Michigan Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib lashed out multiple times during President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night, including in a moment when she appeared to shout “KKK” while most of the chamber was chanting “USA.” The camera caught the Michigan congresswoman on screen during the exchange. Is Rashida Tlaib chanting “KKK” while everyone else chants “USA”? Sure looks like it pic.twitter.com/5nnp0or3Xn — Matthew Foldi (@MatthewFoldi) February 25, 2026 Republicans blasted Tlaib over the clip, with the National Republican Congressional Committee stating, “Everything you need to know about today’s Democrats. They cannot stand this country, they cannot stand its comeback, & they cannot hide their contempt anymore.” The Daily Wire reached out to Tlaib’s office for comment. Tlaib, a Muslim whose district includes the highly-populated Muslim city of Dearborn, Michigan, wore a pin to the State of the Union that read “F*CK ICE.” She also wore a pair of watermelon earrings that apparently signify her solidarity with the “Palestinian cause” and another pin that read “Stand with survivors, release the Epstein Files.” The Michigan congresswoman stood up alongside Minnesota leftist Rep. Ilhan Omar on other occasions during the speech to shout and wave fingers at Trump. Neither Omar nor Tlaib, however, stood when Trump asked members of Congress to get on their feet if they supported prioritizing Americans over illegal immigrants. They also did not stand when Trump highlighted the dozens of Israeli hostages who were rescued from Hamas captivity. Tlaib mostly ignored the instructions from Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who urged Democrats to remain quiet or skip the State of the Union altogether. “The two options that are in front of us in our House [are] to either attend with silent defiance or to not attend and send a message to Donald Trump in that fashion, which will include participation in a variety of different alternate programming that is going to take place in and around the Capitol complex,” Jeffries said last week. Dozens of Democrats boycotted the State of the Union and attended the “alternate programming” events, which were similar to political rallies where Democrats largely focused on bashing Trump’s immigration policies and tariffs. Tlaib and Omar opted to attend Trump’s speech and make a scene. Texas Democrat Al Green made a similar decision and was booted from the chamber after holding up a large sign that read, “Black people aren’t apes,” a reference to a video that was shared by President Trump on Truth Social that briefly depicted former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama as guerillas. It was the second year in a row that Green was escorted out of the chamber during Trump’s speech to Congress. During his address, Trump ripped Democrats multiple times, including calling them “crazy” for refusing to stand in support of protecting children from life-altering gender procedures. “Who can believe that we’re even speaking about things like this?” Trump asked. “But surely we can all agree no state can be allowed to rip children from their parents’ arms and transition them to a new gender against the parents, well, who would believe that were even talking about? We must ban it, and we must ban it immediately.”