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Democrat Congressman Al Green (Texas), famous for inexplicably and repeatedly attempting to impeach President Trump, has been defeated in a runoff primary election, prompting a sardonic jab from the president.
“Al Green, one of the most mentally deficient Congressmen in the history of our Country, has lost, in a landslide, his seat in Congress – But I will miss that lunatic not screaming and violently waving his cane at me during my next State of the Union Speech,” President Trump wrote on Truth Social on Wednesday morning, following Tuesday’s election results.
Americans may recall that Green was escorted out of President Trump’s State of the Union address earlier this year for disrupting the proceedings.
“Last night I stood up for those who need Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security,” Green wrote on X following his antics. “Democrats will never abandon the fight to make sure every American has a safe, healthy, and financially secure life.”
This year’s State of the Union was hardly the first time he’d caused a ruckus.
Green has also attempted to impeach President Trump a total of at least six times, beginning during the president’s first term, and continuing his efforts into the president’s second. He has long criticized the president and accused him of things like “white nationalism” or “neo-Nazism” (see Green’s first articles of impeachment against the president in 2017, for example).
Green lost his congressional race on Tuesday following a reshuffling of district lines, amid the state’s newly drawn maps. According to Fox News, Green went head-to-head with fellow incumbent Democrat Rep. Christian Menefee for the 18th District seat.
Menefee easily beat out Green, winning the seat by a whopping 38 points, according to NBC’s election night data on Tuesday.
Menefee will face little-known Republican Ronald Whitfield in the General Election in November.
