Cory Booker Rails Against Trump & “Disneyfication” Of U.S. History As Epic Floor Speech Nears Senate Record

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Elections in Florida and Wisconsin today make shift the political landscape for Donald Trump and Democrats, but it is Cory Booker who has taken centerstage. “This is a moral moment in America, what are we going to do?” the senior Senator from New Jersey asked his colleagues and the many watching on C-Span and other networks Berating the MAGA administration and its blitzkrieg polices in a Senate floor speech that has lasted more than 23 hours and is still going, Sen.

Booker is praising M&Ms (a Garden State invention) and naming names — including his own party, Trump and the House of Mouse. “We have to redeem the dream,” the two-term Democrat proclaimed of Trump’s attacks on the rule of law, International allies, DEI programs and outreach, the media, the courts, Congress, universities, the civil service immigrants and millions of Americans, especially minorities and those less fortunate. “We have to excite people again.

He, in the highest office of our land, wants to divide us against ourselves, wants to make us afraid, wants to make us fear so much that we’re willing to violate people’s fundamental rights.” Covered live since Monday by C-SPAN, Booker’s increasingly passionate speech has been on CNN and MSNBC sporadically throughout the day – with a clock sometimes on-screen.

Unsurprisingly, Fox News did not cut to Booker that often. With a spotlight on Trump moves to take over the likes of the Smithsonian and literally erase heroes like Jackie Robinson, the Tuskegee Airmen, LGBTQ+ advocates and service members, Iwo Jima flag raiser Ira Hayes and more from government websites and history, Sen.