I don’t know if he can. It’s by invitation of the house.
Maybe the President Trump should answer back “you can just stay on vacation in P.R. Nancy if you are too afraid to be in DC without protection”
What if he gave a televised speech from the oval office on that evening?
What if he gets invited by the Senate instead? What's to stop McConnell from offering an invitation?
-PJ
I don’t know if he can. It’s by invitation of the house.
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If she is serious she should rescind the invitation already sent and then tell him no invite until shut down is over.
She does not want to do that so she is putting it on the President not to show up.
Actually he should do a Rally and do the state of the union at the rally.
It is also Constitutionally mandated
That’s a good point—I forgot that the President is there at the leisure of the House.
General Services Administration is an Executive Branch function, so Nancy Pelosi does not officially have authority over what happens in the Capitol Building.
As Speaker of the House, she could formally rescind her invitation - but all that would mean is that she (and the Democrat majority) would not be hosting the event. She has not done that, but if she did, many alternatives are possible. The minority leader could extend the invitation instead, and either host it in the same South wing chamber according to tradition, or perhaps out of respect for the majority, host it in a different chamber.
There is nothing in the constitution that says the House of Representatives needs to host a SOTU address, or that it is subject to an invitation from the Speaker. The Senate could host it, or the House Minority could host it. These formalities are governed by traditions, not laws.
I think the President should tell her he intends to go ahead with the address as planned, and politely ask that if the Democrats are not going to attend, would it be OK if he offered their seats to others to whom he might wish to extend a special invitation?
Let her stew on that...