House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) sent a two-word message to Reps. Majorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) after they heckled President Joe Biden during his State of the Union address.
When asked for her reaction to the outbursts during her press conference Thursday, Pelosi responded, “Let me just say this. I agree with what Senator Lindsey Graham said: ‘Shut up.’ That’s what he said to them. I think they should just shut up.”
Watch part of her press conference below:
Speaker Pelosi relayed a simple message to GOP Reps. Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene, who had numerous outbursts during Pres. Biden’s State of the Union address: ‘Shut up’ pic.twitter.com/OUhs6N9jGk
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Boebert and Greene repeatedly interrupted during Biden’s speech. During an appearance on Fox News Wednesday night, Boebert addressed her critics.
“I want to remind everyone who may be concerned about me speaking up at the State of the Union that Joe Biden was 100% responsible for the deaths of the 13 brave service members we lost in Afghanistan. And last night, he took zero responsibility for it,” Boebert said.
She told the network it is “never wrong to stand up and speak out for moms and dads who lost their children.”
Boebert continued, “When Joe Biden started talking about flag-draped coffins, I got fired up. My mind went straight to the 13 soldiers that died in Afghanistan. The mother of one of those heroes lives in my district. She told me Joe Biden killed her son. So you’re darn right I spoke up. And if I could redo last night, I would absolutely do it again.”
Greene tore into Biden following his address, calling him a “dementia-ridden piece of crap,” as IJR reported.
“For four years, our country had a real leader that led America and the entire world to peace through strength,” Greene said.
She added, “But now, we have a mentally incompetent, feckless, dementia-ridden piece of crap, to quote Kathy McCollum, who is still grieving the loss of her heroic son, Rylee McCollum, one of the 13 killed in our chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.”
