Matt Gaetz fears ‘raucous’ Republicans will make Joe Biden look ‘like a lion tamer’

President Joe Biden's could use the State of the Union Address to rebuke Republicans who have obstructed his agenda, and that makes Rep. Matt Gaetz scared, the Florida Republican admitted Thursday.

Gaetz appeared on Steve Bannon's show "War Room" before the national address to share his concerns that Biden might goad Republicans into heckling — and make himself look good in the process.

"Joe Biden is going to try to bait House Republicans into some sort of raucous exchange, right?" said Gaetz. "Remember that the State of the Union gives the president tremendous home-field advantage...you are the center of attention. The stagecraft is all about the president. They have a lot of flexibility regarding the duration of this experience, the pomp and circumstance. So he's going to blame us for the border."

Gaetz told Bannon he fears how his fellow Republicans will respond.

"My concern is that some of my colleagues are going to raucously exchange that baiting," said Gaetz. "And what that will do is make Joe Biden look vigorous where he otherwise wouldn't, okay?"

Gaetz argued Biden was not in a position to detail policy agenda because of larger concerns Americans have about the economy

"Millions of people are gonna watch this thing, and they're gonna say, is Joe Biden up to it?" Gaetz argued. "If we give him kind of a situation where he gets to look like a lion tamer, standing above a raucous crowd, then we're playing into his hand."

Gaetz then detailed the good behavior he said he'd promised his mom.

"I will be sitting quietly like a Southern gentleman," Gaetz said. "And I promised my mother I would not be texting too often."

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