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President Donald Trump spoke to a joint session of Congress last night.

This was not a State of the Union address.

Rather, it followed the precedent set by President Reagan in 1981

and continued by every president since

as they delivered speeches to Congress and the nation in the months after being inaugurated.

The one-hour 40-minute address was the longest of its kind.

Mr. Trump defended his policies, casting his first month in office as the most successful in history.

He said he received a letter earlier in the day from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky,

saying he was ready to sign a proposed

minerals deal between the two nations. And Mr. Trump said the mastermind of a 2021 bombing during

the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan has been detained. However, seven minutes into the speech,

Representative Al Green, Democrat of Texas,

was escorted out of the chamber after rising from a seat and shouting at the president.

Numerous other Democrats marched out of the chamber of their own accord. By the time the

address was over, their side of the aisle was half empty.

Many Democratic women wore bright pink in a display of defiance.

Some Democrats held up protest signs during the address. Others refused to attend. One hosted a Facebook

Live town hall instead. The publication, The Hill, called Democrats' actions, quote, an extraordinary display of

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