December 11 2025, 08:15 
Anti-LGBTQ+ Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), who is running for South Carolina governor, is now claiming that police “falsified” a report that said she turned a minor miscommunication at the Charleston International Airport into a swear-filled “spectacle” that left airport employees visibly upset.
CNN anchorwoman Kaitlan Collins recently asked Mace about the October 30 incident, in which a miscommunication about the color of her vehicle led airport security workers to miss meeting and escorting her through expedited security.
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A police report of the incident said that Mace called police “f**king idiots” and “f**king incompetent”; proclaimed that she is a “f**king representative”; and told a TSA supervisor, ‘I’m sick of your s**t…. You guys are always f**king late and this is f**king ridiculous.”
“The report was actually falsified,” Mace claimed. “I’ve never called a cop an idiot. That is a remarkably false statement. I am absolutely saying that that report was falsified. 100% fictitious, falsified. I have never called someone an idiot. That is shocking to me. I use vulgar language frequently. The president does. I do express my frustration. I do take responsibility for my words, I always have. But the idea that I would call somebody an idiot? I have never done that in my life, and to me it was an incredible hit job. It was effective, it was a very effective political hit job, but that’s all that it was.”
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Mace: I back the blue…
— Acyn (@Acyn) December 10, 2025
Collins: The police quote you in this report as you calling them effing idiots and effing incompetent, while stating that you're an effing representative and telling a TSA supervisor: I'm sick of your shit. I'm tired of having to wait. I should not have… pic.twitter.com/qYm2yk5hxm
Mace has accused the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Charleston International Airport security (CHS) workers of conspiring against her in “a disturbing abuse of power and a clear case of political retaliation.”
She has claimed that her selection for additional airport security screening was “the stuff of the DEEP STATE and BIG BROTHER,” and claimed that her lawsuit against the airport “may bring South Carolina’s Attorney General down in flames with it, and several others.”
However, local police, her fellow state Republicans, and at least one conservative commentator seem to think she is behaving in inappropriate and “embarrassing” ways, and may also be struggling with mental health.
“The general feeling is that there is something unwell about her,” an anonymous House Republican recently told CNN’s anchorperson Jake Tapper. “She’s really going through a crisis. It’s sad. Clearly, there is something going on with her.”
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