Washington Examiner senior writer Joe Concha called out Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) after his forceful removal at a Thursday Homeland Security press briefing as “performance art.”

“This is, Carly, basically a complete and total perfect microcosm of what we have seen from the Democratic Party over the last four months since Donald Trump took office; performance art,” Concha told Fox & Friends First host Carley Shimkus.

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“That is performance art! You cannot storm in like a maniac, like the senator did, into a press conference that the DHS secretary was holding, Kristi Noem, and expect to be above the law.”

Padilla wanted to be removed and placed in handcuffs, because the left wants to push a false narrative that President Donald Trump is punishing Democrat lawmakers, according to Concha.

“No, I’m sorry. We have heard that nobody is above the law, but Mr. Padilla thought he was,” he said.

If any Republican senator had taken similar action during former President Joe Biden’s administration and got arrested, the media would have cheered on their arrest, Concha said.

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“It’s so much false outrage, and it’s a whole bowl of wrong,” he said.

“Democrats want to create this narrative like they’re resisting, they’re fighting back, when, in fact, what was [Padilla] objecting to there exactly? That gangbangers and murderers, rapists, child molesters, are being removed form the country from ICE…Democrats are not doing a good job here.”