15/01/2018 Donald Trump’s State Of The Union Address To Be Boycotted By At Least Four Democrats: Maxine Waters, Others

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January 15, 2018

Donald Trump’s State Of The Union

Address To Be Boycotted By At Least
Four Democrats: Maxine Waters, Others

Waters calls Trump a "racist" who "doesn't deserve her attention."

WHITE HOUSE EVAN VUCCI / AP IMAGES

Donald Trump is scheduled to deliver his first State of the

Union address on January 30, but at least four Democrats
have publicly announced that they’ll be boycotting the
speech, Fox News is reporting.
Aaron
Homer
House Democrats Maxine Waters (California) and John
Lewis (Georgia) will be joined by Frederica Wilson
(Florida) and Earl Blumenauer (Oregon) in skipping the
speech. Waters, Blumenauer, and Lewis also boycotted
Trump’s inauguration back in January, 2017.

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skipping the address.

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Lewis, for his part, was slightly more circumspect in his Exam Since Becoming

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choice of words, made available via The Hill.

“I cannot in all good conscience be in a

room with what he has said about so
many Americans. I just cannot do it. I
wouldn’t be honest with myself.”

Blumenauer promised a repeat of his inauguration

“
activities.

“I will be working here at home

listening to Oregonians about what
they think about the State of the
Union.”

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This would not be the first time that a president’s State of

the Union address was the scene of protests. As
Huffington Post reported at the time, Barack Obama’s
2014 State of the Union speech was the scene of a protest
by Texas Republican Steve Stockman. Stockman, a
longtime critic of Obama, walked out of the Capitol
Building during the speech. Previously, Stockman had
invited, as his guests, Obama critic Ted Nugent and, the
year before, media prankster Chad Henderson.

The Constitution requires that the president address

Congress on the State of the Union “from time to time.”
The address is now held annually by tradition.

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