Jeffries, Katherine Clark, and Pete Aguilar, July 23, 2026. The same statement added that Mace “has repeatedly made racist and bigoted comments about minority communities over the course of her tenure in Congress.” Full statement, jeffries.house.gov
Rep. Pramila Jayapal
“Racist legislation that denies the very history of a country that has been proudly shaped by immigrants.”
On H.J.Res.188, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, one of the members it names, May 2026, who also called the measure “narrow-minded, xenophobic.” Common Dreams
Rep. Sara Jacobs, the Nexus Project, and the Jewish Democratic Council of America
“Telling a Jewish woman to get a nose job is antisemitism. Full stop.”
On the September 11, 2025 “nose” remark, Rep. Sara Jacobs, the Nexus Project, and the Jewish Democratic Council of America each called it antisemitic, Sept. 2025. Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The New Republic
On the “marrying your brother” post about Rep. Ilhan Omar, The New Republic wrote that the line revived a longstanding trope about Omar, Sept. 2025. The New Republic
Fact-checks, attributed
Snopes fact-checked the June 2026 “deport Omar” post and noted that United States citizens are not subject to deportation. PolitiFact rated Mace’s claim that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani would impose Sharia law False. Both fact-checks are attributed here to the named outlet that published them.
These are quotations and dated public records, not findings. No court or licensed body has adjudicated whether any statement collected here meets a legal definition of hate speech, discrimination, or harassment. Mace disputes the characterizations applied to her by the critics quoted above; her own denials and contrary statements are collected in the counter-record section. Nothing here is a finding of fact.
Related Pages
This page catalogs public statements, quoted verbatim from Nancy Mace’s own posts, interviews, and filings, beside attributed responses and her own contrary words. Maceopedia makes no legal or clinical finding. Allegations that remain contested are noted as such.