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In the midst of the debut presidential speech Donald Trump made yesterday following his January inauguration, an outraged Congressman was escorted away from the political gathering.
Al Green, the Democratic representative for Texas, audibly protested against the Republican's key objectives for the next four years, as well as Trump's take on the situation in Ukraine.
Speaking in Congress on Tuesday (4 Mar), Trump kicked off his speech by gloating about his November electoral victory against Democratic representative Kamala Harris, describing the win as a 'mandate like has not been seen in many decades'.
It was then that left-wing Texas politician Al Green spoke out.
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Yelling, 'No mandate!' in the father-of-five's direction, speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, was then forced to intervene.
"Mr. Green, take your seat," he instructed. "Take your seat, sir, take your seat."
After the Texan continued to protest, Johnson ruled: "Members continue to engage in willful and concerted disruption of proper decorum. The Chair now directs the sergeant at arms to restore order."
77-year-old Green was subsequently removed from the building, after which a crowd of right-wing politicians burst into cheers.
Take a look at the moment here:
Speaking afterwards to press, the Democrat claimed: "I was making it clear to the President that he has no mandate to cut Medicaid."
According to C-SPAN, Green - who claimed he was 'willing to suffer whatever punishment is available' - went on to admit: "I have people who are very fearful. These are poor people.
"And they have only Medicaid in their lives when it comes to their health care."
Adding of Trump administration's controversial cuts, he continued: "I want him to know that his budget calls for deep cuts in Medicaid. He needs to save Medicaid and protect it. We need to raise the cap on Social Security."
Whilst coming for Kamala during the opening of his speech, 78-year-old Trump also began by slamming his liberal predecessor Joe Biden for his policies and pricing, before reading a letter written by Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy following their Oval Office spat on Friday (29 Feb).
Listeners expected the US leader to announce that a peace deal had been reached, but were disappointed when he skirted around this topic. He did the same when the war in Gaza was brought up.
Elsewhere, Trump attempted to justify the tariffs triggered - 25 percent on Mexico and Canada, and 10 per cent on Chinese imports - by the trade war he sparked his week, and insisted he's tackling inflation behind the scenes.
He also gave controversial Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) co-lead Elon Musk for the work he'd put in so far in cutting down the federal workforce - duties which haven't gone down well so far with millions of American citizens.
And it wouldn't be one of Trump's speech without a handful of references to immigration.
Trump reaffirmed his promise of the 'largest deportation operation in American history' in the presence of several individuals whose families has been killed by illegal immigrants.
