Maxine Waters Will Follow Trump's First State of the Union By Giving Her Own Speech
Democratic Representative Maxine Waters of California,—she who made “reclaiming my time” a rallying cry—will be is now claiming the spot following President Donald Trump‘s first State of the Union address next Tuesday. Directly after his speech, she’ll be popping by the beginning of BET’s Trump-focused Angela Rye’s State of the Union, a quarterly special bringing political commentator Rye and BET together to comment on Black American issues, according to Buzzfeed.
Waters is known for her fierce outspokenness, including a few viral moments during the past year, whether it’s been for her grilling of Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin during which she infamously “reclaimed her time”, or for that moment when she started an “Impeach 45!” chant at the 2017 Glamour Women of the Year Awards. She’s also a feminist icon: she recently wrote an essay for Glamour.com about how the Women’s March revived her faith in the younger generation.
Don’t expect her told hold back during the BET special. “Auntie Maxine,” as her devoted fans call her, has already made her feelings about the president quite clear. While politics is often jargon and spin, Waters hasn’t been afraid to say what’s really on her mind when it comes to Trump—or really anything.
“The most upsetting part is discovering that the person who won the election and became the president of the United States of America is a man who has no good values. His character astounds me,” she said in an interview with Glamour.com last June. “I can’t believe that we have a president who would lie, who would distort, and who does not appear to have an appreciation for government and how it works.”
Waters’ speech is not the official Democratic response to Trump’s first State of the Union—Representative Joe Kennedy of Massachusetts will be delivering that. But official or not, surely Waters will have plenty to say. Perhaps she’ll coin a new catchphrase?
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–Maxine Waters on How the Women’s March Revived Her Faith in the Younger Generation
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–Watch Maxine Waters Start an ‘Impeach!’ Chant at the 2017 Glamour Women of the Year Awards