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President Donald Trump‘s speech to Congress started off with some protesting. On Tuesday (March 4), Trump, 78, gave his first speech inside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC since his inauguration in January. Shortly after Trump started his speech, Rep. Al Green was removed from the chamber after he refused to sit down and shouted things at the president from his spot. The 77-year-old congressman, who is an 11-term Democrat from Texas, shook his cane at Trump while yelling that he should be impeached. “You have no mandate!” Green shouted at Trump, after he said that the 2024 presidential election against former Vice President Kamala Harris was “a mandate like has not been seen in many decades.” House Speaker Mike Johnson, who was seated behind Trump, requested that Green take his seat multiple times before ordering for the lawmaker to be removed. “Finding that members continue to engage in willful and concerted disruption of proper decorum, the Chair now directs the Sergeant at Arms to restore order and remove this gentleman from the chamber,” Johnson, 53, read from the rulebook. Green was then escorted out by security and House Sergeant at Arms Ronny Jackson as Republicans in the chamber shouted, “Nah nah nah nah, goodbye,” according to NBC News. After being removed, Green told reporters that as “a person of conscience,” he believes Trump “has done things that I think we cannot allow to continue.” “This whole budget that he has is one that is going to cause Medicaid to be cut, and when he said he had a mandate, it triggered something,” Green continued. “Because he doesn’t have a mandate, and he doesn’t have a mandate to cut health care from poor people.” Green has been a very vocal opponent of Trump for years. During Trump‘s first term, Green filed impeachment articles for “high misdemeanors” against the president. Shortly after Trump was sworn in again earlier this year, Green said that he will continue to call for his impeachment. An Oscar-winning actress recently reacted to her children’s book being removed from schools due to one of Trump‘s new executive orders.
