Five years after former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) tore up President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech after he had finished, Democrats are reportedly planning to disrupt Trump’s 2025 address to a joint session of Congress with the same kind of partisan malice.
“Some members have told colleagues they may walk out of the chamber when Trump says specific lines they find objectionable, lawmakers told Axios,” the media outlet reported.
Using props has reportedly been discussed, including noisemakers, signs with anti-Trump or anti-DOGE messages, hand clappers, and red cards.
Some Democrats are considering coordinating their clothes by using colors to protest: The Democratic Women’s Caucus wants its members to wear pink; female members of the Congressional Black Caucus might wear black; Ukraine supporters could show up wearing blue and yellow.
“Some Democrats have announced that they are bringing former federal employees as their guests, as part of a protest of the Trump administration’s mass firings,” The New York Times reported.
In 2020, as she sat behind Trump, Pelosi made a grand show of ripping Trump’s speech four times. She boasted the next morning, “I felt very liberated last night.”
On Monday, President Trump declared on Truth Social, “TOMORROW NIGHT WILL BE BIG. I WILL TELL IT LIKE IT IS!”