Party differences are the cause of boycotting the speeches of American presidents in Congress

Before US President Donald Trump’s speech before Congress, some democratic legislators planned to disrupt the president’s speech in a joint session of the legislature.

While a number of them protested, and others carried banners condemning Trump’s policy, a vice -president of Texas challenged the president, boycotted his speech, and criticized him.

The Democratic Representative, Al -Green, was removed from the Hall of the Council, last Tuesday evening, after his repeated boycott of the president during his speech.

The Speaker of Parliament, Mike Johnson, a Republican of Louisiana, ordered the removal of Green after multiple warnings, and the solidarity of a number of Democratic representatives with their colleague and preferred to go out with him.

When leaving the joint session, Green told reporters: “There are very afraid people, and these are poor, and they only have the (Medik Aid) program when it comes to health care, and I want the president to notice that his budget calls for great discounts in the program. The safety network programs that people depend on in my electoral area. ”

However, widespread disturbances of the council did not occur, as there is less appetite for protest, compared to what was the case during the first Trump period.

Over the years, there were many events and turmoil during the president’s speeches in front of members of Congress, and every new president had at least one speech in a joint congressional session characterized by protests from the legislators of the opposition party.

In his speech in 2023, President Joe Biden was repeatedly met with shouts and booing from some Republican legislators, which prompted the then Speaker of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, to silence them, and Biden Khattab was boycotted in front of Congress in the previous year by the two republican deputies Marguri Taylor Green and Lauren Boubert, who chanted “building the wall”, according to the network. BC News, “Trump also did not escape the protests in the House of Representatives during his first term. During his speech on the state of the Federation in 2018, his comments on immigration sparked” booing and resentment “from some Democrats, according to the” NBC News “network.

Returning back, Representative Joe Wilson, President Barack Obama’s speech in 2009, boycotted a joint congressional session.

While Obama was discussing immigration reform, Wilson, a Republican of South Carolina, shouted, saying: “You are lying.”

In 2005, President George W. Bush was met with shouts from some Democrats while calling for social security reform, and a commentator at CNN, Bill Schneider, said at that time: “It was unusual, I have not heard at least at this level before, and it is clear that the Democrats were firing trends, cheering and rejection when the president spoke about the social security crisis.”

While the disturbance that occurred in 2005 was considered unusual, the protest acts of the president’s speech in Congress are further.

In 1975, during President Gerald Ford’s speech, before the legislative body, the Democrats could be heard when they were subjected to a $ 722 million military aid package to South Vietnam, while the Democratic Party was pushing for the end of the war, according to the New York Times, after which many Democrats got up and left the room. On “Miami Herald”

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Attempts to isolate the president

Earlier last month, Democratic Representative Al Green said that he would present a petition calling for the isolation of the President, Donald Trump, because of his external policies he described as “aggressive”, and Green said in a speech on February 5: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” adding: “I stand to announce that the President’s isolation movement has started … I stand to announce that I will submit a request to isolate the president, Because of the heinous acts of proposed and the heinous acts committed.

Like his recent efforts, there is no great desire among Democrats to isolate Trump yet.

When asked about Green, Representative Beit Ajear, a Democrat from California, said that the endeavor was not the focus of the party.