(Updated with Rep. Green statement)Once again, Rep.Al Green(D-TX) has voiced his displeasure withDonald Trumpas POTUS addressed Congress, and once again the Texas Democrat has been made to leave the chamber.

Tonight, Green held up a sign that read “Black People Aren’t Apes!” as Trump entered the floor of the House of Representatives to deliver the firstState of the Unionof his second term. When Trump and his entourage of GOP leaders walked down the aisle, Majority Leader Steven Scalise tried unsuccessfully to tear the sign down.

Republicans moved fast tonight to try to mask Green’s message from public eyes, especially those watching on TV or online.Watch on Deadline

Reps. Pat Fallon (R-TX) and John McGuire (R-VA) and Sens. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) and Roger Marshall (R-KS) all moved to block Green’s sign from being seen

Within minutes of Trump taking the podium, Rep. Green held up his apparently hand written sign again for all, including Trump, to clearly see.

In a repeat of Trump’s record breaking long speech before Representatives, Senators, cabinet members, SCOTUS and invited guests last year, Rep. Green was then escorted out of the room. At one point, it looked like things between Green and fellow Texan Rep. Troy Nehis (R-TX) were going to get physical, but the latter Congressman was pulled away from 78-year-old Democrat.

Just like 2025, Republicans filled the air with chants of “USA, USA, USA!” as the African-American Congressman was ejected.

While the C-Span cameras captured Rep. Green’s protest and sign, and GOP reactions, they were quick to cut away to wide shoots once security began leading the longtime Lone Star state Congressman to the door. On CNN, MS Now and others, there was no mention of what was occurring in real time as Trump started talking and talking in what he had already promised would be a “long speech.”

Outside the chamber, Rep. Green said to other C-Span cameras that he “would do it again. The 11-term Congressman, who is facing a stiff primary this year going into the midterms, emphasized that he refused “to tolerate this level of hate that the President is in fact, putting into policy.”

“We must take a stand against this level of invidious discrimination,” Congressman Green explained, stating there were others in both houses of Congress who agreed with him but won’t say it to Trump hmself. “I wanted him to know, and I wanted him to see it and hear it up close,” Green explained of why he held up the sign in front of Trump.” But judging from the expression on his face, he got the message. He saw it, he got the message, and I hope that others will let him have a similar message, so that he would discontinue this behavior.”

Source: Drudge Report