Freak Show: Trump's Error-Filled Speech to Congress Stoked the Chaos [View all]
As usual, Donald Trump’s speech to Congress Tuesday was filled with falsehoods, exaggerations and insults, though Democratic legislators did not cover themselves with glory, either, with one exception: freshman Sen. Elissa Slotkin, who effectively delivered the party’s rebuttal speech.
Democratic Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) was removed from the House floor after refusing to stop heckling Trump—a violation of decorum worse than a single shout of “You Lie!” At Barack Obama in 2009 by Republican Rep. Joe Wilson (S.C) Wilson later apologized. Green did not.
Normally, opposition members would applaud the announcement of the arrest of a Taliban operative who planned the killing of 13 American servicemen or the appointment of a 13-year-old cancer survivor as an honorary Secret Service agent. Democrats did not applaud after any of Trump’s remarks.
To the contrary, one Democrat yelled at Trump, “Lies, lies, lies” and several others carried signs reading “Musk steals,” “Save Medicaid” and “No King.” Others walked out, especially when Trump said that Joe Biden was “the worst president in American history.” No student of history, Trump didn’t factor in Andrew Johnson or James Buchanan.
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