Party leaders opted for a soberly delivered, centrist counter to the president’s speech, but the dominant image of Democratic pushback was a liberal congressman waving his cane in protest.

I look at the Democrats in front of me and realise there is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy to make them stand or smile,” Donald Trump told Congress on Tuesday.

House Democrats ignored the request from Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) for a “dignified” response to President Donald Trump’s address to Congress. During the Republican’s 100-minute speech, some members yelled out at Trump while several held up signs in a coordinated effort to silently protest his remarks.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries spoke out in defense of “a majority” of his party’s members who were demurely demonstrative during Trump’s speech “ [An] overwhelming majority of House Democrats approached the speech with the seriousness that it deserved on behalf of the American people,

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is defending the conduct of the “majority” of his fellow Democrats during President Trump’s defiant speech before Congress Tuesday night. But he