Democrats attending Donald Trump’s speech to the Joint Session of Congress Tuesday night showed their displeasure with the Trump Administration, only one month into its tenure, with a series of subtle protests.
Democratic women dressed all in white as a show of solidarity, and as a throwback to the suffragettes, who fought to give women the right to vote in the early 20th century.
By dressing in white, they said, they were honoring the founders of the women’s rights movement, and sending a signal to Donald Trump that they would not allow his administration to “roll back” things like equal pay and family leave.
Others are sporting plastic question mark pins: a white question mark on a field of purple. The pin represents “lingering questions” they say still remain about Trump’s qualifications to hold the nation’s highest office.
Elizabeth Warren and other progressive members of the Senate wore blue ACLU ribbons similar to those worn by celebrities on the Oscars red carpet on Sunday. A number of other legislators wore more subtle pins – a small gold pin representing support for Planned Parenthood, a blue pin that says #ProtectourCare (referring to Obamacare), and a green pin symbolizing support for Veteran’s charities.
Donald Trump made unity and bipartisan agreement the hallmark of his speech to the joint session, stressing unity on a legislative agenda in ways his admininstration has been unable to in its opening weeks.
