Top White House counselor Kellyanne Conway doubled down Monday on President Trump’s assertion that some governors have “gone too far” with coronavirus restrictions — saying that Michigan lets residents smoke their “grass” but not cut it.

“Some of these governors have basically physically distanced from common sense,” Conway said during an appearance on Fox News.

“In Michigan, you can basically smoke your grass but not cut your grass. This makes no sense to many people.”

Voters in the Wolverine State approved legalizing recreational marijuana in 2018, and sales began Dec. 1.

Conway also defended the people who have been protesting COVID-19 lockdown orders, saying that “for them, this is not fomenting domestic rebellion.”

“I look at those people and I see the forgotten men and forgotten women, economically,” she said.

“They’re saying, ‘Look, I’m in a low-infection area, I’m asymptomatic, not exposed, I want to get back to work.’”

Conway said that many governors were “working on that,” before adding, “But some have been more concerned about, I think, controlling the populations than protecting them, and the president is just making that clear.”

When asked if the White House was concerned that protesters may be spreading the coronavirus, Conway responded that Trump “took great action, the president took immediate action by banning travel from China under tremendous criticism, including by full-on members of the, quote, hashtag resistance in the media, many of them.”

“And he has saved millions of lives by so doing,” she added.

Conway also questioned whether the “entire government and our economy” needed to be “shut down until we have a vaccine.”

“That’s really the balance people have to know,” she said.

“We have to learn how to live with the virus while we’re doing testing, while we’re developing therapeutics, while we’re developing a vaccine.”

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