Michigan Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib created a spectacle at President Donald Trump’s address to Congress this week, taunting the 47^th POTUS over taxes just over a decade after her own troubles.

Tlaib, a member of the progressive left-wing congressional coalition known as “The Squad,” brought a white board to Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday to respond to the president’s remarks in real time.

Throughout the roughly 100-minute speech Tlaib scribbled messages that included “No King!” and “That’s a lie!” but there was one message in particular that will undoubtedly conjure flashbacks for her constituents at home: “Start by paying your taxes.”

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Tlaib displayed that message amid a thunderous applause in response to Trump’s tax plans, despite her history of unpaid property taxes in Wayne County not long ago.

In April 2014, then state Rep. Rashida Tlaib was forced to pay the county and a local charity a total of $4,550 for underpaying property taxes on a rental property in Dearborn for six years, the Battle Creek Enquirer reported at the time.

Tlaib, who was running for state Senate, claimed a 100% personal residence exemption for the property as well as her Detroit home, a double deduction she blamed on her husband.

“She paid $1,866 to Wayne County and $2,684 to the United Community Housing Coalition, a nonprofit that provides housing assistance to low-income residents in Detroit, records show,” according to the Enquirer.

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“Tlaib, an attorney, said her husband mistakenly signed the affidavit claiming the homestead exemption in Dearborn, but that she should have caught the error and she accepts full responsibility for it.”

Tlaib claimed it was all just an honest mistake, made possible by a flawed system.

“It actually was very much a wake-up call for many people,” Tlaib told the news site. “It’s a very easy mistake to make.”

While the underpayments dated back to 2008, a three-year statute of limitations restricted how much Wayne County could collect, so Tlaib contributed the missed taxes for the earlier years to the housing coalition.

The situation effectively short-changed Wayne County residents, while allowing Tlaib to avoid paying her fair share for years.

The irony of Tlaib’s grandstanding on Tuesday did not go unnoticed by Michiganders online, including some who leveraged her whiteboard to send a different message.

“I’m old enough to remember when Rep. Rashida Tlaib thought she was exempt from paying property taxes for six years on her rental property,” X user Heather Dow posted. “The debt went back so far that Wayne County could only collect four of the six years owed.”

The post included an image of Tlaib at Trump’s speech holding her white board, edited to display the message: “I thought I was exempt from paying my property taxes for six years!”

Tlaib’s colleagues also were not impressed by her antics.

Rep. Nancy Grace, R-SC, posted an image to X of Tlaib with her tax message, labeling the Detroit congresswoman as the “poster child of TDS,” referring to Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Tlaib, of course, wasn’t the only Democrat to protest the POTUS’ remarks on Tuesday.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., was forced to eject Rep. Al Green after the Texas Democrat began to heckle Trump less than 10 minutes into his address, Fox News reports.

Others held up pre-printed signs with messages that included “false,” “Musk steals,” and “Save Medicaid.”

“If anyone is thinking that it was an effective strategy, they’re probably in an echo chamber,” Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, told Axios. “My take is that the average American thought the optics were pretty bad.”

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., described the antics from his party on Tuesday as a “sad cavalcade of self owns and unhinged petulance.”

“It only makes Trump look more presidential and restrained,” Fetterman posted to X. “We’re becoming the metaphorical car alarms that nobody pays attention to – and it may not be the winning message.”