Two Georgia Dems plan to skip Trump's State of the Union

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Hill

Two Georgia Democrats are planning to skip President Trump's State of the Union address next week.

The offices of Reps. John Lewis and Hank Johnson confirmed to The Hill Thursday that they would not be in attendance on Feb. 5.

“I have a problem with defiling the Speaker’s chair in the House of Representatives,” Johnson told AJC. “I don’t want to see it lowered, as is what happens when Donald Trump comes to our floor and starts talking about groups of people, particularly Latinos, and disparaging them as a people.”

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Civil rights hero Lewis is continuing his standing boycott of Trump's speeches.

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Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/427974-two-georgia-dems-plan-to-skip-trumps-state-of-the-union

[democratisphere]

1. All and I mean ALL Democrats should boycott the SOTU.

[ananda]

2. Agree

Period

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. I must agree. nt

[BigmanPigman]

11. I always boycotted the rebub POTUS State Of

The Union but during the Obama Admin I stopped watching too since I almost had a heart attack from shear anger. Watching the fucking GOP asses "boo" him or sit on their hands pissed me off too much. I decided I would never watch again.

[Paladin]

14. Absolutely.

ALL the Democrats need to be holding a rally at the same time, with a big crowd of federal workers who got fucked over by trump.

[Amaryllis]

4. Rep. Blumenauer (OR) said he wasnt going.

[onetexan]

5. No Dems should go, since an audience who can't ask questions is what the idiot craves

[lark]

13. There are no questions asked during SOTU so don't think that's relevant.

I thinks dems should boycott his speech since it will be 100% lies and hate against them anyway. He will define them as all but traitors and tell people to vote Repug or "illegals" will flood the USA and take all the white women and sell them into slavery or some equally outrageous BS.

I will not watch - period the end. I will watch the Dem response but will not give orange assmouth one minute of my time. Wouldn't it be awesome (although unlikely) if more people watched the Dem response than watched him?

[onetexan]

15. you misunderstood my point - the SOTU is the exact type of audience the Idiot wants

since everyone in government has to sit still politely while he rants, raves and lies his way thru a deviously crafted speech.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. Can you blame them?

An hour of so of Trump bragging about how great he is could be torture.

[LuckyLib]

7. Those who go should flash "lie cards" -- each time he dishes out his BS, the

red cards go up. Bloviating? Yellow. Bragging about all of his "achievements"? Blue. Sentence or concept makes absolutely no sense? White.

The House Chamber would be a constantly changing color display.

[NRaleighLiberal]

8. I would love the visual of much of the room empty!

[47of74]

9. Yeah I'm not watching that horseshit.

[world wide wally]

10. A two hour lie marathon

Fuck him.

[Cha]

12. I know they'll be watching Stacy Abrams' Rebuttal!

[NurseJackie]

16. John Lewis is a true hero, a national treasure. I'll never forget (nor forgive) how ...

Civil rights hero Lewis is continuing his standing boycott of Trump's speeches.

John Lewis is a true hero, a national treasure. I'll never forget (nor forgive) how he was disrespected at our party's last convention.