{"id":489271,"date":"2026-02-25T08:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/489271\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T08:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:48:16","slug":"trump-sotu-sees-texas-congressman-escorted-out-again-after-obama-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/489271\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump SOTU Sees Texas Congressman Escorted Out Again After Obama Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t(Updated with Rep. Green statement) Once again, Rep. Al Green<\/a> (D-TX) has voiced his displeasure with Donald Trump<\/a> as POTUS addressed Congress, and once again the Texas Democrat has been made to leave the chamber. <\/p>\n

\n\tTonight, Green held up a sign that read \u201cBlack People Aren\u2019t Apes!\u201d as Trump entered the floor of the House of Representatives to deliver the first State of the Union<\/a> of his second term. When Trump and his entourage of GOP leaders walked down the aisle, Majority Leader Steven Scalise tried unsuccessfully to tear the sign down.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a chamber with a number of Democrats boycotting Trump, the two-decade long serving Congressman continued to hold the sign up protesting the vile video POTUS posted late on February 5 \u00a0depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tRep. Al Green (D-TX) protests as Donald Trump arrives to deliver the 2026 State of the Union address. (Photo:Getty)<\/p>\n

\n\tRepublicans moved fast tonight to try to mask Green\u2019s message from public eyes, especially those watching on TV or online. <\/p>\n

\n\tReps. Pat Fallon (R-TX) and John McGuire (R-VA) and Sens. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) and Roger Marshall (R-KS) all moved to block Green\u2019s sign from being seen.<\/p>\n

\n\tWithin minutes of Trump taking the podium, Rep. Green held up his apparently hand written sign again for all, including Trump, to clearly see.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a repeat of Trump\u2019s record breaking long speech before Representatives, Senators, cabinet members, SCOTUS and invited guests last year, Rep. Green was then escorted out of the room. At one point, it looked like things between Green and fellow Texan Rep. Troy Nehis (R-TX) were going to get physical, but the latter Congressman was pulled away from 78-year-old Democrat. <\/p>\n

\n\tJust like 2025, Republicans filled the air with chants of \u201cUSA, USA, USA!\u201d as the African-American Congressman was ejected.<\/p>\n

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\n\tWhile the C-Span cameras captured Rep. Green\u2019s protest and sign, and GOP reactions, they were quick to cut away to wide shoots once security began leading the longtime Lone Star state Congressman to the door. On CNN, MS Now and others, there was no mention of what was occurring in real time as Trump started talking and talking in what he had already promised would be a \u201clong speech.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tOutside the chamber, Rep. Green said to other C-Span cameras that he \u201cwould do it again. The 11-term Congressman, who is facing a stiff primary this year going into the midterms, emphasized that he refused \u201cto tolerate this level of hate that the President is in fact, putting into policy.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe must take a stand against this level of invidious discrimination,\u201d Congressman Green explained, stating there were others in both houses of Congress who agreed with him but won\u2019t say it to Trump hmself. \u201cI wanted him to know, and I wanted him to see it and hear it up close,\u201d Green explained of why he held up the sign in front of Trump.\u201d But judging from the expression on his face, he got the message. He saw it, he got the message, and I hope that others will let him have a similar message, so that he would discontinue this behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBlaming a still unidentified and seemingly still employed aide<\/a> for actually re-posting the racist video on Trump\u2019s Truth Social account just hours after vigorously defending it, the White House took the clip down later on February 6.<\/a> <\/p>\n

\n\tStill, that same day, Trump insisted he did nothing wrong and would not apologize<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tFirst posted in late 2025 by a \u201c@XERIAS_X\u201d\u00a0account, the 55-second video depicts Trump as a lion, while Hillary Clinton and NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani are depicted as a warthog and hyena respectively. Playing to some of the worst racism from a POTUS who has never been hesitant to be openly racist, the two-second scene appears at the end of the video with the Obamas as apes, dancing in the jungle to \u201cThe Lion Sleeps Tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOver a week later,<\/a> citing the \u201cclown show\u201d of social media (and by implication the Trump administration) a still-circumspect President Obama said, \u201cI think it\u2019s important to recognize that a majority of the American people find this behavior deeply troubling.\u201d Waving his optimistic flag, Obama added to Brian Tyler Cohen in a recent\u00a0interview<\/a>: \u201cIt is true that it gets attention. It\u2019s true that it\u2019s a distraction. But as I\u2019m traveling around the country, as you\u2019re traveling around the country, you meet people, they still believe in decency, courtesy, kindness.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPlaying to the crowd watching on TV and online tonight, Trump had the Gold medal winning Men\u2019s US Hockey team up in the gallery as well as a nearly 100 year-old veteran and Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk, as he recited his usual personal attacks on Joe Biden and offered partisan praise of himself.<\/p>\n

\n\tEventually censured by the House<\/a> and thrown under the bus by a number of his fellow Dems, Rep Green last year shook his eagle tipped cane at Trump as he declared that the MAGA boss did not have a mandate to cut Medicaid.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnother censure may be in Rep. Green\u2019s near future now too, or not. Perhaps he will vote \u201cpresent\u201d this time round, like he did last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Updated with Rep. Green statement) Once again, Rep. Al Green (D-TX) has voiced his displeasure with Donald Trump…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[223486,23,8833,12,25248,3,224583,183914,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-489271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-al-green","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-barack-obama","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-michelle-obama","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-sotu","15":"tag-state-of-the-union","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}