Fetterman says Dem responses only helped Trump
(The Center Square) – U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., critiqued his own party Wednesday for its response to President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress Tuesday evening.
Trump’s lengthy speech was peppered with interruptions from Democrats, who refused to clap for any of Trump’s comments with the exception of when he brought up funding for Ukraine in its defensive war against Russia.
Many Democrats held up what appeared to be bingo signs that had “false” and other words written on them. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., held up a white board that she could write responses on, moves that were mocked online and criticized even by some liberal pundits.
“A sad cavalcade of self owns and unhinged petulance,” Fetterman said of his fellow lawmakers’ response. “It only makes Trump look more presidential and restrained. We’re becoming the metaphorical car alarms that nobody pays attention to — and it may not be the winning message.”
Fetterman wasn’t the only Democrat to criticize the response of lawmakers on the left during Trump’s joint address to Congress.
“This is an indictment, in my opinion, on the Democratic leadership,” Democratic strategist and former Bernie Sanders aide Symone Sanders said on MSNBC after Trump’s speech. “The visuals are not taking back the House in 2026. Not these visuals … Oh my … it was crazy.”
As The Center Square previously reported, Democratic Rep. Al Green of Texas stood up and began shouting at Trump only to be drowned out by Republican chants of “USA” and eventually escorted out of the chamber for refusing to be remain silent.
Casey Harper is a Senior Reporter for The Center Square’s Washington, D.C. Bureau. He previously worked for The Daily Caller, The Hill, and Sinclair Broadcast Group. A graduate of Hillsdale College, Casey’s work has also appeared in Fox News, Fox Business, and USA Today.
This article was republished with permission from The Center Square.
1. Far-Left people and Atheists (different than Agnostics) hate the idea of God. So they attempt to prove they can substitute themselves as God. They censor speech as such.
2. Substitute and Subsidy are quite different but related: “Subsidize” – provide financial assistance to help someone or something pay for costs, via “government funding” (taking your money and labor to pay for another thing.) “There is a faulty premise many people fall into, following the thought of men like Rousseau, believing that man is inherently good and suffering exists only because our institutions are flawed. You see it often: Somehow, as the comfortable, middle-class socialist will tell you, Communism ‘just hasn’t been implemented well.’ If we set up government to help people and put enough money into the schools, our problems would disappear. If the government rolled out a vast apparatus to deal with whatever issues arise in a natural disaster or public health crisis, no one would be unduly burdened.” – Thomas Sowell
Sowell explains why this is simply not the case. A more accurate vision of man is that he is “flawed from Day 1,” and however we might try to mitigate one of our failings, we unintentionally cause other problems. Instead of trying to “solve” whatever difficulty, injustice, and strife exist in our lives through bigger systems, Sowell suggests finding the trade-offs that provide the best possible outcome, understanding that no outcome will be perfect.
Atheists don’t hate the idea of God. And there are Atheist’s in the Right as well as well as Christians in the Left. You don’t have to hate something to not believe in it. You lso don’t need a certain political view to be part of a religion.
You already show massive bias and lack of understanding in your very first statement.
“You already show massive bias and lack of understanding in your very first statement.” – This applies to everything he posts.