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  • Newswire: Congressman Green raised a bold sign at State of the Union indicating Black men are ready to fight

    Newswire: Congressman Green raised a bold sign at State of the Union indicating Black men are ready to fight

    Texas Congressman Al Green was shown the door during President Donald Trump’s “State of the Union” Monday night after holding up a sign written in large block letters that “Black People Aren’t Apes.”

    Green was responding to Trump’s racist social media post that depicted former President Barack Obama and Former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes on Trump’s “Truth Social Platform.”

    Representative Troy Nehls, a Texas Republican, attempted to snatch the sign from Green, a Democrat, as he held it up so all could see, but Green pushed Nehls away. Nehls was best known for having President Trump autograph a tie he wore to the “State of the Union.”

    Green was pushed and somewhat dragged through the crowd. White lawmakers cheered.

    Afterward, Green commented to Raw Story on his willingness to challenge Trump’s racism openly and directly: “If you tolerate this level of racism, you perpetuate it. I refuse to tolerate it. I don’t wanna see it normalized.”

    “And that’s why I flashed this to the president, so there would be no question as to where I stand. He needs to know that there are some people who have the courage to tell him things that he doesn’t want to hear, and that nobody else will tell him.”

    Green’s comments mirror those he made in 2025, when he was also removed from Trump’s joint address to Congress for speaking out. “It’s worth it to let people know that there are some people who are going to stand up to Trump,” Green said.

  • Donald Trump refuses to disavow support from David Duke, ex head of Ku Klux Klan

    By: Adam Rosenberg, Mashable

    “I don’t know anything about what you’re even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists,” an apparently confused Trump told Jake Tapper on CNN’s State of the Union.
    “I don’t know… did he endorse me? Or what’s going on? Because I know nothing about David Duke; I know nothing about white supremacists.”Tapper tried three times to get comment from Trump on Duke’s recent support of his presidential bid, and was stonewalled each time. The would-be Republican nominee wants to “look at the group” before passing judgment.
    “You wouldn’t want me to condemn a group that I know nothing about,” Trump said. “If you would send me a list of the groups, I will do research on them and certainly I would disavow if I thought there was something wrong.”
    Tapper fired back, expressing disbelief that Trump would be unfamiliar with such a public figure or the hate group he once represented. “I’m just talking about David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan here, but—”
    Trump interjected before he could finish: “Honestly, I don’t know David Duke. I don’t believe I’ve ever met him. I’m pretty sure I didn’t meet him. And I just don’t know anything about him.”
    Tapper’s line of questioning came in response to Duke’s comments on Feb. 25 that a vote against Trump is “treason to your heritage.”
    “I’m not saying I endorse everything about Trump,” Duke said on Thursday. “In fact, I haven’t formally endorsed him. But I do support his candidacy, and I support voting for him as a strategic action. I hope he does everything we hope he will do.”
    Trump’s refusal to distance himself from Duke during his chat with Tapper is odd, given that he did so already during a Friday news conference in Texas (via Buzzfeed). “I didn’t even know he endorsed me,” Trump said at the time. “David Duke endorsed me? I disavow, okay?”
    Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio had some choice words to share on Trump’s CNN appearance, and his unwillingness to distance himself from Duke.
    “Not only is that wrong, it makes him unelectable,” Rubio said Sunday at a capacity crowd in Purcellville, Virginia. “How are we going to grow our party when we have a nominee who wont repudiate the Ku Klux Klan?”
    Rubio added that Trump was lying when he said he didn’t know who Duke is.
    In a subsequent statement from Trump’s campaign office, Trump asserted that his earpiece was working properly during the CNN interview with Jake Tapper.