THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Hecklers appeared to make more noise than attendees at an anti-Trump rally sponsored by left-wing group MoveOn and featuring former MSNBC hosts Joy Reid and Katie Phang.
President Donald Trump gave his State of the Union address Tuesday, with over 70 congressional Democrats electing to boycott the speech. During the MoveOn event, one heckler jumped onto the stage while Democratic Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy was decrying Trump’s immigration policy.
“Go Trump! Go Trump!” the man, who was wearing a “Trump 2024” hat, shouted, adding, “Hey, Murphy, you’re a scumbag.”
Security hustled the man off stage, as Murphy continued to rant against Trump’s policies on immigration.
The rally appeared to be sparsely attended with a crowd that did not appear energetic with coughing seeming to be louder than cheers or boos according to video posted on X by Daily Caller News Foundation Associate Editor Caleb Howe.
“You can’t HANDLE this level of enthusiasm from the yuge crowd at MoveOn ‘People’s State Of The Union’ featuring Joy Reid and Katie Phang,” Howe said.
Reid and Phang were also heckled during the event, with Reid attempting to claim that one heckler was actually a “fan.”
“Reid, you suck, you loser!” the heckler shouted, only for Reid to claim, “My fans are back. What I always say is, you know who I am and I don’t know who you are, that means you’re a fan. You’re a fan.”
MoveOn, as well as many of the Democratic lawmakers who attended the counter-rally, has received donations from groups connected to left-wing billionaire George Soros and his family, according to public records.
Democrats are demanding new restrictions on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after federal immigration officers were involved in the fatal January shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good during Operation Metro Surge—a deployment of hundreds of federal agents to Minnesota in response to reports of a massive welfare fraud mostly involving Somali migrants.
Originally published by The Daily Caller News Foundation.