'She just made a triangle': Internet roasts Lauren Boebert for botching cross gesture
Seated in the middle of the raging crossfire between Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) — Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) sought a higher power.
The lawmaker was seen crossing herself. Only it appears she didn't get it right.
Her unimpressive effort occurred during Thursday's House Oversight Committee hearing that was usurped by a showdown between Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) trading barbs. The original hearing was mean to discuss contempt proceedings for Attorney General Merrick Garland for blocking the release of audio tapes related to an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
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"Are your feelings hurt?" Greene taunted at one point soon after trading insults with Crockett.
"Oh girl, baby girl!" Ocasio-Cortez shot back. "Don’t even play!"
The purpose behind the gesture tracks back to ancient Christian origin where people would "bless themselves, others, or objects."
The motion features five outstretched fingers that symbolize the five wounds of Jesus Christ — on forehead, breast, and shoulders, left to right, and then the lesser sign, made with the thumb alone on the forehead, lips, and breast.
But in Boebert's attempt, the effort was abridged with her skipping the vertical motion to go straight to crossing the shoulders.
And many gave Boebert an unsatisfactory grade, calling it "Paddycake prayer" and comparing it to performing the "Macarena" dance.
Lincoln Project host, Reed Galen posted, "She doesn’t seem like the churchgoing type."
"9 out of 10 idiots can do that correctly," @OurShallowState tweeted.
"She was summoning a car in GTA (her left hand was holding L1 L2)," reads a post by @TheThiny.
Erich Cervantez knocked her for the making shapes. "She just made a triangle," he tweeted.
And Cheryl Parrett wondered how Boebert botched something so rudimentary.
"I even know and I'm Agnostic," she wrote.