Donald Trump‘s highly anticipated State of the Union address is facing a sinister sabotage plot from top Democrats.
Dozens of lawmakers are set to boycott the speech at the Capitol with counter events, including parading Jeffrey Epstein victims on the National Mall.
Others are threatening to stage walk-outs during Trump’s speech as he prepares to reset his agenda at 9pm Tuesday and stare down the barrel of disastrous poll numbers ahead of the midterms in November.
Two counter-programming events are planned in Washington, DC. The ‘State of the Swamp’ will take place at 7pm at the National Press Club, with lawmakers and media stars scheduled to speak, and activists encouraged to wear swampy frog costumes.
Progressive attendees include the fiery mayors of Minneapolis and Chicago, Jacob Frey and Brandon Johnson, who have frequently clashed with Trump over his deadly immigration crackdown.
A second event, the ‘People’s State of the Union,’ will start at 8pm on the National Mall, including Trump nemesis Adam ‘Shifty’ Schiff of California.
Democratic Representative Ro Khanna, who has spearheaded the pressure campaign to release the Epstein files, will bring one of the pedophile’s victims, Haley Robson, as his guest.
Dozens of lawmakers are set to stage walk-outs during Donald Trump’s speech as he prepares to reset his agenda at 9pm Tuesday
Several House Democrats have invited survivors of Jeffrey Epstein to the State of the Union address tonight, including Representative Ro Khanna, who is bringing Haley Robson
Democratic Congressman Al Green of Texas interrupts President Trump’s address to a joint session of the United States Congress at the US Capitol on March 4 last year
Khanna said: ‘Haley’s courageous fight is proof that this isn’t about politics, it’s about exposing America’s two-tiered system of justice and bringing accountability to the Epstein class involved in the horrific abuse of young girls.
‘She and her fellow survivors’ bravery was the catalyst for changing a rotten system and finally standing up for humanity and American values.’
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer will host an Epstein survivor and fellow New Yorker, Dani Bensky, as his guest.
‘Dani has turned unimaginable pain into unrelenting advocacy. Survivors deserve justice. Trump must end the cover-up and release the full Epstein files – NOW,’ Schumer wrote in an X post.
While no official walkout of Trump’s speech is planned from the chamber, Representative Jared Huffman, a California Democrat, told Axios, ‘The only question for me is which of his disgusting lines prompts me to get up and leave, because at some point I will.’
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries presented his caucus with two options for Tuesday night. Attend Trump’s speech ‘silently’ or participate in alternative programming.
‘The two options that are in front of us, in our house, is 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,’ Jeffries said during a press conference last Wednesday.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that she would be attending Trump’s speech because it was ‘important to do.’
‘I will be there as he tries to put a spin on this economy, a happy face on an economy where he promised for an entire year when he was running for president, he would lower costs on day one, and here we sit on day 400, the cost of groceries is up, the cost of utilities is up, the cost to build a home is up, and the cost of healthcare is through the roof,’ Warren argued to Collins.
Democrats are also planning at least three rebuttals to Trump’s Tuesday address.
Two counter-programming events are planned in Washington, DC, during Trump’s address
Dani Bensky, a survivor of Epstein, will be the guest of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
Senator Alex Padilla was pushed out of the room as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem held a news conference in Los Angeles last June. He will give the Spanish-language response to Trump’s State of the Union
Virginia’s Democratic Governor Abigail Spanberger will give the official State of the Union response for her party
Virginia‘s Democratic governor, Abigail Spanberger, will deliver the official rebuttal address, and Congresswoman Summer Lee will give the progressives’ response.
The Democrats’ Spanish-language response to Trump’s speech will be delivered by California Senator Alex Padilla, who was removed from a press conference by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem in Los Angeles last summer.
The spectacle occurred after he reportedly did not identify himself as a member of Congress during the event and lunged towards the front of the room where Noem was speaking.
Padilla was forcefully removed and handcuffed by officers as he tried to question Noem about immigration raids.
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