A town hall hosted by Rep. Byron Donalds turned chaotic Tuesday, with audience members repeatedly interrupting the Florida Republican, leading authorities to remove two people — the latest raucous town hall dominated by protests against President Trump’s administration.

Donalds, a three-term congressman running in next year’s Florida gubernatorial race, was asked a litany of often-testy questions, several of which focused on billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. Audience members booed or cheered — and, in some cases, angrily left early — throughout the almost two-hour event at Estero High School in southwest Florida. Donalds occasionally verbally sparred with the protesters.

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    9 days ago

    These politicians were elected by us. They don’t have the right to have their employees ( supposed to be “employers”. All hail the earth shattering stupidity of my stupid autocorrect) removed because we’re pissed at their job performance.

    Drag em out and throw em in jail

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    i’m just here sending hopes and prayers from canada. i don’t know if they’re the kind of prayers you’re looking for, but i’m sure God’ll sort it all out in the End.

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      Just keep that dumb fuck poilievre from taking the PM seat. That’s the biggest thing Canada can do for us.

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        i have absolutely no fucking idea what’s going to happen on monday. no fucking idea. all i can tell you is LOTS of people have already voted.

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      Before anyone is a jerk to you, thank you. Every bit of support is important, especially moral support. Kindness helps more than most know

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        i was actually hoping that people would realize that the “hopes” and “prayers” i’m not sending aren’t for your benefit. i figured the last sentence would make my statement clear, but apparently americans don’t see sarcasm any more unless you add a fucking tag at the end.