community-note

Mockery & memes

• The national-debt note

  Mace sounded the alarm on the national debt hitting $37 trillion, then received a Community Note pointing out she had just voted for the 'One Big Beautiful Bill,' which the Congressional Budget Office projected would add roughly $4.5 trillion to the deficit.

  August 13, 2025 · Mockery

• The Declaration of Independence gaffe

  On the eve of July 4, 2025, Mace posted disbelief that Hakeem Jeffries would call the Declaration of Independence an 'indictment', a claim that earned a Community Note and widespread ridicule, since the document's central section is a formal list of grievances against King George III.

  July 3, 2025 · Mockery

• 'Due process is for citizens'

  Mace's X post 'Due process is for citizens' drew wide attention and a Community Note explaining that the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments protect all 'persons' on U.S. soil, not only citizens. Critics also resurfaced her February 2023 post: 'Everyone deserves the right to due process.'

  June 10, 2025 · Mockery

• The 'All-Gender Restroom' note

  Mace posted a photo of herself outside an 'All-Gender Restroom' sign in Austin, Texas, calling it evidence that 'there are only two.' A Community Note clarified that all-gender restrooms are single-occupancy, ADA-compliant facilities intended for anyone regardless of gender, drawing mockery from CNN's Andy Kaczynski and others.

  May 7, 2025 · Mockery

• The Citadel 'first woman' note

  Mace invoked being 'the first woman to graduate from The Citadel' to oppose trans rights, drawing both a Community Note (a woman earned a Citadel graduate degree in 1970) and, separately, conservative commentator Matt Walsh's argument that The Citadel's forced admission of women made her a 'DEI graduate' by the same logic she was deploying.

  January 28, 2025 · Mockery