Among the many company anticipated to attend President Donald Trump’s State of the Union Deal with Tuesday night are Hanan Lischinsky, the brother of the Israeli embassy staffer killed final summer time, and the Jewish Olympic hockey star brothers Jack and Quinn Hughes.
Trump’s deal with is predicted to tout the accomplishments of his second time period in what he has stated shall be a “lengthy speech” centering on the U.S. economic system. Within the decades-long historical past of the State of the Union deal with, it has turn into customary for the president and lawmakers to ask company who’ve private ties to outstanding political points.
This week, Home Speaker Mike Johnson introduced that he had invited a number of company to the deal with together with Hanan Lischinsky, the brother of Yaron Lischinsky, the Israeli embassy staffer who was shot and killed exterior of the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., final Could alongside together with his girlfriend and fellow embassy staffer Sarah Milgrim. (Milgrim was an American, whereas the Lischinskys are German-Israeli.)
“These two younger diplomats of the Israeli Embassy, dedicated to the reason for peace and to 1 one other, had their futures stolen in a violent act of antisemitism. Yaron’s brother, Hanan Lischinsky, has proven outstanding braveness in shedding gentle on the extremism that took his brother’s life,” Johnson stated in an announcement. “I’m honored to ask him as my visitor for President Trump’s State of the Union deal with.”
Trump additionally invited the U.S. males’s hockey group to attend the deal with throughout a name with the group shortly after their Sunday win over Canada on the Winter Olympics. The decision ignited a backlash when the group laughed as Trump stated, “We’re going to must carry the ladies’s group,” referring to the U.S. girls’s gold medal hockey group, joking that if he didn’t he “in all probability can be impeached.” The ladies’s group later declined the invitation.
Jack Hughes, who scored the game-winning aim on Sunday that earned the U.S. males’s group its first gold medal since 1980, in addition to his brother and U.S. teammate Quinn, each welcomed the invitation.
“We’re so proud to signify the U.S. and while you get the prospect to go to White Home and meet the President, we’re proud to be People and that’s so patriotic,” Jack Hughes advised the Day by day Mail. “It doesn’t matter what your views are, we’re tremendous excited to go to the White Home tomorrow and be part of that.”
Jack Hughes #86 and Quinn Hughes #43 of Staff United States have a good time successful the gold medals after the group’s 2-1 extra time victory within the Males’s Gold Medal match between Canada and the USA of the 2026 Winter Olympic video games in Milan, Feb. 22, 2026. (Gregory Shamus/Getty Photographs)
Florida Jewish Republican Rep. Randy Superb, who drew calls final week from Jewish officers for his censure or resignation after posting on X that “the selection between canine and Muslims will not be a tough one,” stated one in every of his company on the State of the Union shall be his father’s seeing-eye canine, Sadie.
“Sadie being with us permits my father to reside his life, and she or he has was a part of our household. Canine Make America Nice. I’ll combat like hell towards anybody who desires to take them away,” wrote Superb in a publish on X.
Different outstanding Jewish lawmakers have additionally introduced their invitees to the State of the Union, together with New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, who’s bringing Dani Bensky, a survivor of the late intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“I’m proud to carry Dani Bensky, New Yorker and survivor of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse, as my visitor to the State of the Union to demand the reality. Dani has turned unimaginable ache into unrelenting advocacy,” wrote Schumer in a publish on X. “Survivors deserve justice. Trump should finish the cover-up and launch the complete Epstein information—NOW.”
Sen. Jacky Rosen, a Nevada Jewish Democrat, introduced on Monday that she had invited Vania Carter-Strauss, a small enterprise proprietor and nurse practitioner, as her visitor to spotlight the impacts of the Trump administration’s cuts to Medicaid and tariffs.
“I’m so grateful to be joined by Vania on the State of the Union to spotlight the true affect of those merciless insurance policies, and I’ll proceed to talk out towards any actions that increase prices for hardworking Nevadans,” stated Rosen in an announcement.
Jewish Democratic Illinois Rep. Brad Schneider has additionally introduced his invitation to Rick Woldenberg, the CEO of Studying Sources who was a plaintiff within the Supreme Court docket case that ended final week in Trump’s tariffs being overturned.
“When dangerous insurance policies increase prices and damage American companies, patriotic People like Rick combat again,” stated Schneider in a publish on X.
