In this dystopian MAGA era of American politics, we’ve become all too accustomed to nonsensical and deranged chirping from our elected representatives. Here in Tennessee, no other politician in Congress quite encapsulates this like Rep. Andy Ogles.
Since taking his seat in the U.S. House in 2023, Ogles, a Republican and self-proclaimed Christian nationalist representing the 5th District in Nashville, has partaken in numerous political antics, drawing an unwanted spectacle to Tennessee.
The representative has called for a restructuring of the Constitution’s 22nd Amendment to allow for President Donald Trump to run for a third term in 2028. “If the man who created the disastrous ‘New Deal’ gets more than two terms, then the man who created ‘The Art of the Deal’ should get the same,” Ogles said in an X post last March.
He has introduced articles of impeachment against several judges who have ruled against Trump. In a video clip he posted on social media, with Travis Scott’s “Sicko Mode” playing in the background, Ogles puts a copy of one of the judge’s decisions through a paper shredder.
Well before Trump’s most recent threats to seize Greenland from Denmark — he initially refused to rule out military annexation if need be — even before the president was inaugurated, Ogles, calling the U.S. “the dominant predator,” introduced the Make Greenland Great Again Act as an attempt to authorize Trump’s imperial pursuit of the autonomous island territory.