Democratic Congresswoman Caught Playing Candy Crush During The SOTU Address

What a bigger SOTU sin? Deliberately refusing to celebrate the things that unify us or straight up ignoring everything and playing Candy Crush instead?

That’s what Michigan Rep. Brenda Lawrence was doing. Yep. See?

Michigan Rep. Brenda Lawrence tapped her way through the game on her iPhone while Donald Trump was speaking about revamping America’s international trade posture.

New Jersey Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman was reading responses to her tweet about the president’s alleged ‘white nationalism’ while he talked.

And Ohio Rep. Joyce Beatty was inspecting a proposed press release reacting to the speech – while it was barely a third of the way through.

However, Beatty’s spokesperson said the SOTU transcript was released ahead of the speech and implied that she (Beatty) already read it, so paying attention wasn’t necessary.

‘That State of the Union is put out an hour in advance so Democrats and Republicans can read along,’ the spokesman said.

‘And while the speech was going on, she was putting together a statement in response.’

The other two congresswomen’s offices, however, didn’t offer any explanation.

Lawrence’s spokeswoman said she was ‘in an event’ and couldn’t be reached, and offered no explanation.

I mean, there’s really no way you can spin playing Candy Crush during the SOTU.

h/t Daily Mail