Missouri Senator Josh Hawley

Doing the bidding of his globalist masters.

Missouri is widely known as the “Show-me State” by locals and outsiders. The people of Missouri are not easily persuaded by words alone and prefer proof or demonstration before accepting the fancy talk or claims of others.

This past week Senator Josh Hawley showed Missourians where is real allegiance lies. It’s definitely not with President Trump! It’s with his RINO Senate overlords.

On Tuesday, May 26th, the day after Memorial Day, Josh Hawley presided over a brief pro forma Senate session. The procedural move of gaveling in session the Senate and then quickly gaveling out the session prevents President Trump from making recess appointments.

Josh Hawley does not trust the president or his voters.

Josh knows better.

He is the latest snake to show his true colors.

Unfortunately, this stunt by Hawley to impress John Thune and Mitch McConnell did not gain much media attention.

That’s why we are reporting this here at The Gateway Pundit today.

Shame on you, Josh Hawley!

X user Grace Gossett said it best:

Dear Senator Hawley,

You have betrayed us……
We thought for sure you were going to help us drain the swamp and carry out the mandates we brought forth when electing Trump.

On Memorial Day 2026, while the rest of America paused to honor the fallen who died defending our freedoms, you chose to gavel in a meaningless pro forma Senate session and then gavel it right back out. A 30 second ritual that accomplished exactly nothing except one thing: deliberately blocking President Trump from making a single recess appointment.

You personally stood in the way of the American people’s mandate.

We voted. We won. We gave President Trump the White House, we gave Republicans the Senate, and we sent a clear message……drain the swamp, confirm the loyalists, and move at warp speed to repair what the last four years destroyed.

Instead, you and the rest of the Senate club decided the dusty old rulebook matters more than the will of the voters who handed you the majority.

By keeping the Senate “technically in session” through sham pro forma meetings, you stripped the President of a constitutional tool specifically designed to bypass obstruction like this.

Do you understand what that means, Senator?

It means qualified America First nominees, judges, ambassadors, agency heads, and military leaders remain stuck in limbo while the same entrenched bureaucrats who sabotaged Trump the first time continue holding power. It means the deep state gets more time to resist, delay, leak, obstruct, and laugh at the voters who believed change was finally coming.

It means Americans are once again being told their landslide victory was meaningless because the Senate has “traditions.”

You ran on fighting the swamp. You wrote books about it. You raised your fist outside the Capitol with the rest of us.

Now you’re the one holding the gavel that keeps the swamp alive.

We are not disappointed, Senator Hawley.

We are furious.

You didn’t have to take that presiding slot. You didn’t have to participate in the ritual protecting the establishment from the very change Americans demanded. But you did.

Every day those positions remain unfilled is another day the agenda Americans voted for is delayed.

This is not “procedure.”

This is betrayal dressed up in a suit and tie.

The swamp does not drain itself. It requires leaders willing to confront a broken system instead of protecting it under the banner of “tradition.” Right now, you are choosing the institution over the people who elected you.

We expected better from you.

We still want to believe you are not just another suit who talks tough on Fox News and then folds the moment Senate leadership whispers “tradition.”

Prove us wrong.

Demand these pro forma charades end immediately. Demand recess appointments be allowed so President Trump can govern at the speed this moment requires. Stand in that chamber and publicly call out the hypocrisy.

Because if you don’t, the answer to the question “What did Josh Hawley do on Memorial Day 2026?” will be simple:

He helped keep the swamp alive.

We’re watching.

We’re angry.

And we will remember.

Sincerely,

We the Disappointed, Disgusted, and Determined Trump Voters”
The American Majority You Were Elected to Serve

Dear Senator Hawley,

You have betrayed us……
We thought for sure you were going to help us drain the swamp and carry out the mandates we brought forth when electing Trump.

On Memorial Day 2026, while the rest of America paused to honor the fallen who died defending our… https://t.co/PLdrVhKkBW

— Brooke Gossett (@luvgod) May 26, 2026

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