Stephen Colbert is knocking House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’s (D-N.Y) quiet approach to countering President Trump during his State of the Union address.

In a live episode of CBS’s “The Late Show” that aired following Trump’s Tuesday speech to Congress, Colbert said that Jeffries “urged his members in the chamber to not make a scene.”

It was an approach, Colbert continued, quoting news stories, that the lawmaker “dubbed ‘silent defiance.’”

“Which I believe is a bold rebrand of doing jack squat,” Colbert cracked.

“As Martin Luther King once said: ‘Shhh,’” the late-night TV host said to laughs.

Ahead of the State of the Union, Jeffries said he had advised his caucus, “The two options that are in front of us in our House [are] to either attend with silent defiance or to not attend and send a message to Donald Trump in that fashion, which will include participation in a variety of different alternate programming that is going to take place in and around the Capitol complex.”

But multiple Democrats made their presence known during Trump’s Tuesday night address. Rep. Al Green (Texas) was escorted out after holding up a sign as Trump entered that read, “BLACK PEOPLE AREN’T APES,” a reference to since-deleted clip the president had posted depicting the Obamas as apes, and Rep. Ilhan Omar (Minn.) repeatedly heckled Trump as he made derogatory remarks about Somali immigrants in her state.

At Trump’s congressional address last year — the first of his second term — several Democrats also made headlines with their disruptive protests.

“I think this president’s unhinged tirades, I think this president’s unpopular policies should be the story, not sort of gestures from our side,” Rep. Sarah McBride told NOTUS in a recent interview.

“I don’t think that what we saw in Congress last year was particularly helpful,” the Delaware Democrat said.

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