Posted on Tuesday, March 4, 2025
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Five years after former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) tore up President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech after he had finished, Democrats are reportedly planning to disrupt Trump’s 2025 address to a joint session of Congress with the same kind of partisan malice.
“Some members have told colleagues they may walk out of the chamber when Trump says specific lines they find objectionable, lawmakers told Axios,” the media outlet reported.
Using props has reportedly been discussed, including noisemakers, signs with anti-Trump or anti-DOGE messages, hand clappers, and red cards.
Some Democrats are considering coordinating their clothes by using colors to protest: The Democratic Women’s Caucus wants its members to wear pink; female members of the Congressional Black Caucus might wear black; Ukraine supporters could show up wearing blue and yellow.
“Some Democrats have announced that they are bringing former federal employees as their guests, as part of a protest of the Trump administration’s mass firings,” The New York Times reported.
In 2020, as she sat behind Trump, Pelosi made a grand show of ripping Trump’s speech four times. She boasted the next morning, “I felt very liberated last night.”
On Monday, President Trump declared on Truth Social, “TOMORROW NIGHT WILL BE BIG. I WILL TELL IT LIKE IT IS!”
Although Trump’s Tuesday speech will be broadcast on live television and has many aspects of a traditional State of the Union address, usually delivered in January or February, it will focus on Trump’s legislative priorities and is classified as an address to Congress.
According to NPR, for the past four decades, some presidents have referred to their first speech as an address to Congress rather than the State of the Union.
President Ronald Reagan delivered a joint address to Congress in his first term in 1981. Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton continued the tradition in 1989 and 1993, respectively, with speeches titled “Administration Goals.” President George W. Bush delivered a “Budget Message” in 2001, the Associated Press reported.
Reprinted with permission from Daily Wire by Hank Berrien.
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