Top 5 oddest moments from the State of the Union

President Joe Biden’s address to the nation Tuesday night was accompanied by the usual pomp, circumstance, and inevitable awkward moments.

From mispronunciations to unexpected outbursts and weird movements from high-profile spectators, here are the five weirdest moments from the State of the Union.

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1. Nancy Pelosi’s hand movements

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who sat behind the president throughout the speech, made some inexplicable hand motions. At one point, she rose while rubbing her fists together, a move that didn’t correspond to a round of applause.

2. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s Afghanistan outburst

Colorado Republican Lauren Boebert is known as one of the most outspoken members of Congress. She stayed true to that reputation when she heckled Biden about U.S. deaths during the Afghanistan withdrawal.

The president spoke about veterans suffering from “toxic burn pits” that can give them cancers that would “put them in a flag-draped coffin.”

Boebert loudly interjected, “You put them in, 13 of them,” apparently referencing the 13 service members killed in a blast at the Kabul airport during the Afghanistan evacuation.

The Republican firebrand could face reprimand for her actions. However, she said on Twitter she doesn’t regret the outburst because she was speaking for the families of the men who were killed.

“The left is pissed because I called out Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan that left 13 of America’s finest in a flag-draped coffin,” she said. “They are mad because a speech was ‘interrupted.’ Ask the families who lost their loved ones how interrupted their lives are now.”

3. Biden says “Iranian” instead of “Ukrainian,” Kamala Harris mouths correction

During the part of his speech focusing on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Biden slipped up and said “Iranian” instead of “Ukrainian.”

“Putin may circle Kyiv with tanks, but he’ll never gain the hearts and souls of the Iranian people,” Biden said.

Vice President Kamala Harris appeared to mouth the correct nationality behind him.

4. Chuck Schumer’s false start

New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer conspicuously got up to clap at the wrong time.

He wanted to show support for Biden’s statement about the American Rescue Plan, a COVID-19 relief bill Schumer also supported. The Senate majority leader was a bit too enthusiastic and stood up a few seconds before Biden finished saying that “the American Rescue Plan helped working people and left no one behind.”

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5. “Go get ’em.”

Biden ended the State of the Union with a folksy encouragement to the American people to “go get ’em.”

Reactions to the phrase were mixed, with some understanding it as an encouraging sign-off and others reading it as confusing.

“What does ‘go get him’ mean? Sincere question,” Dispatch editor Jonah Goldberg asked on Twitter.

Former NBC correspondent Luke Russert explained the phrase is a “Rust Belt Irish Catholic kind of way of saying, ‘Give ‘em hell!’ It’s not meant to go after Putin, it’s more of a ‘Let’s go forward, try hard and win America!'”