Democrats plan an alternative to Trump's SOTU address, a "People's State of the Union" event [View all]

“He’s made a mockery of the State of the Union speech and he doesn’t deserve an audience,” said Sen. Christopher Murphy (D-CT), the Times reported.

“He’s going to tell 40 different lies, call Democrats names; he’s going to paper over his corruption, and I don’t feel like what he’s doing dignifies having Democrats there to cloak the speech in a veneer of respectability.”

The alternative event – organized in part by the progressive organization MoveOn – is planned to take place simultaneously with Trump’s address and be held at the National Mall near the Capitol. Such an event would be unprecedented given the lack of historical precedent for a president’s State of the Union address being met with a sizable boycott.

“We cannot normalize this moment when Trump is marching our country toward fascism,” said Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), speaking with the Times. “I refuse to be a prop in the chamber as Donald Trump shreds our Constitution and attacks our democracy.”

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