Texas Rep Al Green disrupted a House vote to censure him over his repeated heckling of President Donald Trump during the Congress address on Tuesday. Soon a Green vs Greene debate came up. Democrats protested staunch Trump ally Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene wearing a MAGA cap during House sessions,
“They just kicked African American Congressman Al Green out of Trump’s Speech,” wrote Democratic pundit Brian Krassenstein on X. “Weird that Marjorie Taylor Greene was never removed when she went off at Biden’s SOTU a few years ago.”
Would they heckle the president, as Reps. Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene had Joe Biden during his State of the Union address? Or would they take some other route to express their disagreement with Trump's whirlwind actions during his first few weeks in office?
Many Democrats are expressing frustration after outward protests of Donald Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress were left largely to a 77-year-old congressman […]
Al Green's removal has led social media users to call it a "double standard" after past Republican hecklers of Democratic presidents were allowed to stay.
Al Green’s removal from Donald Trump’s Congress address after his interruption highlights a double standard between Democrats and Republicans, considering the many past interruptions from Marjorie Taylor Greene that failed to result in removal.