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Gabrielle Canon and David Smith

Democrats refuse to stand for Trump as Al Green ejected over ‘apes’ protest sign

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The Texas congressman Al Green holds up a sign in the House chamber. He was ejected soon afterwards. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

As dozens of their colleagues boycotted Trump’s State of the Union address, several of the Democrats in the House chamber on Tuesday night made their opposition to the president’s remarks clear.

Congressman Al Green was ejected from the speech almost immediately, marking the second year in a row he has been removed from the annual event. After being ordered out by the House speaker, Mike Johnson, during last year’s speech for yelling responses as the president spoke, this year’s protest from the Texas representative was silent but pointed.

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