Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) threw a temper tantrum at the Charleston International Airport Thursday, loudly cursing and berating police officers simply trying to escort her to the gate, according to an incident report.
The two Charleston County Aviation Authority Police Department officers who bore the brunt of Mace’s fury had been waiting for the congresswoman’s “white BMW” to arrive at the airport curb so they could whisk her to her gate, but never saw the vehicle arrive, the report obtained by The Post explains.
The officers were notified that the 47-year-old Republican had arrived just 15 minutes after they were expecting the congresswoman and Republican candidate for governor of South Carolina at the curb.
Less than a minute later, the officers encountered a “very irate” Mace waiting for them at the airport’s TSA Known Crewmember entrance, the report notes.
“During the entire escort, Rep. Mace was talking loudly using profanity at times for others to hear,” the narrative of the incident reads.
“It appeared she was either dictating a message into her phone or talking to someone about the situation.”
The two officers tasked with making sure Mace safely got to her gate went into more detail in separate statements.
“She immediately began loudly cursing and making derogatory comments to us and about the department,” one officer wrote. “She repeatedly stated we were ‘f–king incompetent’ and ‘this is no way to treat a f–king US representative.’”
“The entire walk to gate B-8 she was cursing and complaining.”
Mace continued “her tirade” at the gate as the officers waited for her to board her flight.
The officer noted: “Any other person in the airport acting and talking the way she did, our department would have been dispatched and we would have addressed the behavior.”
Mace’s behavior apparently left an American Airlines gate agent “in disbelief,” and a TSA supervisor told the officers that Mace “talked to several TSA Agents the same way.”
After reviewing security footage from the curb, the officer determined that Mace was dropped off at the airport in a different color BMW.
In a nearly identical account of the incident, the second officer noted that Mace stated: “Tim Scott would not be f–king treated this way,” referring to South Carolina’s junior GOP senator.
Mace’s office and spokesperson for her gubernatorial campaign did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
“Apparently, simply arriving at an airport now makes headlines if you’re leading the race for Governor,” Cameron Morabito, the Mace campaign’s director of operations, said in a statement.
“We are forced to take the Congresswoman’s safety extremely seriously,” he added. “After the world watched Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the threats against her have only intensified.”
“Our security procedures are based solely on legitimate safety concerns, and any attempt to politicize this reality is both dangerous and reckless.”
The congresswoman referenced the incident in a series of X posts, including one which appears to contain surveillance footage of her arriving at the airport.
“BREAKING NEWS: Nancy Mace arrives at the airport – with no security. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” she wrote.
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, who is running in the GOP primary for governor against Mace, accused Mace of “disrespecting the men and women who keep our airports safe.”
Wilson described Mace’s alleged behavior as “unacceptable.”
“Law enforcement and TSA agents show up every day to protect the public, and right now they’re not even getting paid. They deserve respect and appreciation. Not profanity. Not threats. Not tantrums,” the AG said in a statement.
In response, Mace tweeted: “I wish Alan Wilson spent as much time prosecuting p*dophiles as he does spying on me at the airport.”
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