Boy, howdy, did the Democrats have themselves a night last night or what?
And not in a good way.
After watching (and live blogging here at Twitchy) President Trump's 'sort of' State of the Union address to Congress last night, I was left with two predominant thoughts.
First, Trump delivered not only one of the most entertaining addresses I have heard in my lifetime, but he hit all the right inspirational and aspirational notes along the way. I want to believe that, in his words, 'The Golden Age of America is only just begun.'
Second, the Democrat Party is truly lost. In every sense of that word. Even during times when the Republican Party has been put out in the wilderness by voters in the past, such as when Barack Obama healed majorities in both houses of Congress, they were never this unhinged. In contrast, what America witnessed last night from the Democrats was nothing short of a party that may actually cease to exist, at least on a national level, in my lifetime.
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To begin, I'm not going to clutch my pearls too much about Al Green, the Texas Congressman who loudly and boisterously screamed at the President in the early part of the speech until Speaker Mike Johnson -- after repeated warnings -- had the Sergeant-at-Arms remove him from the chamber.
Rep. Al Green (D-TX) getting rightly removed from President Trump’s speech really illustrates the demise of the Democrat Party.
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) March 5, 2025
They are out of ideas. They can’t offer anything positive for America so they try to ruin it.
Al Green needs to be censured and hopefully expelled. pic.twitter.com/CV15kVsz9x
Yes, it was disgraceful. Yes, it was inappropriate. And yes, Johnson was right to have him removed.
And, by the way, for Democrats who claim this was a 'violation of free speech,' you might want to refresh your memories because Joe Biden not only removed a Gold Star father from his SOTU address but had him arrested.
Steve Nikoui, the father of a Marine killed at Abbey Gate, was arrested and charged with a crime for disrupting the SOTU in 2024. He yelled "Abbey Gate" and "United States Marines." Biden never mentioned them in three SOTUs after their deaths.
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) March 5, 2025
Yeah, you all can sit down with your fake protestations about the First Amendment.
Ultimately, though, Green's tantrum was a political stunt similar to others we've seen before. Joe Wilson shouted, 'You lie!' at Barack Obama (Obama was lying, but it was still inappropriate). Wilson was reprimanded for his behavior. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert have staged similar disruptions. And Nancy Pelosi famously, and shamefully, tore up her copy of one of Trump's SOTU speeches during his first term.
It's all wrong, but it's all just planned political theater. Most people, at least those who don't live and breathe politics, forgot about most of those incidents shortly after they occurred.
But what the Democrats did throughout the rest of Trump's speech was something I have never seen before.
When Trump highlighted Payton McNabb, the young former athlete who suffered a traumatic brain injury and partial paralysis by being forced to compete against a man, Democrats wouldn't even acknowledge her.
Zero Democrats applaud for Payton McNabb who suffered traumatic brain injury from a man playing women’s sports: pic.twitter.com/6NR5cegPA8
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) March 5, 2025
When Trump recognized the mother and sister of Laken Riley, the young nursing student brutally murdered by a violent illegal immigrant, Democrats sat on their hands and scowled.
Democrats kneeled, eulogized, and cried for a violent criminal who died during an arrest.
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 5, 2025
They refused to stand for Laken Riley. pic.twitter.com/DyBGn9Wowe
Similarly, when Trump told the mother of Jocelyn Nungaray, also murdered by illegals, to tell her that he was naming a national wildlife refuge after her daughter, Democrats remained seated and silent.
🚨 JUST IN: The mother of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, who was slain by an illegal, just SLAMMED Democrats for refusing to clap for her family as well as Laken Riley’s, calling them COWARDS
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) March 5, 2025
“This was VERY shameful for the Democrats.”
“Democrats don’t stand for ANYTHING humane.… pic.twitter.com/JdHkGeTwjR
Later, Trump told young brain cancer survivor DJ Daniel, whose lifelong dream is to be a police officer, that he was making him an honorary member of the United States Secret Service. The moment brought the entire house down and brought many people (including me) to tears.
Secret Service Director Sean Curran gives DJ Daniel, a Texas boy who has been battling cancer most of his life, a hug after Trump surprised him by making him a Secret Service agent.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) March 5, 2025
The look on his face... pic.twitter.com/rPMp5uRjsI
Rather, I should say that it brought half the house down. Incredibly, only one Democrat -- ONE -- stood up and applauded for the young man. That was New York Rep. Laura Gillen. Every other Democrat looked away and checked their phone. (Yes, I am talking about you, Elizabeth 'Pocahontas' Warren.)
There were many other instances of this disgraceful behavior, all in the name of 'resisting' Trump.
It's difficult to imagine Democrats sinking any lower than they already had with Daniel or with the families of murdered women. But they managed it.
The last damning incident that I will mention, I truly could not believe. I still can't, to be honest.
Toward the end of the speech, Trump announced that his Justice Department, led by Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, had captured the chief architect of the Abbey Gate terrorist attack in Afghanistan that resulted in the killing of 13 U.S. servicemembers.
🚨 President Trump announces that Muhammed Sharifullah — the ISIS terrorist who orchestrated the Abbey Gate attack — is on his way to the United States to face justice.
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 5, 2025
13 brave American heroes were killed in the attack. pic.twitter.com/XyHRoIeaWB
Democrats -- you guessed it -- refused to applaud this.
Maybe they were too busy looking at their watches, like Biden did when those slain soldiers and Marines were brought home.
Each one of these instances individually is a disgrace. Taken together collectively? It's difficult to conclude anything other than that the Democrat Party has devolved into a group of people who hate America. Not only that, but they hate Americans. And they hate anything beautiful, wonderful, or happy. At least if it has any connection to the Trump administration.
This is now, beyond a shadow of a doubt, an irreparably broken party.
The Democrats held up a lot of signs last night (another cringeworthy protest). One of them, held by New Mexico Rep. Melanie Stansbury, read, 'This is not normal.'
No, Ms. Stansbury. YOU are not normal.
And you do NOT deserve to be taken seriously. By anyone. Ever. (Kudos to Texas Republican Rep. Lance Gooden for tearing Stansbury's sign away from her.)
Democrats' behavior last night was so shameful that even Harold Ford of Fox News ripped into his party for disgracing themselves.
But Ford is not an elected Democrat anymore. He probably couldn't be elected in the party anymore even if he wanted to. Among actual elected Democrats, there is no one who will tell them that they are 'resisting' their way into oblivion.
As a conservative, I am happy if the left wants to show America that they do not deserve to be elected or in power ever again. But as an American, I find it sad. Even though I will never agree with them on policy, it is lamentable to see a party so consumed by their hatred of one man that they cannot even cheer a 13-year-old boy, a grieving family, or the capture of a terrorist who killed Americans in uniform.
We often say here at Twitchy that when Democrats tell us who they are, we should believe them.
And we do believe them. But last night was still way beyond the pale, even for them.
Every Democrat member of Congress had better hope for another pandemic so they can cover their faces again. They let their figurative masks slip off last night, and it was one of the ugliest sights America has ever seen.
