Rep. Maxine Waters Maxine Moore WatersPowell, Mnuchin stress limits of current emergency lending programs Pelosi: House will stay in session until agreement is reached on coronavirus relief Omar invokes father's death from coronavirus in reaction to Woodward book MORE (D-Calif.) called President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?' Romney: 'Unthinkable and unacceptable' to not commit to peaceful transition of power Two Louisville police officers shot amid Breonna Taylor grand jury protests MORE the "poster boy for what a mob protester looks like" after the president and other GOP leaders compared protests last week to a form of "mob rule."

Waters made the remarks during a Tuesday night appearance on MSNBC's "All In With Chris Hayes," accusing Trump of being "violent in his speech" and arguing that things he has said are far worse than the activities of those protesting Brett Kavanaugh Brett Michael KavanaughHarris faces pivotal moment with Supreme Court battle Poll: 59 percent think president elected in November should name next Supreme Court justice Feinstein 'surprised and taken aback' by suggestion she's not up for Supreme Court fight MORE's confirmation to the Supreme Court.

She read off his comments from a February 2016 campaign rally, at which he encouraged his supporters to "punch" a protester "in the face," in making her point.

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"That’s the kind of talk that he has done," Waters said. "That’s violent talk. We don’t have that kind of talk who has come from the women who are protesting."

Progressive and women's groups last week organized protests against Kavanaugh that were attended by thousands. Kavanaugh was confirmed by the Senate after a bruising battle dominated by sexual misconduct allegations against him that he vehemently denied. '

The groups at one point flooded the Senate Hart Building, resulting in more than 300 arrests by Capitol Hill.

They engaged in multiple protest tactics, including confronting lawmakers on Capitol Hill and in public spaces, which Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellFEC flags McConnell campaign over suspected accounting errors Poll: 59 percent think president elected in November should name next Supreme Court justice Mark Kelly: Arizona Senate race winner should be sworn in 'promptly' MORE compared to "assault."

McConnell and other Republicans have moved on by arguing that Democrats are being ruled by a liberal mob that should not be given majorities in the House and Senate. It's an attempt to rev up their own base ahead of the midterm elections.

"I think it’s absolutely ridiculous and it is not believable," Waters said of McConnell's and the president's comments. "We cannot allow Donald Trump and anybody else to take protest away from us and to deem it to be violent and to try and make us look like a mob."

She said the country was built on "peaceful protest."

"As a matter of fact, this country is past due for the kind of protest that we have seen women do in the last few days as we have gone through the information process of Kavanaugh," Waters said. "It is time for women to say, 'We are tired of being disrespected.'"

"This sexual assault that so many have gotten away with for so long is over," she added. "The Me Too movement has gotten us started, the marches that we’ve been doing. We’re not going to back down. You’re not going to intimidate us, you’re not gonna frighten us."

Waters is one of Trump's harshest critics in the House and has previously called for his impeachment.

Trump frequently hits Waters at public events, calling her the new "leader of the Democratic party" and claiming she has a "low IQ."