EVERY DEMOCRAT SHOULD HAVE LEFT WITH AL GREEN!!!!

[Coventina]

He gets kicked out and the other Dems stick around!?!?!?!?!?

[montanacowboy]

1. I agree

none of them should have gone. None.

[SheltieLover]

2. Al Green got kicked out?

[LuckyCharms]

3. .

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221046900

[IcyPeas]

4. Within the first few minutes.

Incredible shot of Rep. Al Green holding up a "BLACK PEOPLE AREN'T APES!" sign with Trump in the foreground from photographer Kenny Holston (Getty)

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-02-25T02:42:43.594Z

[SheltieLover]

7. They kicked him out for the sign? 🤬

Good trouble...

Thx for sharing. At least he was spared the bs.

[IcyPeas]

5. Leaving would be okay... but it doesn't make headlines

The gop know how to get headlines.

[Maraya1969]

13. I really wish someone would have yelled out, "Child rapist"

Or at least, “Pedohile protector”

People need to start bringing this up now. Too many don’t know what he really did (I’m specifically thinking of the report of him forcing a child to go down in him and then hitting her “. If the msm won’t report on it maybe we should

[dalton99a]

6. Yep.

[leftstreet]

8. DURec

[Arazi]

9. They never should have gone at all

Every Dem should have boycotted it.

Traitor addressing a half empty room would have freaked him out

[calimary]

12. I'd guess the GOP would have solved that problem

with hurried phone calls to friends in back and in the balcony to hustle down to the main seating area and FILL UP THOSE SEATS!!!

[KPN]

10. Kicked!

[yaesu]

11. Zero Dems should be there giving the Russian pig fucker relevance, I'm so disappointed, another wasted opportunity

but not surprised though.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. Hakeem Jeffries defends Rep. Al Green's 'on point' message to Trump at SOTU

Al Green was very effective last night.

Link to tweet

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-means-surgeon-general-congress-state-of-the-union-live-updates-rcna260120#rcrd101892

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., had warned his Democratic members not to engage in any distracting protests during Trump’s State of the Union address.

But today he defended Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, who was escorted out of Trump’s address last night after he held up a sign to the president reading: “Black People Are Not Apes!”

“I thought the Democratic response was appropriately restrained and forceful at the same period of time, and that was obvious to anybody who was watching,” Jeffries said as he kicked off House Democrats’ annual issues conference.

“With respect to Rep. Green’s response, it was both appropriate and restrained at the same period of time,” Jeffries continued. “Now, his message that he communicated was obviously on point, but it was far less profane than my reaction to the very same racist video that Donald Trump felt compelled to produce.”

Trump sparked a firestorm this month when he posted a video on social media depicting former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes. After GOP backlash, Trump deleted the video, but he has refused to apologize.