# Washington Post columnist mocks Democratic Party's protests at Trump's address | Fox News

## Columnist Monica Hesse

### Columnist Monica Hesse

Columnist Monica Hesse said she 'started to really worry about the resistance' after watching Democrats during the president's address to Congress.

## Columnist Monica Hesse

In the piece, opinion columnist Monica Hesse trashed the Democratic Party’s chosen methods of protesting Trump’s speech. Hesse argued that the displays were ultimately ineffective in doing anything to derail the president’s agenda or make him look bad, and just revealed how incompetent the party is right now.

She wrote that the "Democratic message" on display at the speech was, "We do not know what to do."



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## Democratic members of Congress hold up signs reading "Save Medicaid" and "Protect Veterans" as US President Donald Trump speaks during an address to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)



During Trump’s nearly two-hour-long speech, dozens of Democratic lawmakers wore matching pink outfits and carried signs to protest the Trump agenda. The signs had different messages on them, with some reading, "MUSK STEALS," "SAVE MEDICAID," and others stating, "FALSE," which were meant to be held up when lawmakers heard a point from the president that they alleged was wrong.



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After mentioning that anti-Trump lawmakers had weeks to prepare a meaningful opposition plan for the speech, she wrote sarcastically, "That opposition plan was: wear pink."

Hesse quoted Democratic Women’s Caucus chair Leger Fernandez’s defense of the outfits. "The color signaled ‘our protest of Trump’s policies which are negatively impacting women and families.’" The columnist then skewered the method, writing, "Great idea. I, too, would like to protest those policies. But if this is the revved-up version of the opposition, was the previous version just … the hooptie sitting on blocks on your neighbor’s front lawn? A Schwinn?"

The biting analogies kept coming, with Hesse focusing her fire on the signs next. The columnist wrote, "One presumes that the paddles, which members held up discreetly at sporadic intervals through the address, were intended to be pointed but also somber. But the overall effect of the whole scene was, ‘On our way to Barbenheimer, we were kidnapped by Sotheby’s and forced to bid on our dignity.’”





"Hessey wrote, "These props — along with the shirts reading ‘RESIST’ worn by some members — were simultaneously too perfunctory and too earnest. Earnest doesn’t register with this White House, where Elon Musk showed up to a Cabinet meeting in a ‘Tech Support’ T-shirt and Dark Maga ball cap, as if he’d pwned USAID for the lulz," she added.

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