Members of the Congressional Black Caucus [#CBC], including Illinois Rep #LaurenUnderwood, plan to wear black to the speech to "capture the party's somber mood," according to her & to reports from Axios.

Other members are planning to wear blue & yellow to show solidarity with #Ukraine, just days after #Trump ordered a pause on military #aid to the country.

#USpol #geopolitics

Some #Democrats will be wearing stickers saying #ElonMusk is stealing #SocialSecurity.

Several Dems will boycott #Trump’s speech altogether.

Me? I am having a martini to gird myself against the terror.

And that’s what I’ve decided Trump has been up to in his first 50ish days, a campaign of #terror against the citizens of the US & the citizens of planet earth.

#TrumpIsATerrorist.

🧵 reportedly, #Trump going to blame #Biden [shocker 🙄] for inflation, including egg prices specifically. The price of a dozen #eggs in US cities hit a record $4.95 in January, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as millions of hens have been slaughtered in the hopes of containing a bird flu outbreak.

Not for nothing, #Musk fired the folks working on #BirdFlu & Trump has an #antivaxxer, #RFKJr, in charge of the #HHS.

Watch (if you dare) #Trump’s address to the #JointSession to #Congress:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6zaAzNXc5

[this soooooo gonna suck]

I have watched dozens of these speeches & that was the least engagement with the opposition party I have ever seen.

There was none.

#trump #JointSession

As #Trump walked into #Congress, a lawmaker — it appeared to be #MelanieStansbury, a #Democrat from New Mexico — held up a sign saying “This is not normal.”
Reporters in the chamber are saying that it was ripped out of her hands.

Rep. #AlGreen (D-Texas) stood up & shook his cane at #Trump & told him, “You don’t have a mandate!” Republicans almost immediately drowned him out with “USA, USA, USA” chants.

Mike Johnson just had security remove Re Green.

#resist

Brilliant! #Democrats have paddles like Olympic Judges to #FactCheck #TrumpLies!

Signs read: “False”, “Save Medicaid”, “Musk Steals”, “Protect Medicaid”, “Protect Veterans” & more.

#Ttump #JointSession #USpol

#Trump can’t take it & ad libs insults at #Democrats.

Side bar: Rep #AlGreen’s official twitter account has spent the last few days tweeting about people who committed acts of defiance: #NatTurner. #HarrietTubman. The #Democrat from #Texas’s pinned post is of the late congressman #JohnLewis.

#GoodTrouble

#JointSession #Trump #USpol

#TrumpLies are too many for me to live #FactCheck. I’ll try to deal w/that shitshow later, tho I’ll highlight a few.

E.G.
Trump just claimed he’s stopped “government censorship” & “brought back free speech in America.” In reality, Trump has signed #ExecutiveOrders that’s required the govt to scrub certain words & phrases from the public domain, dictating “patriotic education,” & just today announced that #schools would lose federal funding if they allowed students to engage in certain protests.

Holy hell. He is listing a bunch of stuff & he is lying about all of it. I just can’t.

“Nobody has ever heard of” #Lesotho, #Trump says, continuing his track record of dismissing lower-income countries. Lesotho has 2.3 million residents, a bit larger than New Mexico & more populous than 13 states. Lesotho is also larger than Melania’s native country of Slovenia, which only has 2.1 million people.

A lot of boos as #Trump praised #ElonMusk & #DOGE.

Trump is lying about something that he & #Musk have said before: that there’s massive “fraud” in #SocialSecurity being paid out to deceased Americans still in the system.

Analysts & watchdog groups have thoroughly DEBUNKED this crap.

The problem is neither new nor a sign of widespread fraud, but a technological issue w/Social Security’s tracking system & does not represent a source of significant spending.

#FactCheck #TrumpLies

#Trump falsely stated that #DOGE has found “hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud.” DOGE has claimed to have cut $9 billion thus far.

Trump is talking about firing federal workers & “reclaiming power from bureaucrats.” His efforts to expand presidential power by firing workers and removing independent agency leaders have been largely blocked so far in federal courts.

#FactCheck #TrumpLies #Musk #USpol

#Trump trashes the federal work force for not being at work in person since the pandemic, & says those who “resist this change will be removed from office immediately.”

The days of being ruled by “unelected bureaucrats” are over, Trump says.

#Democrats scoff & point up at the gallery where #Musk is sitting.

#USpol #FactCheck #TrumpLies

Most #Republicans stood up to applaud #Trump’s announcement that he would impose reciprocal #tariffs on April 2, but several remained seated, including Sens #LisaMurkowski (Alaska), #SusanCollins (Maine) & #RogerWicker (Mississippi).

I don’t care if they sit or stand. I want them to vote for the US interests & stop kowtowing to Trump.

#Trump promised #auto industry growth even as all automakers have stated that his #tariffs on #Mexico & #Canada will disrupt their North American #SupplyChains & increase costs for them that they will pass on to #consumers.