Sen. John Fetterman has no time for the “unhinged petulance” of his Democratic colleagues.
Throughout Donald Trump’s tackle to Congress on Wednesday, Democrats held up indicators, wore pink, heckled and even walked out early.
“A tragic cavalcade of self owns and unhinged petulance,” Fetterman wrote in response to a narrative at Politico that described how the protest had failed.
“It solely makes Trump look extra presidential and restrained.”
“We’re changing into the metaphorical automotive alarms that no person pays consideration to—and it is probably not the profitable message.”
A tragic cavalcade of self owns and unhinged petulance.
It solely makes Trump look extra presidential and restrained.
We’re changing into the metaphorical automotive alarms that no person pays consideration to—and it is probably not the profitable message. pic.twitter.com/hNgX7ouLjX
— U.S. Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) March 5, 2025
The Politico article in query made the next argument:
President Donald Trump mocked Democrats who sat in entrance of him Tuesday night time, needling them with a smile, “nothing I can say or do to make them glad.” Democrats principally responded with silent protest — carrying pink, waving placards emblazoned with “FALSE” and “Save Medicaid.”
Greater than a dozen walked out of his speech early, some revealing shirts that stated “No Kings Dwell Right here.”
The shambolic scene was emblematic of Democrats’ bigger downside after going through a brutal election cycle that locked them out of energy as they struggled to speak in a vastly fragmented media setting.
Although the official Democratic response, delivered by Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin, acquired carried on main networks, a lot of what Democrats needed to say didn’t play out on voters’ TVs.
Fetterman’s feedback underscore his want to be seen as a reasonable, even though he voted towards most of Donald Trump’s cupboard nominees and lately voted towards a invoice that might have prevented organic males from competing in girls’s sports activities.
John Fetterman is not any reasonable. https://t.co/46TKMY6IvY
— Ben Kew (@ben_kew) March 4, 2025
However, Fetterman did make an outreach to President Donald Trump following his landslide election victory, even touring all the way down to Mar-a-Lago to fulfill with him.
“I’m not the senator for simply Democrats in Pennsylvania. I’m everybody’s senator in Pennsylvania,” he stated forward of the assembly.
“It’s simply having a dialog.”
