Should Speaker Pelosi permit Trump to give SOTU speech with the government closed?

[kentuck]

Actually, I think he wants the SOTU speech more than he wants the wall...

If he is permitted to speak, it will probably be an embarrassment as he will throw red meat to his supporters and call everyone else names. It would probably be best for him if he did not speak?

He is playing mind games with her at the present time, daring her to officially block him from speaking. She has not yet made it official, the last I had heard.

Perhaps she should say, "No, there is a price to pay for your unacceptable behavior and shutting down our government. The answer is "No". Go sit in the corner."

[leftieNanner]

1. I agree with you

that he may want the SOTU speech more than he wants the wall.

Whatever constitutes attention to him is what he wants. All day, every day.

Damn, but he's exhausting.

Can Madam Speaker give Trumpy a Time Out?

[guillaumeb]

2. No. Trump has no integrity, and nothing of substance to say.

Let him watch FOX instead.

[maxrandb]

3. She should tell him to give it

at the site of his "ongoing, already in progress" wall construction.

[bluescribbler]

4. Fuck no!

The Orange Shitgibbbon should not be allowed into the House to spew his brand of bullshit.

[dweller]

5. nyet.. n/t

✌🏼️

[berni_mccoy]

6. She left herself an out. She REQUESTED that he postpone it.

She can of course allow him to have it.

I'm sure she will do the right thing.

[RockRaven]

7. She cannot prevent him from giving a SOTU speech, she can only prevent him doing so in the House...

and damn right she should!!! Until he signs the requisite bills to fully funs all government departments, agencies, etc. he gets no joint session of Congress for any reason, and he is not welcome in the House Chamber, full stop.

[thecrow]

10. She should stock the audience

Completely fill the chamber with the people hurt most by the shutdown - federal the federal hostages

[Tommy_Carcetti]

8. Nope.

[onecaliberal]

9. She should not allow it on the House floor. She controls the house. She can and has said

Not going to happen while the government is closed.

[lilactime]

11. No!

[bitterross]

12. I think most of the nation will thank her for sparing them

The SOTU is a real bore anyway. Trump's lies and exaggerations won't make it any better.

Unless everyone is playing Trump bingo or taking shots every time he lies.

[haele]

15. Doctors all over the country will advise against a "shot game" based on his lying.

We'd lose a good 2% or so of the population that way to alcohol poisoning.
It'll be like a pandemic, overwhelming the ERs nation-wide.

Haele

[bitterross]

17. +10000

[haele]

13. No. And if he tries to bully his way in, the lights stay off with no cameras present.

Also, no congresscritters - as there doesn't need to be a special session. An ego-boo rally is not a SOTU address.

Pelosi said no as long as the government is shut down, and I doubt his groupies in the House have enough votes to force her hand in the matter. Everyone and their staffers can just go home or back to the offices at 1730 or so for dinner, or go get some real work done after hours.

If he wants to televise a "State of The Delusion" address from the Oval Office, he can do that with no additional impact to the over-stressed unpaid government employees during this shutdown.
But because he feeds off his pacifier crowds cheering at his televised dictatorial gibberish like some vampiric mafia boss, that's not something he would even consider.

Haele

[mulsh]

14. NO. Grammar school civics class stressed the fact the president can not enter the house with out an

invitation. Has something changed over the 50 or so years since then or the high school and even college American government classes I took. If the president shows up uninvited I hope the Speaker has the Capitol Police arrest him.

From the below article: "It was unclear how Trump would address lawmakers Jan. 29, as the House and Senate must pass a concurrent resolution for a joint session of Congress to hear the president."

[link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-hell-deliver-state-of-the-union-at-the-capitol-despite-pelosis-request-to-postpone/2019/01/23/d171dfae-1f33-11e9-8e21-59a09ff1e2a1_story|

[shanny]

16. no

lock the doors and flip the breaker

[Bad Thoughts]

18. He can deliver a letter

That has not changed, IIANM.