Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is reportedly slated to troll President Joe Biden during his State of the Union speech on Tuesday night using a balloon.
Video footage circulating on Twitter shows Greene carrying around a massive white balloon, an apparent reference to the Chinese spy balloon that was shot down on Saturday after floating across the United States for days.
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The Biden administration shot down the balloon Saturday when it reached the Atlantic Ocean after being spotted above Montana. The state is home to the Malmstrom Air Force Base, where Minuteman III nuclear missiles are kept.
Biden revealed that he personally asked the Pentagon to shoot down the balloon as soon as possible.
“I ordered the Pentagon to shoot it down, on Wednesday, as soon as possible,” President Joe Biden told reporters Saturday at a Maryland airport. “They decided — without doing any damage to anyone on — the ground. They decided that the best time to do that was when it got over water, outside — within our — within the 12-mile limit.”
“They successfully took it down. And I want to compliment our aviators who did it. And we’ll have more to report on this a little later,” Biden added.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin acknowledged receiving the order Wednesday but revealed the military decided to wait.
“On Wednesday, President Biden gave his authorization to take down the surveillance balloon as soon as the mission could be accomplished without undue risk to American lives under the balloon’s path,” Lloyd explained.
“After careful analysis, U.S. military commanders had determined downing the balloon while over land posed an undue risk to people across a wide area due to the size and altitude of the balloon and its surveillance payload.”
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