We saw some truly despicable behavior from the Democrats during Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress in early March. Not only did they refuse to stand up for or applaud a 13-year-old cancer survivor—can you go any lower?—but they heckled, held up juvenile signs, and just generally made donkeys out of themselves.
Arguably the worst offender was Texas Rep. Al Green, who interrupted the speech by continuously yelling and waving his cane around impotently. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) gave him several opportunities to sit back down and zip it, but he refused and was eventually tossed from the chamber. He was censured two days later as Democrats protested by singing “We shall overcome” (although 10 Dems did vote with the GOP for the measure).
Impressive stuff.
Now Green is speaking out, and instead of taking responsibility for his own boorish behavior, he’s blaming the censure on, you guessed it, “invidious discrimination.” Watch:
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CNN host Fredricka Whitfield started things out with an utter softball of a question that seemed written by his staff:
WHITFIELD: …you saw a congressman, Joe Wilson, who, you know, yelled, “you lie,” you had Justice Alito with his expression saying “not true,” and Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene there with that confrontation with Biden. None of them were censured nor escorted out. Is this a reflection of the climate that we are in right now?
The obvious thing to note here is that Justice Alito simply mouthed “not true,” he did not continuously attempt to disrupt Obama’s speech in 2010 and wasn’t warned several times to stop his behavior. The other situations were similar. Al Green, on the other hand, refused to follow the decorum of the House, even when explicitly told to several times by the speaker.
Green attempted to deflect that by describing the environment he grew up in decades ago:
AL GREEN: Thank you for the question. The climate of which you speak is one that I have lived in for most of my life. I’m a son of the segregated South. The rights that were enshrined in the Constitution for me, my friends and neighbors denied me. I had to go to the back door, drink from my colored water fountain, sit in the back of the bus, and I had relatives who were locked up in the bottom of the jail.
I have acclimated to this kind of behavior, but quite candidly it is a double standard, and it is a form of invidious discrimination. But I was prepared to suffer whatever the consequences are when I decided that I would engage in this peaceful protest. I never used any sort of profanity. I never made any threats. I merely said you do not have a mandate, and this is true.
He is eloquent on what he experienced in the past, and what he describes is worthy of condemnation—but it has nothing to do with him interrupting the speech of the president of the United States. It is not “discrimination” to say you must obey the lawful commands of the speaker of the house when you are sitting in the hallowed halls of Congress.
Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome pic.twitter.com/sVklRmPCJl
— Congressman Al Green (@RepAlGreen) March 6, 2025
Whitfield asked Green if he thought his antics were a “distraction,” which he of course denied:
AL GREEN: I believe what I did puts a focus on Medicaid. I believe that this may be the means by which we can prevent Medicaid from being cut because I think it will be difficult now for them to move forward to cut it, given that we have brought this to the attention of the public.
I don’t see it as a distraction. I see it as a positive action to protect Medicaid.
President Trump has not explicitly indicated that he wants to cut Medicaid; in fact, he has often gone on record saying he wants to protect it. Regardless, a speech to Congress and to the nation is not only about one issue, and Mr. Green, you don’t get to hijack the proceedings just because you feel strongly about your single concern.
Green’s ejection and censure weren’t about “invidious discrimination,” they were about ensuring that our Congress doesn’t become a clown show. Keep up these antics, Democrats, because they will help ensure Republican majorities for years to come.
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