Meadows: ‘No One that Puts Their Name Out There to Serve This Country’ in Congress ‘Is Un-American’

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Wolf,” House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-NC) responded to the president’s comments about Congressional Democrats not applauding during the State of the Union by stating, “I think no one that puts their name out there to serve this country is un-American.”

Meadows said, “Well, I mean, obviously, you have a partisan divide. That’s what they call reaching across that aisle, that center aisle that goes down to where the president was speaking. But I think the disappointment on the president’s part, and I don’t want to speak for him, was that when he talked about African-American unemployment being the lowest that we’ve had in history, and not to have even a bipartisan support for things like that. We understand the controversial issues, but when you have people who have lost loved ones to gang members, not being able to stand up and support and show support for those, even Republicans and Democrats should be able to come together and applaud those kinds of lines. And I think that’s what the president was dismayed about, in terms of seeing that response.”

He added, “Well, obviously, I think no one that puts their name out there to serve this country is un-American. I mean, to go through what all we have to go through, you know, whether you love us or hate us, and most of that’s on the hate side of it, but you know, you make great sacrifices to serve your country.”

Meadows continued, “And yet, at the same time, when we saw people up in the gallery, when you have law enforcement officers and you have military men and women, you have people who had lost their loved ones, we’ve got to come together at least on those kinds of issues to applaud the heroic efforts of many of those folks. And I think we can do that, but certainly, saying that someone’s un-American because of their unwillingness to clap is not something that most Americans would agree with.”

(h/t Grabien)

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