Furious Gold Star father arrested at SOTU after derailing Biden's boast that America is safer: 'Remember Abbey Gate?!'

President Joe Biden elicited multiple heckles with his State of the Union address Thursday during which he angrily denigrated his political opponents, misstated Laken Riley's name, recycled campaign rhetoric, and vowed to ensure that women could nationally resume killing their unborn children.

One outburst from the gallery was not like the others.

Steve Nikoui, the father of fallen Marine Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui, absolutely lost it when the Democratic president dared to paint a rosy picture of the last three years.

After threatening to cut America's carbon "emissions in half by 2030," Biden broached the subject of safety and security, intimating the previous administration was accountable for the 2020 murder spike that coincided with the pandemic, the Black Lives Matter riots, and the Democrat-anointed defund-the-police movement.

"All Americans deserve the freedom to be safe, and America is safer today than when I took office," said Biden.

"Remember Abbey Gate?!" roared Nikoui.

The president's sentiment evidently did not sit right with the Gold Star father who was U.S. Rep. Brian Mast's (R-Fla.) guest at the State of the Union.

"United States Marines!" the bereaved father appeared to yell. "Kareem Nikoui!"

Following Nikoui's protest, he was briefly taken into custody.

A spokesman for the U.S. Capitol Police told Axios that "tonight at approximately 10:15 p.m., a man disrupted the State of the Union address by yelling."

"Our officers warned him to stop and when he did not, the man was removed from the House Galleries and was arrested," added the spokesman.

Nikoui was reportedly charged with a local misdemeanor of "crowding, obstructing or incommoding," then later cut loose.

Video shared on X by Matthew Foldi shows the Gold Star father embracing Mast after being released.

During the Biden administration's botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, an Islamic terrorist — who reportedly had been released amid the chaos just days earlier from the Parwan prison at Bagram Air Base — detonated a suicide bomb at Abbey Gate, the last route open for Afghans into the Hamid Karzai International Airport.

The ISIS-Korasan suicide bombing killed Nikoui's son along with 10 other Marines, a soldier, and a sailor: Marine Lance Cpl. David Lee Espinoza; Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee; Marine Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover; Army Staff Sgt. Ryan Knauss; Marine Cpl. Hunter Lopez; Marine Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum; Marine Lance Cpl. Dylan R. Merola; Marine Sgt. Johanny Rosariopichardo; Marine Cpl. Humberto Sanchez; Marine Lance Cpl. Jared Schmitz; Navy Hospitalman Maxton Soviak; and Marine Cpl. Daegan William-Tyeler Page.

The attack at Abbey Gate also wounded 45 other service members and killed at least 170 Afghan civilians.

In 2021, Steve Nikoui suggested to the Daily Beast that Biden bore some responsibility for his son's death: "Biden turned his back on him. That's it."

Rep. Mast said in a statement that by inviting Nikoui to the SOTU, he was "reminding President Biden of the damage he has done to national security and American families."

The Republican further stressed that "Lance Cpl. Nikoui was killed in action as a result of President Biden's disastrous decision making."

Mast elsewhere noted that "no Biden official has been dismissed or demoted as a result of the deadly and catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan."

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