From Rolled Eyes To Blank Stares: Dem Responses To SOTU Were Priceless

[DonViejo]

By Summer Concepcion

February 5, 2019 11:43 pm

Democrats didn’t shy away from expressing their reactions during President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night.

From Sen. Kamala Harris shaking her head as Trump rambled on about stopping “illegal immigration” to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi giving a standing ovation when Trump praised the record number of women serving in Congress, Democrats made it clear that this was Trump’s first SOTU address in front of a divided Congress.

Watch Democrats’ range of reactions throughout the speech:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA):

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Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA):

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Standing ovation when Trump gives shoutout to record number of women in Congress:

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Reps. Deb Haaland (D-NM) and Sharice Davids (D-KS):

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY):

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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY):

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Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA):

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Dems reacting to the immigration portion of Trump’s speech:

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[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

1. Nothing says "screw you" than to be checking your email while someone is talking.

I've never seen any Speaker so obviously do something that showed she wasn't listening to Donnie. If she had wanted to read the speech discretely she could have used an Ipad or smart phone or even have her staff give her a printed copy; instead she chose a laptop, and moved it around so it naturally drew attention away from IQ45.

Perhaps she was playing the online game "Fortnite"? The students at my school are really into it.

I thought the Democrats' responses to the "stable genius" babbling were priceless. The thing that most gets under Trump's skin is being laughed at, and the various expressions were just short of outright guffaws.

[2naSalit]

2. What?

I've never seen any Speaker so obviously do something that showed she wasn't listening to Donnie. If she had wanted to read the speech discretely she could have used an Ipad or smart phone or even have her staff give her a printed copy; instead she chose a laptop, and moved it around so it naturally drew attention away from IQ45.

I watched the screech and I never saw Speaker Pelosi with anything other than a copy of the screech. She was checking to see when and where he veered offscript, which he so often does.

Speaker Pelosi was most certainly listening to the idiot and I wonder what you were watching to give you that impression.

[LiberalArkie]

4. Paul Ryan usually slept through them.

[japple]

9. With a beatific smile plastered on his face.

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[Scurrilous]

3. K&R

[davsand]

5. Shumer looked amused a large part of the time.

I was also amused to hear the orange anus bitch about confirmations the Senate hasn't dealt with. It's apparently still lost on him that his own party controls the Senate--as they have the entire time he's been in office.

Bless his heart.





Laura

[Harker]

7. I can think of one particularly egregious

refusal to confirm a judicial appointee.

[zanana1]

6. Chuck Schumer has the best smirk than anybody I've ever seen! nt

[Farmer-Rick]

10. I know, Schumer's look made me laugh out loud

And you know that most of the time, Trump doesn't recognize what those looks mean. He'll get his Russian handler to explain them later. She was dressed for a funeral after-all.

[lunatica]

11. He also probably watches reruns so he can see how well he scored

He looks for fear or defeat in their eyes because he loves to cause both. Reruns give him that extra lift he craves.

Except now on reruns he probably sees victory in their eyes and body languages and sometimes he gets it. Other times someone has to explain it.

[SunSeeker]

8. They were being nice. If anyone ever deserved a "You lie!" It was Donald. nt

[Ferrets are Cool]

12. I can't click on any of these because I refuse to let Agent Orange

stain my eardrums.