Rep. Al Green (D-TX) compared himself to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks after he once again got himself booted from President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night.
Green was removed from the address after he protested with an all-caps sign reading “BLACK PEOPLE AREN’T APES.” The sign was aimed at a now-deleted social media post on Trump’s Truth Social account which spoofed “The Lion King” with Democrats’ faces put on the characters, including Michelle and Barack Obama as primates. A senior official told news outlets a staffer “erroneously made the post.”
