President Donald Trump’s pledge to “drain the swamp” during an address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday drew audible coughing and laughter from inside the chamber.
“We have begun to drain the swamp of government corruption by imposing a 5 year ban on lobbying by executive branch officials,” Trump said, before the coughing began, “and a lifetime ban on becoming lobbyists for a foreign government.”
Watch below via NBC’s Bradd Jaffy:
Laughter in the House chamber when Trump said “we have begun to drain the swamp” pic.twitter.com/YbZ0yza7bO
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) March 1, 2017