Radio host Charlamagne Tha God expressed disappointment with Democrats on his talk show Wednesday, staying that he felt members should have been “more disruptive.”
The beginning of Trump’s address was interrupted by Democratic Texas Rep. Al Green, resulting in him getting removed from the chamber after disrupting. Green stood in the chamber and told Trump that he “had no mandate” before being escorted out.
Charlamagne, speaking on “The Breakfast Club,” praised Green for his actions despite a CNN poll conducted by SSRS finding that 80% of the largely Republican audience that watched the speech believed the congressman’s disruption was “inappropriate.”
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“[The] only thing I kept thinking last night was, I really don’t know what Democrats do. Like, I mean, they clearly lost a long time ago, back in November,” Charlamagne said. “But just as a party, it’s like Republicans and Democrats aren’t even playing the same game. They not in the same league. Like, they aren’t speaking the same language. And I don’t know what Democrats can do to cut through.”
“My other thought was a lot of them honestly shouldn’t have shown up if they weren’t going to be more disruptive,” he continued. “Like, salute to Congressman Al Green — OG got some nuts, you know what I’m saying? Meanwhile, the rest of them out there holding up signs like they at a silent auction.”
Charlamagne then, in the “Front Page News” segment of his show, said that he thinks additional Democrats should have joined Green in disrupting the speech.
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“I don’t mind that kind of disruption. I actually wish that the Democrats would have been more disruptive. I didn’t know you could kick people out for that though … I believe Democrats really dropped the ball there to make more of a statement,” he said. “Because Al Green is a old man — he got a cane … I feel like when he stood up and he was disruptive and he made that noise, more Democrats should have stood up with him. ‘Cause they can’t kick everybody out, right?”
Politico Capitol bureau chief and senior Washington columnist Rachael Bade also criticized the Democrats’ behavior in a Wednesday column.
“Congratulations, attention-hungry House Democrats: You stole the spotlight from Donald Trump on Tuesday night,” she wrote. “Your reward? Undercutting your own message in the fight against Trump, making your party look small and desperate, and making Trump look like the commanding figure he desperately wants to be.”
Political analyst Mark Halperin also criticized Democrats on Tuesday for refusing to rise when the president honored a 13-year-old boy with cancer during his address by making him an honorary Secret Service agent.
“To not stand for that little boy is aberrant and disgusting behavior,” Halperin said.
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