Democratic leadership told their members to keep it cool if they decided to show up to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union Tuesday night.
But it didn’t take long before Trump started pushing the right buttons.
The party’s strategy for “silent defiance” fell apart during Trump’s nearly 2-hour-long speech, with stone-faced Democrats eventually erupting as Trump repeatedly highlighted issues he’s fought Democrats on. “You have killed Americans!” shouted Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., repeatedly, as Trump trumpeted his immigration enforcement record.
