Congressman Al Green—a Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives—was removed from the Capitol chamber by the sergeant at arms after interrupting President Donald Trump’s speech.

President Donald Trump‘s latest address in the U.S. Capitol has experienced a slight hiccup.

Rep. Al Green—an 11-term Democrat from Texas—was ejected from the chamber floor for verbally interrupting the 78-year-old’s speech during a joint session of Congress.

“You have no mandate,” Green shouted at Trump, after the POTUS said his 2024 presidential election against Vice President Kamala Harris was “a mandate like has not been seen in many decades.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) then requested that Green take his seat, before ordering for the 77-year-old’s removal when he failed to comply with the direction.

“Finding that members continue to engage in willful and concerted disruption of proper decorum,” Johnson read from the rulebook, “the Chair now directs the Sergeant at Arms to restore order and remove this gentleman from the chamber.”

Green was escorted out by security and House Sergeant at Arms Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) as Republicans chanted, “Nah nah nah nah, goodbye,” according to NBC News.

Once outside the chamber, 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,” he said, per the outlet. “Because he doesn’t have a mandate, and he doesn’t have a mandate to cut health care from poor people.”

And Green—no relation to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.)—has been a longtime detractor of Trump prior to his outburst. During Trump’s first presidency, Green filed impeachment articles against the Apprentice alum for “high misdemeanors.”

In January, shortly after Trump was sworn in for his second term, Green said he will continue to call for the Commander in Chief’s impeachment. 

“Failure to impeach a constitutionally unfit president puts society at greater risk of additional harm,” he shared in a press conference. “The seeds of discord continue to germinate, and society continues to suffer as the healing power of impeachment is delayed and denied.”

Trump was impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress in 2019, and again for incitement of insurrection in 2021. The Senate voted to acquit him in both instances.

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Source: www.eonline.com