Trump Throws Hissy Fit at Dems a Full Day After Their Speech Protests
The president said the Republicans could use footage from Tuesday night to boost their future campaigns.
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President Donald Trump lashed out against Democrats Wednesday night for the antics they pulled at his address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday.
Trump took to Truth Social to flame his opposition and urge the Republican Party to use his Tuesday night speech as fuel for future elections.
“The Democrats should lose the Midterms based on their behavior at last night’s Joint Address to Congress,” the president said in a lengthy post.
Trump echoed other conservatives who took issue with Democrats’ decision to stay seated and in many cases refuse to acknowledge the president’s guests during his speech, including the mothers of two young women who were killed by undocumented migrants and a terminally ill 13-year-old boy who was made an honorary Secret Service agent.
“Republicans should utilize the footage provided on the total disrespect they showed to all of those that were honored that night,” Trump said. “They didn’t even have the common courtesy to stand, smile, or applaud.”
“This could be, on analyzing the full tape of this Historic Event, your full CAMPAIGN TO VICTORY!” the president continued. “In other words, Republicans can take what happened last night, and win any Race in the Country. Good Luck!!!”
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Early into Trump’s roughly 99-minute-long speech, Texas Rep. Al Green was kicked out of the chamber for screaming that the president had “no mandate” to cut Medicaid and refusing to heed House Speaker Mike Johnson’s order to sit down and “maintain decorum.”
“This is my fifth such speech to Congress, and once again, I look at the Democrats in front of me and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy or to make them stand or smile or applaud,” Trump said after the incident.
“These people sitting right here will not clap, will not stand, and certainly will not cheer for these astronomical achievements. They won’t do it no matter what… and it just shouldn’t be this way,” he added.
UNITED STATES - MARCH 4: Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, is asked to leave by an aide as he heckles President Donald Trump during an address to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
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Several other Democratic lawmakers, including Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Ilhan Omar, walked out of the chamber as Trump spoke.
Other Democrats stayed in their seats holding up signs that read “Musk Steals,” “Save Medicaid,” and “Protect Veterans.”
After, the White House blasted liberal lawmakers, saying “Democrats showed whose side they’re on—and it’s not the American people.”
“Congressional Democrats were too consumed by their own hatred of President Trump, refusing to show support for lowering taxes, fighting childhood cancer, capturing terrorists, protecting women and girls in sports, or law and order — to name only a few,” the White House said in a statement.
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 04: Rep. Rashida Tlaib, left, joins fellow Democrats in holding up signs to protest President Donald Trump as he addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol.
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Even within Democratic circles, the protests were not well-received.
One Democratic strategist told the Daily Beast that the optics were “amateurish” and “pitiful.”
Sen. John Fetterman also criticized his own party for the “sad cavalcade of self owns and unhinged petulance” that he claimed “only makes Trump look more presidential and restrained.”
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