(KRON) — The Democratic Occasion has been taking warmth for the previous a number of days over the conduct of many Democratic Home members throughout President Donald Trump’s joint handle to Congress Tuesday. Whereas some members declined to indicate up, others wore pink in protest of Trump’s insurance policies’ results on girls. Nonetheless others brandished indicators which have since been mocked as “giving bingo.”
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Public displeasure with the Democrats’ shambolic exhibiting throughout the handle has now apparently led to at least one Bay Space consultant being chased down at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport.
UNITED STATES – JULY 11: Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., speaks with a bunch of West Level cadets within the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, July 11, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Name, Inc through Getty Pictures)
“Jim Barrett, a flight attendant, politely chased me down at Chicago Airport,” tweeted Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Fremont) on Thursday. “‘Sir, I am a Democrat but the way the party behaved was embarrassing. Made us look heartless. I don’t care who is up there, you stand for the boy with cancer. Be more rational & get your act together.”
Throughout President Trump’s speech, he launched a 13-year-old boy who had been identified with a mind tumor and had him honorarily inducted into america Secret Service. Trump additionally launched the household of Laken Riley, a university pupil who was killed by a Venezuelan migrant, and Marc Fogel, a Pennsylvania instructor who spent greater than three years in a Russian jail.
WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 04: Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) (L) joins fellow Democrats in holding up indicators to protest in opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump as he addresses a joint session of Congress on the U.S. Capitol on March 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Picture by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Pictures)
Democrats, some brandishing indicators that learn “FALSE,” “Save Medicaid,” or “Musk Steals,” largely sat impassively by all through the 90-plus minute handle.
The indicators, former Joe Biden spokesperson Symone Sanders Townsend mentioned afterward, are “not landing.”
Khanna mentioned he replied that “a few of us did stand and clap and we must be the party that still believes in kindness, decency, and trying to bring together.”
There was extra disarray on the Home ground on Thursday. A bipartisan vote to censure Rep. Al Inexperienced (D-TX) for heckling Trump erupted into yelling, singing, and warnings of extra punishments to return.