Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley are skipping Trump's State of the Union address: 'Will not legitimize it'

Hours before the 2020 State of the Union, Democratic Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts on Tuesday afternoon both announced that they will not be attending President Donald Trump's address.

The freshman Democrats will join five other House Democrats in boycotting Trump's last SOTU address before the 2020 elections, which is taking place on the eve of the Senate impeachment trial vote which is expected to acquit the president. The five Democrats—Reps.

"After much deliberation, I have decided that I will not use my presence at a state ceremony to normalize Trump's lawless conduct & subversion of the Constitution," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Tuesday afternoon."None of this is normal, and I will not legitimize it. Consequently, I will not be attending the State of the Union.

We do not legitimize you! You do not care about our prosperity, our freedom and our dreams. You only care about your maquiavelic political agenda!

How in the hell does your presence legitimate anything?

As a Representative for her constituents , she should be there to hear the speech first hand. Respect the office, even though she doe not respect the Pres.

So they aren't standing in to represent the American people. Shameful.

Those missing from SOTU are pathetic

Well shucky darn it’s like every other day of his presidency.

Nobody cares what AOC does.

They’re not missing much. Lie...lie...lie...pander pander...lie...attack “previous administration” lie...lie...presidential Medal of Freedom to WHO?!?! What?!?! Lie...lie...pander pander...lie..lie.. more lies and lots of unceremonious butt kissing by a room full of lemmings

It’s quite nauseating, especially when LimBALK was honored as some kind of hero? Seriously?! Wow, ANYBODY can get away w/ANYTHING right before our very eyes & on national television. It was equivalent to watching a criminal assault yet another victim

Who is she?

And no one cares.

No one cares. They are not missed.

Whatever 🙄

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