Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-New Mexico, held a sign that read “this is not normal" that Republican Rep. Lance Gooden of Texas ripped away.

Democrats have spent days deciding how to protest Trump’s unofficial State of the Union address. A small faction decided not to attend. That included Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Patty Murray, the latter of whom on Monday said that the true state of the union saw Trump “spitting in the face of the law.”

Trump’s contentious session was riddled with Democrat protests, despite the House Freedom Caucus, which is composed of far-right Republicans, claiming that Democrats who “use noisemakers, make threats, throw things or otherwise disrupt” will face repercussions.