In the three days since getting snubbed by President Donald Trump in her bid for South Carolina governor, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has gone on a social media posting blitz, publishing several dozen messages defending her record in Congress in what some critics described as a “crashout.”
“Should we be genuinely worried about her?” asked novelist and podcast host John Daly in a social media post on X.

A fierce defender of Trump, Mace had drawn the ire of the president in recent months for having pushed for the release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein and for having criticized the president’s deeply unpopular war against Iran. And last Friday, Trump decided not to endorse her in her race for South Carolina governor, instead giving his blessing to Pam Evette, the state’s lieutenant governor.
In the days since, Mace has posted dozens of times on social media, though one post in particular drew heightened attention.
“IRON LADY,” Mace wrote Sunday night, along with an image of what appears to be a campaign poster featuring herself in front of the South Carolina State Capitol with her hair in a traditional bouffant, a hairstyle popular in the 1950s and 1960s.
“So, we can all see she’s having a mental breakdown, right?” asked political writer and anti-disinformation activist Jim Stewartson on Monday in a social media post on X to his nearly 150,000 followers. "Anyway, please get help Nancy."
Even conservatives were taken aback by what onlookers characterized as Mace’s bizarre post.
“You’re watching a person completely lose touch with reality in real time,” wrote Justin Evans, senior vice president of Big Dog Strategies and GOP political consultant. “You’ve never witnessed a crashout this severe in your life.”


