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Who yelled out during the State of the Union?
PRESIDENT Joe Biden was loudly heckled from some attendees during his first State of the Union speech at the US Capitol.
Two Republicans were the most vocal which earned them widespread condemnation from the Democrats.
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Who yelled out during the State of the Union?
Republican representatives Lauren Boebert, Colorado, and Marjorie Taylor Greene, Georgia, both heckled President Joe Biden during his State of the Union address on March 1, 2022.
The pair constantly interrupted and interjected during Biden’s roughly hour-long speech.
Both were heard mumbling and yelling although at times it wasn’t clear what they were saying.
Both Boebert, 35, and Greene, 47, both yelled out “build a wall,” referring to former President Donald Trump's calls to construct a wall across the US southern border, when Biden referred to securing the border and reforming immigration law.
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What did Lauren Boebert say?
Later on, Biden, speaking about veterans and making a thinly veiled reference to his own late son Beau Biden, said, “they come home, many of the world’s fittest and best-trained warriors in the world, never the same.
"Headaches, numbness, dizziness. A cancer that would put them in a flag draped coffin.”
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In response, Boebert screamed: “You put them in! 13 of them,” invoking the deaths of 13 US troops in a bombing at Afghanistan's Kabul airport.
Many criticized Boebert for her comments but she took to Twitter posting: "When Biden said flag draped coffins I couldn't stay silent. I told him directly he did it. He put 13 in there.
"Our heroic servicemen and women deserve so much better."
Democrat Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, New York, said: "Her disruption was inappropriate, especially given the substance of the comments that the president was making at the time, which is to continue this way, which is to protect service members and our veterans."
Republican Senator John Thune also condemned the pair saying: “I don’t think there’s any place for that. It’s inappropriate.
"A State of the Union speech, whether you agree with the president or not, is an opportunity to show the American people the respect that the office deserve.,"
The pair though didn't entirely criticize Biden.
When he said “the answer is not to defund the police,” Greene joined the standing ovation and yelled: “That’s right!”
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