Al Green Shows Trump ‘Black People Aren’t Apes’ Sign at SOTU
Representative Al Green of Texas broke his own record on Tuesday night, disrupting President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address before it even got started. For the second year in a row, Green was kicked out of the chamber for protesting Trump.
As the president made his way into the chamber on Tuesday, Green showed him a sign that read “BLACK PEOPLE AREN’T APES!” The message was a reference to a video Trump reposted to his Truth Social account earlier this month that briefly showed Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt initially defended the wildly racist video, but after 12 hours it was deleted and the administration said a “White House staffer erroneously made the post,” not the president.
Trump turned away and seemed to grimace when he saw Green’s........
