Immediately following President Trump’s historic Joint Address to Congress, Speaker Johnson joined Fox News to offer reaction.
“If [Democrats] are going to use a 77-year-old heckling Congressman as the face of their resistance, then bring it on,” Speaker Johnson said. “But we’re not going to tolerate that on the House floor. And I don’t think the American people are going to tolerate that either.”
On President Trump’s Joint Address:
It was not a speech for the mainstream media, it was a speech for the American people. And I’m sure it was received as well at home as it was there by the Republicans and the audience up in the gallery. It was really shameful what the Democrats did. I mean, that really was quite a spectacle. They brought shame on themselves and their party. But the American people are following what the President is delivering, and they are appreciating it, and we certainly did tonight in the chamber.
On Democrats shameful, embarrassing behavior:
If they’re going to use a 77-year-old heckling Congressman as the face of their resistance, then bring it on. But we’re not going to tolerate that on the House floor. And I don’t think the American people are going to tolerate that either. We escorted him off the floor. He couldn’t behave himself, it’s quite shameful. I’m sure his constituents are not proud of that tonight, but I suspect that there’ll be a censure resolution brought on the floor to discipline him. We have to do that inside the house. We have to maintain decorum.
The Democrats don’t have a leader, they don’t have a vision, they don’t have a platform they can run on. So, all they can do is this make it a spectacle on the House floor, but we’re going to govern Sean, and we’re going to move the ball forward to the American people, and it is going to be a new golden age for America. President Trump is leading it. We are so excited to be a part of it.
