WATCH: Laughing, Coughing After Trump’s Call To ‘Drain The Swamp’

President Donald Trump, flanked by Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., gestures on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, before his address to a joint session of Congress. (AP... President Donald Trump, flanked by Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., gestures on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, before his address to a joint session of Congress. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) MORE LESS

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:

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  1. Ryan seem’s to be smugly pleased with himself…

  2. Avatar for alana alana says:

    This Cheeto is all over the map!. It’s Christmas in Feb.
    This is a dr. feelgood speech, wonder who wrote it. who who who?

  3. How can you drain the swamp when most of the cabinet pics are unethical boobs.

  4. Avatar for pac pac says:

    He is such a smirker. I hate smirkers.

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