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M.B. Mack

Al Green's Removal Slammed After Users Point Out How Republicans Also Protested at Biden's Address: 'The Double Standard'

US Representative Al Green (D-TX) shouts out as US President Donald Trump speaks during an address to a joint session of Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025. (Credit: Win McNamee/AFP via Getty Images)

X users are calling out a double standard after Democratic Rep. Al Green was removed from President Donald Trump's address to Congress for protesting, while past Republican lawmakers who interrupted former President Joe Biden were allowed to stay.

In 2009, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) famously shouted "You lie!" at President Barack Obama, and in 2022, Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Lauren Boebert (R-CO) repeatedly interrupted Biden's State of the Union address, the New York Times reported.

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