Social media rights are spreading misinformation, falsely claiming that President Joe Biden must provide the State of the Union address, some claiming the February 20 deadline has passed. Their false claims and fact-checking responses made “SOTU” trending on Twitter Thursday afternoon.
The outrage comes the same day that the Acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman said right-wing extremists on the House Appropriations Committee, whom they referred to as “militia” members, “have expressed their wishes that they blow up the Capitol and want to kill as many members as possible “the House and Senate” as possible.
House spokeswoman Nancy Pelosi has not yet set a date for a joint conference session. The President does not deliver a State of the Union address in his first year in office.
The February 20 claim, which is false, appears to have originated or was popularized by this Facebook post which initiated a verification of USA Today facts that it was “incorrect information.”
Despite the ignorance of the MAGA crowd and right wingers, the US Constitution is clear and offers few expectations for addressing Congress.
Article II, Paragraph 3, Clause 1 states that the President shall “from time to time provide Congress with information on the state of the Union and recommend measures which he deems necessary and appropriate.”
No date, mode, or even frequency is required. At the beginning of US history, the President wrote a letter to Congress.
Here’s a failed Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from New Jersey proposing that the constitution require an address from the state of the union. She claims that she is “asking on behalf of the Constitution”.
The President is constitutionally mandated to deliver a speech on the state of the Union at the invitation of the President of the House, which has been held in January / February since 1934.
This year’s #SOTU was listed as TBD.
Can we get an update @SpeakerPelosi?
Questions on behalf of the Constitution.
– Tricia Flanagan (R-NJ) (@NewDayForNJ) February 24, 2021
This MAGAite suggests that President Biden is a “fraud” and “not elected, illegitimate and totally unfit” for not providing an address for the state of the Union.
SOTU usually in late January or early February. Almost March and Fraud Biden a no show.
If Trump did this, this media would haunt him.
Biden is not elected, out of wedlock and completely unfit.
The rigged elections of November 3rd, 2011 always look like a worse crime. # StopTheSteal
– Roger Thornhill (@RogerthornH) February 25, 2021
A Washington Times columnist falsely claiming that President Biden cannot stand up long enough to provide an address:
Biden isn’t healthy enough to stand in front of Congress for 60-90 minutes and give a SOTU, and the Democrats know … so they have cover for him.
– Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) February 25, 2021
The former NRA spokesman and pro-gun extremist believes it should have been delivered “yesterday”.
Good question, we just discussed this on the air. When is the #SOTU? Wasn’t it provisionally planned for yesterday? https://t.co/fHIKDi7clt
– Dana Loesch (@DLoesch), February 24, 2021
“Conservative Christian”:
No. The real reason is that grandpa dementia probably fails to actually deliver a SOTU for 60 minutes. https://t.co/WLllUECrl9
– Ned Ryun (@nedryun) February 25, 2021
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