That should make for an interesting conversation over dinner. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s MAGA reporter beau, Brian Glenn, said Thursday he opposes the censuring of Rep. Al Green—who jeered President Donald Trump’s address to Congress—on the same day Greene voted in favor of a censure.
“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?
Al Green was removed from President Donald Trump's speech to Congress on Tuesday night and has now been censured by his fellow lawmakers. On Wednesday, Republicans on the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus posted on X,
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 […]
Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), argued that House Republicans should not censure Rep. Al Greene (D-TX) for his outburst at President Donald Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress. Glenn opposed censuring Greene in a Thursday interview on Real America's Voice despite his girlfriend's vote against tabling the motion on Wednesday.
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.