hornets' nest

“Do we really want to rattle the hornet’s nest?” if Trump wins, asked Regent José Hernández.

Nonprofit laws bar institutions from engaging in electoral politics and holding political fund-raisers, a hornet’s nest the Queens Museum ran into this past summer when it appeared to cancel and then reinstate an Israel-sponsored event after accusations of anti-Semitism.

“The Metastasis operation is like kicking the hornet’s nest,” said Gustavo Flores-Macías, a professor of government and public policy at Cornell University who specializes in Latin America.

They’re still no match for a guy who can wipe out a hornet’s nest with a stun gun.

“It would be like kicking the hornet’s nest for the court to get into the merits of this,” Gerhardt said.