Mass Opinion in the X Thread: Reactions to Democrats’ Non-Standing During Trump’s 2025 Address
A March 5, 2025, post by @Sassafrass_84 shared a graphic listing 15 issues (US farmers, manufacturing, small businesses, tax cuts, catching terrorists, protecting women, murdered women, fallen officers, steel workers, energy independence, stopping drug cartels, curbing tax waste, a West Point cadet, a child with brain cancer, ending a five-year war) where Democrats in Congress reportedly refused to stand or applaud during President Trump’s joint address. The caption highlighted their pink outfits as “faux support of women” and asked: “What do they stand for? Certainly not the American people.”
The post drew 2,155 likes, 79 replies, and 28k views.
Dominant view in the replies (sampled ~15 from Top and Latest):
Near-universal agreement that the Democrats’ actions showed contempt for core American interests. Users called the display “disgusting,” “shameful,” and proof Democrats are “anti-American,” “slimy,” or “scum.”
Recurring themes:
Democrats prioritize “mass illegal immigration, men in women’s sports, pedophiles & child abuse, insider trading, overtaxation, defunding police, fentanyl,” and other policies that “destroy America.”
Hypocrisy on women’s issues: wearing pink while opposing bills for biological fairness in sports.
They “sit for their own agendas,” not America, and only support what they can “control & grift from.”
Calls to remember it for midterms: “I really hope this doesn’t just go away… Shameful behavior, I hope they get swept.”
Direct quotes:
“They stand for everything that destroys America.”
“Proof that they are scum.”
“They sat for their own agendas not America.”
“Telling people you are Democrat now is equal to proclaiming support for terrorist organizations.”
Dissenting voice (1 in sample):
One reply accused the original poster of Trump bias, claiming Trump “doesn’t stand for POLICE” and called soldiers “losers & suckers."
Bottom line from the thread:
Mass opinion is overwhelmingly negative toward Democrats, framing their selective non-standing as rejection of broadly popular, non-partisan American values. The replies form a clear conservative echo chamber with almost no counter-pushback visible in the sampled responses. Typical of polarized X threads: strong agreement among like-minded users, minimal debate.
