Speaker 1: So you sat down last night ready to watch the
Survivor finale, excited, literally excited to unplug from the craziness
of our country, and an hour in. An hour into
the show, the show gets interrupted by none other than
the one man that we're all trying to forget about.
Trump interrupted usual programming to give an eighteen minute nonsensical
speech blaming Democrats for all of his failures, lying literally
lying about economic numbers, and attacking, of course, immigrants. Well,
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So last night Trump gave this presidential address that could
literally have been a three AM all caps truth social rant.
Trump finally got both parties to agree at least on something.
Let me show you what I'm talking about. Total shit.
Liberals and conservatives yawned together over Trump's pointless prime time speech. Yeah,
there's no other way to describe it. In fact, I'm
going to talk about it my substack of this morning,
which I entitled stop Yelling at Us. It was like
a child temper tantrum, right that we all become hostage.
This is like a hostage video where there's no place
to go, because every single news station was carrying this nonsense. Now,
I do want to show you a few reactions to
his speech, and then I want to show you the
actual insanity that he spewed. And in Navarro Well, she said,
it sounded like an angry old man shouting from the hills.
Play the clips.
Speaker 2: You did not want speech. How I blame you for
not watching the speech, because unless you're getting paid to
watch it like we are, there is no reason why
anybody should have wasted eighteen minutes of their lives that
they're not going to get back. It was an angry
old man shouting from the hills, shouting at the kids
to get off their lawn. It felt like when you're
watching that Charlie Brown cartoon and the speeches.
Speaker 1: No, no, it wasn't wlah blah blah. As I wrote
in my sub stacks, stop yelling at us, because that's
what I felt like when I was watching it. I've
seen Trump lie in private, I've seen him lie in public.
I've seen him lie under oath, and I've seen him
lie with such confidence that he almost convinces himself. But
last night's eighteen minute White House address, it wasn't just
a lie. It was a tantrum with a teleprompter, a
grievance sermon delivered at warp speed, yelled, yelled at the
American people as if your bank account personally insulted him.
My friends, this was not a presidential address. It was
a hostage video starring facts that were bound, gagged and
shoved into the trunk of a golf cart. Now, on
the other hand, folks like Nuke Gingrich. He comes out
and he says Trump's speech left Democrats unnerved.
Speaker 3: Play the clip, and I believe President Trump showed tonight
that he's prepared to focus, to be disciplined, to communicate,
And if I were a Democrat, tonight would leave me
very unnerved.
Speaker 1: Now not unnerved, as I continued to say, my substacked.
Presidents usually go prime time when something really big happens,
like war or peace or a dead terrorist. Right, Trump
literally went primetime yesterday because his poll numbers are underwater
and sinking. Poll numbers sixty percent of Americans disapprove of
how he is handling the economy. My friends, that's not
a rounding era. That is a flashing red siren screaming,
we don't believe what you're saying. And so he goes
to Prime Time and he yells at us louder mind you,
Sean Hannity, He goes on and claims that Joe Biden
could have never been able to give that speech. Thank god,
play the clip.
Speaker 4: I gotta tell you, I don't think Joe Biden would
be capable of that speech.
Speaker 1: Your thoughts, Well, it was after his bedtime, so one
hundred percent he wouldn't have been capable of this speech.
But meanwhile, in the speech last night, shawing and cackling,
Joe over there, he rattled off prices went right to eggs, Turkey,
airline tickets like a man speed reading a grocery receipt
that he found in the parking lot. He literally went
out there and claimed that costs are coming down very fast,
which is a both thing to say when Americans are
actually still choosing between rent and electricity. Like it's some
I don't know, freaking game show called Who Wants to
Stay Housed? You see, here's the thing that Trump never understands.
You cannot guesslight a debit card. Now, I do want
to get into Trump's actual speech, because I'm giving you
reference to it. He started off strong. No, remember it's
eighteen minutes. Starts off strong, saying that he inherited a mess.
Speaker 4: Play the clip, Good Evening, American eleven months ago. I
inherited a mess, and I'm fixing it. When I took office,
inflation was the worst in forty eight years, and some
would say in the history of our country.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me go on to say that number one,
he did not. But I want to show you a
post about the mess that he's talking about that he inherited.
In it shows you Joe Biden had forty eight consecutive
months of job growth. Let me say that again because
I think it's gets lost. Biden had forty eight. That's
four years of consecutive months of job growth. Biden handed
Trump the strongest economy in the world. Under Trump, we
have now lost jobs three of the last six months.
According to sm Trump is incompetent. Mar A Lago Good Wednesday.
All right, let me be very clear. When he turns
around and he claims that he inherited a mess. I
don't know, forty eight straight months of job growth doesn't
sound like a mess to me. He then, of course
recited his usual inflated number of investments that he has
now brought into the country. Played the clip, Eddie.
Speaker 4: I've secured a record breaking eighteen trillion dollars of investment
into the United States, which means jobs, wage increases, growth,
factory openings, and far greater national security.
Speaker 1: Yeah. He then of course goes on and he can't
stop because that's his favorite word, talks about his favorite word, tariffs.
Play that clip.
Speaker 4: Much of this success has been accomplished by tariffs, my
favorite word, tariffs, which for many decades have been used
successfully by other countries against us, but not anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me go on to say the following Americans
aren't stupid. We know whether our lives are more affordable.
In fact, what prompted this. According to an NPR PBS
Maris poll, sixty one percent say that the economy it's
not working for them personally. Seventy percent of all of
Americans say that the cost of living is flat out unaffordable.
Seventy percent that's not Biden's mess. My friend, that is
a Trump reality check. Trump thing goes on and announces
some facoc the new Warrior dividend check reminder that he's
actually not the one paying for them. We are, Americans
are paying for them through the tariffs. I will say
it as I always do. Tariffs are taxes, and consumers
pay tariffs, meaning it's our money. Play the clip.
Speaker 4: Because of tariffs. Along with the just pasted one big
beautiful bill. Tonight, I am also proud to announce that
more than one thousand, four hundred fifty thousand, Think of this,
one million, four hundred and fifty thousand military service members
will receive a special we call Warrior dividend before Christmas,
a Warrior dividend in honor of our nations founding in
seventeen seventy six. We are sending every soldier one thousand
and seven hundred and seventy six dollars. Think of that,
and the checks are already on the way. Nobody understood
that one until about thirty minutes ago. We made a
lot more money than anybody thought because of tariffs, and
the bill helped us along. Nobody deserves it more than
our military, and I say congratulations, everybody.
Speaker 1: And by the way, yeah, I mean turn around and
talk about that piece to the resistance. Right, the so
called seventeen seventy six Warrior dividend checks are already on
the way right, paid for, of course, by tariffs that
magically raised a lot of money that anyone that literally
no one thought right, nobody understood it until what he
say thirty minutes ago, which by the way, should have
been the very first red flag for all of us,
because when Trump says nobody understood, what he really means
is that nobody asked questions to something that is just
completely untrue. Trump then, of course, spent of this eighteen
minute tantrum, he spent too much time attacking Democrats, literally
lying and saying that we Democrats are the ones who
want to increase healthcare premiums. Play that clip.
Speaker 4: And you see that now in the steep increase in
premiums being demanded by the Democrats, and they are demanding
those increases and it's their fault. It is not the
Republican's fault. It's the Democrat's fault.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, it's not all right. In fact, it's Mega
Mike Johnson who actually now turns out he's not taking
the ACA vote to the floor until they get back
after New Year's He then went on and claimed that
our country has been laughed at in the past, but
not anymore. Not under President Donald J. Trump. There shall
be no laughing at America. Play the clip.
Speaker 4: We had the worst trade deals ever made, and our
country was laughed at from all over the world. But
they're not laughing anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course they're not laughing anymore. He continues by
saying that next year, it's always someplay in the future.
Next year, the world will look at America and they
will respect us. How Come I always thought that Trump said,
we're the most respected country in the world. Right now,
play the clip.
Speaker 4: There could be no more fitting tribute to this epic
milestone than to complete the comeback of America that began
just one year ago. When the world looks at us
next year, let them see a nation that is loyal
to its citizens, faithful to its work, is confident to
its identity, certain to its destiny, and the envy of
the entire globe. We are respected again like we have
never been respected before. To each and every one of you,
have a merry Christmas and a happy New year, God
bless you all.
Speaker 1: And finally, with all of this talk about the worldview,
he also went on a rant about immigrants play that
clip in.
Speaker 4: Driving up housing costs was the colossal border invasion. We
have never been invaded. This is the worst thing that Frankly,
in my opinion, the worst thing that the Biden administration
did to our country is the invasion at the border.
The last administration and their allies in Congress brought in
millions and millions of migrants and gave them taxpayer funded housing.
While your rent and housing costs kyrocketed. Over sixty percent
of growth in the rental market came from foreign migrants.
At the same time, illegal aliens stall American jobs and
flooded emergency rooms, getting free health care and education paid
for by you, the American taxpayer. They also increased the
cost of law enforcement by numbers so high that they
are not even to be mentioned. For the first time
in fifty years, we are now seeing reverse migration as
migrants go back home, leaving more housing and more jobs
for Americans. In the year before my election, all net
creation of jobs was going to foreign migrants. Since I
took office, one hundred percent of all net job creation
has gone to American born citizens one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: Yeah again, eighteen minutes, no new ideas, no real solutions,
just grievance, garbage, and a diet coke chaser. Literally, eighteen
minutes of our time stolen from us, followed stupidly by
a full news cycle laundering this bullshit as leadership. Don't
take Trump's word for any of this. Don't or more importantly,
for anything that was said during that wasted speech. You
know what you believe. Believe you because it's you wallet
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