“I wanted the president to see it, and he saw it, and I told him, Black people are not apes, and for him to do what he did was racist, and he knows it. But sometimes we have to let him know in the public that we know it,” the 78-year-old Texas Democrat told CNN shortly after he was escorted out.
Green, a senior member of the party, is staunchly anti-Trump and is known for his repeated attempts to impeach the president, as well as his previous disruption of one of Trump’s speeches at the US Capitol.
Democrats had been expecting some kind of public protest from Green, given he is one week out from a difficult primary battle, where he faces a member-on-member race.
House Democratic leaders had made their most unambiguous demands and pleas to their rank-and-file of any major address from the president to date: Keep quiet in the House chamber or skip Trump’s speech altogether, according to Democratic members familiar with the conversations.
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Can remember when *snowflakes* had to do with the weather.
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Kudo’s to Rep Green for standing up against the corrupt thug running this country into the ground.
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[Rep. Al Green was escorted out](https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/24/politics/al-green-escorted-out-trump-state-of-the-union-protest?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit) of the House chamber just minutes into President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night for holding a sign reading “Black people aren’t apes!”
“I wanted the president to see it, and he saw it, and I told him, Black people are not apes, and for him to do what he did was racist, and he knows it. But sometimes we have to let him know in the public that we know it,” the 78-year-old Texas Democrat told CNN shortly after he was escorted out.
Green, a senior member of the party, is staunchly anti-Trump and is known for his repeated attempts to impeach the president, as well as his previous disruption of one of Trump’s speeches at the US Capitol.
Democrats had been expecting some kind of public protest from Green, given he is one week out from a difficult primary battle, where he faces a member-on-member race.
House Democratic leaders had made their most unambiguous demands and pleas to their rank-and-file of any major address from the president to date: Keep quiet in the House chamber or skip Trump’s speech altogether, according to Democratic members familiar with the conversations.
Can remember when *snowflakes* had to do with the weather.
Kudo’s to Rep Green for standing up against the corrupt thug running this country into the ground.
Congratulations!
CNN sucks