「狂気と憎悪の党」米ホワイトハウス、トランプ氏やじった民主党批判

【ワシントンＡＦＰ＝時事】ドナルド・トランプ米大統領が連邦議会で行った施政方針演説に民主党議員が激しく抗議したのを受け、ホワイトハウスは５日、民主党を「狂気と憎悪の党」と非難した。（写真は、米首都ワシントンの連邦議会議事堂で、上下両院合同会議でのドナルド・トランプ大統領の演説中、抗議のプラカードを掲げる民主党議員ら）
　トランプ氏は４日夜の施政方針演説で、自身の急進的な政策を喧伝するとともに連邦政府の官僚機構に対する攻撃を自賛。政権は「始まったばかりだ」と述べた。
　共和党議員らはほぼすべての発言に拍手喝采したが、演説の途中で抗議が始まった。
　民主党議員の一人はつえでトランプ氏を指しながらやじを飛ばすのをやめなかったため、退場させられた。
　他の民主党議員らは「虚偽」「それはうそだ」と書かれたプラカードを黙って掲げていた。
　多くの民主党員が「１月６日！」と声を上げる場面もあった。これはトランプ氏が２０２０年大統領選の敗北を認めなかった後、同氏の支持者らが連邦議会議事堂を襲撃した日を指すものだ。
　ホワイトハウスのキャロライン・レビット報道官は５日の記者会見で、「民主党は狂気と憎悪の党であることを自ら露呈した」「昨夜の民主党の行動はまったく恥ずべきものであり、彼らが米国民からいかにかけ離れた存在であるかを示している」と批判。
　「あの素晴らしい議場での大統領演説史上、最も恥ずべき瞬間だった」「わが国にとって団結の瞬間となるはずだった時に、民主党議員らは米大統領に怒鳴りちらしたのだ」と続けた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2025/03/06-17:12）

US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Democrats who heckled him during a speech to Congress behaved so badly they deserve to lose the next congressional election.
On Tuesday evening in a speech to a joint session of Congress, Trump touted his radical policies as he celebrated his drive to dismantle much of the federal bureaucracy and said his administration was just getting started.
Republican Party members applauded almost every line, but protests also began mid-speech, with one Democratic congressman ejected because he refused to stop heckling Trump and shaking his walking stick at the president.
Other Democrats silently held up placards reading False and That's a lie!
In a post Wednesday on his Truth Social platform, Trump said: The Democrats should lose the Midterms based on their behavior at last night?s Joint Address to Congress.
They didn't even have the common courtesy to stand, smile, or applaud, he wrote, adding that Republicans should campaign on this behavior in the next midterm election in 2026.
Earlier the White House accused Democrats of being the party of insanity and hate, citing their boisterous protests as Trump spoke.
The Democrats exposed themselves as the party of insanity and hate, Trump's spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told reporters.
At one moment in Trump's speech, numerous Democrats yelled January 6!, referring to his supporters' violent attack on the Capitol after he refused to concede his 2020 election loss.
The behavior of Democrats last night was completely disgraceful and demonstrated how severely out of touch they are with the American public, Leavitt said.
It was the most shameful moment in the history of presidential addresses in that beautiful chamber.
In what was supposed to be a unifying moment for our country, Democrat members of Congress instead screamed at the president of the United States.