{"id":5938,"date":"2026-02-26T23:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T23:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=5938"},"modified":"2026-02-26T23:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T23:34:10","slug":"rashida-tlaib-chants-kkk-as-gop-lawmakers-cheer-usa-at-sotu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=5938","title":{"rendered":"Rashida Tlaib Chants \u2018KKK\u2019 as GOP Lawmakers Cheer \u2018USA\u2019 at SOTU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Far-left \u201cSquad\u201d member Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) was caught on camera chanting \u201cKKK\u201d as Republican lawmakers cheered \u201cUSA\u201d during President Donald Trump\u2019s State of the Union address on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) posted a clip of Tlaib seated next to fellow far-left Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MO) repeatedly chanting the moniker of the infamous hate group. The NRCC slammed Tlaib for her blatant display of \u201ccontempt\u201d for the United States.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEverything you need to know about today\u2019s Democrats. They cannot stand this country, they cannot stand its comeback, &amp; they cannot hide their contempt anymore,\u201d the NRCC post reads.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2026505894771519709\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NRCC\/status\/2026505894771519709\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>President Trump excoriated both Tlaib and Omar in a post on Truth Social after his address, calling them \u201clunatics\u201d and \u201cmentally deranged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhen you watch Low IQ Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, as they screamed uncontrollably last night at the very elegant State of the Union, such an important and beautiful event,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThey had the bulging, bloodshot eyes of crazy people, LUNATICS, mentally deranged and sick who, frankly, look like they should be institutionalized.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhen people can behave like that, and knowing that they are Crooked and Corrupt Politicians, so bad for our Country, we should send them back from where they came \u2014 as fast as possible,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"\/>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2026706703408828886\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricLDaugh\/status\/2026706703408828886\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tlaib and Omar, who are the first female Muslim lawmakers to serve in Congress, were tuned out for most of the president\u2019s speech and appeared to be playing on their cellphones \u2014 only pausing to scream nasty remarks at the president, the New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/25\/us-news\/rep-rashida-tlaib-sparks-outrage-after-chanting-kkk-during-trumps-sotu-address\/\">reported<\/a>. Both reportedly left early.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of Democrats boycotted the speech, including Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), who attended an event run by left-wing activists to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2026\/02\/25\/democrat-rep-pramila-jayapal-skips-sotu-rage-about-standing-up-for-trans-kids\/\">advocate<\/a> for transing minors.<\/p>\n<p><i>Katherine Hamilton is a political reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her on X\u00a0<\/i><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thekat_hamilton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\"><i>@thekat_hamilton<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/pre-viral\/2026\/02\/26\/rep-rashida-tlaib-caught-chanting-kkk-as-gop-lawmakers-cheered-usa-president-trumps-sotu\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far-left \u201cSquad\u201d member Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) was caught on camera chanting \u201cKKK\u201d as Republican lawmakers cheered \u201cUSA\u201d during President Donald Trump\u2019s State of the Union&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}