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Rep. Green was removed from Trump’s joint speech to Congress last year after she yelled at the President against Medicaid cuts.
This year’s demonstration concerns a video Trump shared on the Truth Social platform earlier this month, depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys. Trump maintained that he did not watch the entire video before instructing an aide to release it on his behalf.
Many Democratic members of Congress attended the speech, wearing ‘suffragist’ white clothing in solidarity with women’s rights.
Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández of New Mexico, who chairs the Democratic Women’s Caucus, told CBS News: “This year, there are specific attacks on women’s ability to vote. The Democratic Women’s Caucus is wearing white to both honor the struggle that women have always fought and to signal that we are still in the fight.”
Some members of Congress are avoiding tonight’s speech after Democratic leaders urged them not to attend rather than interrupt the speech in a conspicuous gesture.
Trump heads into his State of the Union address with a worse approval rating than any president in modern history.
A Washington Post/ABC News poll this week found that 60 percent of Americans disapprove of Trump’s performance in office, with 47 percent expressing strong disapproval.
Only 39 percent said they approved of his performance; this is the lowest rate of any President before the second year of the State of the Union in modern history.
The last time Trump’s disapproval rating reached 60% was in the final days of his first term, shortly after the January 6 Insurrection.
Only 29 percent of Americans believe the country is heading in the right direction, according to AP-NORC’s latest poll. The majority, 69 percent, think the country is heading in the wrong direction.
This pessimism is higher than when Trump took office last year. Last March, nearly 6 in 10 Americans thought the country was heading in the wrong direction.
This is partly because the mood among Republicans became quite dark last fall following the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Republicans are more optimistic now than they were a few months ago, but only 6 in 10 believe the country is heading in the right direction, compared to 7 in 10 last March.
