Representative Al Greene, D-Texas, disrupts President Trump’s address to a joint session of the Congress at the Washington Capitol on March 4.
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The Democratic representative of Texas Al Green was withdrawn from the Chamber of the Chamber after having heckled President Trump during his first speech to a joint session of the congress of his second term.
Although the legislators of the opposition party have vocal summer Since their seats During previous presidential allowances, the withdrawal of Green from the Chamber marked a struck rupture of tradition.
Green got up and started to shout on Trump after the president referred to his electoral victory in 2024 and said he had received a mandate from the American people. Green first received a warning from the president of the Mike Johnson room and when he did not stop was escorted by the sergeant of arms.
The Texas Democrat has repeatedly shouted that the president had no mandate.
“It is worth letting people know that there are people who will get up (in Trump),” Green told journalists outside the room.
Other legislators have led to quieter demonstrations. A group of democratic women wearing t-shirts reading “resist” came out of the president’s speech, as well as other Democrats during the fact that the speech continued. Others agitated black signs saying “false”.
Democrats are the minority party in the Senate and the House of Representatives. Many legislators appeared during demonstrations in response to radical changes in the Trump administration to the federal government.
