Congressional Democrats — who were in attendance at President Donald Trump’s Joint Session of Congress on Tuesday — refused to applaud or stand up numerous times while Trump highlighted accomplishments in his second term that benefit Americans.
During Trump’s address, members of the Democratic party showed their TDS [Trump Derangement Syndrome] was strong, as they refused to stand up for things like a child brain cancer survivor, a rescued hostage, grieving families, the capture of the terrorist behind the Abbey Gate attack in Afghanistan, and so many more.
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“There is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy or to make them stand or smile or applaud, nothing,” Trump said of the Democrats, predicting their behavior early on during his speech. “It’s very sad, and it just shouldn’t be this way.”
During a press briefing on Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called the behavior of Democrats at the address “completely disgraceful” and said that “it demonstrated how severely out of touch they are with the American public.”
“Democrats didn’t stand to keep men out of women’s sports,” Leavitt said. “They couldn’t even clap for a girl [Payton McNabb] who got her head smashed in by a man on a volleyball court. Democrats didn’t stand for an innocent and beautiful child who is surviving brain cancer … they couldn’t even clap for a mother whose daughter was killed by illegal aliens.”
“One of the only things that could get Democrats off their feet last night was cheering for Ukraine,” she added. “Not for America.”
According to the White House, here’s a list of all the things Democrats refused to applaud/stand up for:
- The capturing of an ISIS terrorist that masterminded the Abbey Gate attack
- A young boy fighting brain cancer
- A call to lower taxes for middle-class Americans
- Americans joining the military in record numbers
- Law and order
- Taking down illegal revenge porn
- Protecting women’s sports
- Trump entering the chamber
- Working together to Make America Great Again
- Ending the harmful electric vehicle mandate
- Cutting regulations to unleash American prosperity
- Ending censorship and bringing back free speech
- Ending discriminatory “diversity, equity, and inclusion”
- Recognizing only two sexes
- Defeating inflation
- Unleashing American energy
- Ending waste, fraud, and abuse in government
- Ending taxes on tips, overtime, and seniors’ Social Security benefits
- Bringing manufacturing home to America
- Securing historic investments in American chip manufacturing
- Removing illegal alien killers, rapists, and drug dealers from our streets
- Securing our border
- Designating the brutal Tren de Aragua gang as a foreign terrorist organization
- Waging war on the deadly cartels trafficking deadly drugs into our country
- Punishing cop killers with the death penalty
- Promoting health and wellness among Americans
- Protecting our kids from radical gender ideology
- Ending the sexual mutilation of America’s youth
- The return of American Marc Fogel
- Declaring America’s youth are perfect as God made them
- Ending wokeness in the U.S. military
- Restoring American shipbuilding
- A student getting accepted to West Point
- Improving America’s defenses
- Pursuing peace in Ukraine
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