Speaker 1: So last night, stated the Union, Well, it went pretty
much exactly as I predicted. Trump Well, he delivered a
speech that was built on divisive rhetoric that literally sent
Republicans to their feet, as I talk about in my substack,
applause and ashes, literally as if they were propelled out
of their seat, right to their feet, while the Democrats
sat stoic or heckling. It was truly less about unity
and more about drawing battle lines, with Trump tacking through
the issues that he knows, he knows for a fact,
is going to dominate the run ups to the midterm.
Now the GOP, they know what's coming next and just
how much is on the line, Nagamike. He acknowledged that
if Democrats win in the midterms, which they are expected
to by a large margin at this moment, Trump's power
is in jeopardy. Play the clip.
Speaker 2: He needs all four years, not just two, to fix them.
And that's what we need. If we lost the mid terms,
heaven forbid, if we lost the majority in the House,
it would be the end of the Trump presidency in
a real effect. So we've got to keep this going,
and I think we're excited to put our candidates on
the field to explain all.
Speaker 3: This with the people.
Speaker 1: Look, as I write in my substack, applause and ashes
last night, stated the Union. It was not a speech.
It was a ross shack test. I mean, if you
were wearing a red tie and sitting on the right
side of the aisle, it was a triumphant, chest stumping
affirmation that America is roaring back under President Trump. But
if you were seated on the left, or one of
the nearly fifty Democrats that boycotted all together, that were
outside with midas touch, it was legitimately a five alarm
fire with sirens blaring and the Constitution smoldering. Senator Warnock, Well,
he had the same opinion from the Democratic side.
Speaker 4: Play the clip, Americans are literally being disappeared off of
those streets by mass men jumping out of unmarked cars.
Donald Trump knows that he is losing. We heard tonight
the rumblings of a desperate man who's trying to present
the best case he can for the midterms. It was
half lies, half grievances. He knows that he is quickly
losing power, and so a signature part of his plan,
as he expressed it tonight, was to try to find
some way to pass the so called Save Act. They
certainly aren't trying to save America. They're trying to save
their power at any calls.
Speaker 1: You know. Like I also write, you don't need to
be in that chamber to recognize the choreography. We've all
seen this act before, right, the rhythm of the applause lines,
the way that Trump bates a room, the way that
he turned silence into an accusation. This one hundred and
eight minute speech the longest right honern state of the
Union in history. This one had everything right. This one
was like a full theatrical movie or something. It had bravado,
It had grievance, it had selective math, it had red
meat theater. All right. But here's the funny thing for
the Republicans, Oh yeah, it worked. Maga pundits. They literally
tried to claim that this was his best speech ever polling. Well,
let's just say it shows something different. Let me show
you what it says in it. It turns around and
it shows twenty twenty six very positive reaction to Trump's speech.
And again this is amongst speech watchers thirty eight percent
last year by Biden twenty twenty five. Going back to
twenty seventeen Trump's first fifty seven percent and then twenty eighteen,
forty eight and fifty nine in twenty nineteen, certainly better
in terms of at least this poll number in the past. Now,
like I said earlier today, Trump speech writers, they should
actually learn to fact check. But we know that they
don't do that. They never would. Representative Jamie Redskin he
called Trump out for spewing lies for two hours and
for not offering any insight on his plan for the country,
the absolute purpose of what the state of the Union
is all about. Play the clip.
Speaker 3: I just couldn't take much more than forty five minutes.
It was a pack of lies. It was one lie
after another and then a series of provocations against the Democrats.
There was no policy content or program to it, which
makes sense because they have no program for America. Grocery
prices are increasing, energy prices are increasing, Housing is totally
out of control. They've got no plan for America, and
they just stand with the rich and the powerfully, as
we've seen through the Epstein tobacco, as we've seen through
the fact that they're unleashing ice to shoot American citizens
dead in the streets. Just for exercising our first Amendment. Right.
So anyway I went. I tried to be polite for
as long as I could, and then I decided I
was just gonna leaven, come out here and be with
my people and be with the Midas touch nations.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they certainly are. Meanwhile, despite the validity of
rescue and statement, Trump's pundits, well, they will always always
lie for him. They will exaggerate, they will distort the
facts Byron Donald's. Well he tried to. He tried this
nonsense on CNN, but John Berman, Nah, he wasn't having it.
He was actually quick finally with a fact check. Play
the clip.
Speaker 5: The previous economy under Joe Biden. We all know that
was a terrible economy for everybody.
Speaker 1: Everybody was suffering.
Speaker 6: You brought up GDP growth inflation. Inflation was higher, but
GDP growth was also higher during the Biden administration. That
certainly it was last quarter in the average of year
to year. But Congressman, I do want to ask you
about GDP growth. You can go jack GDP growth. I mean,
you can say what you want about inflation, but the
GDP is what the GDP was. Gb growth last quarter
was one point your sperience.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Again, no matter what you say to them, they
will turn around and they will come up with some
sort of as Kelly and Conwey used to call it, right,
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or wherever you get your podcasts now. Look, as we
all saw the heckling that took place in the chamber
last night, and by the way, I absolutely hate that.
I absolutely do. I don't care who the president is,
there's a certain respect to the person that's standing up there,
and for whatever, I hate it when they heckled Obama.
I hate it when they heckled Trump. I hate it
when they heckled Joe Biden. I just don't like it.
This isn't England, this isn't Parliament, right, And yes, I
understand why they're angry and so on. Nevertheless, I find
it disruptive. It took place in the chamber and Sean Duffy, well,
let's just say he had some choice words about the decorum.
Speaker 7: Play that clip, and Democrats in essence sat down for
all of them. You had a congress woman to leave
in omar. They were heckling the president through the whole speech.
I'm not sure if you could hear it, but it
was incredibly distracting. When someone yelled you lie at Barack Obama.
America lost its mind the whole speech. You had hecklers
of the president. I do even if you don't agree
with them, you should respect him enough to listen to
him and you talk about what happens in Congress. You
had the former speaker on and again, word it start.
When you have a speaker that stands behind the president
rips up a speech, where does the chorum come back?
And I'm looking at Democrats to go. You know, listen,
be an American applaud great issues the president raises, just
because you don't like him. Doesn't mean it can't be
an American issue that you support.
Speaker 8: Just in point of fact, I mean, I understand you're
saying that when President Obama said things you know you
would you would you would not sit in protest, even
when he was bringing up Americans who are heroic, et cetera.
I mean, President Trump did say during his speech about
all the Democrats, not just one congresswoman or another, but
all of them. He said, quote, these people are crazy.
I'm telling you they're crazy. I mean, but that's not
something we ever heard from Obama or Biden from that
that stage.
Speaker 7: We've had a speaker rip up a speech either.
Speaker 1: You see again, no matter what anybody says, there's always
a response back. But I'm a firm believer that silence,
and I write this in my sub stack today, silence
can be loud than applause. Now, I want you to
think about what you want. But throughout the years, people
from the opposite party, they've always heckled the president. And
like I said before, I don't like it, but people
have always heckled the president and Representative Sidney I'm Kalnger
Dove pointed out that real leadership is not measured by
applause from sycophants.
Speaker 9: Play that clip, But sadly, this is a kind of
courage that our president doesn't have. So as Donald Trump
delivers his address and sees Jenna, Lisa and her fellow
survivors in the audience, he will be reminded what true
leadership looks like. And it is not measured by applause
from sycophants. It is measure by whether or not you
stand by your word to fight against injustice, or whether
you want to shield the folks who should be held accountable.
Speaker 10: But enough about Trump. I'm so tired of talking about
this small man who is not worth any of our time,
because this People's State of the Union is not about him,
It's about us.
Speaker 1: Yes, she's right, But to his supporters, this was a
president projecting strength, a leader hammering home border control, economic stabilization,
cultural combat. But to his critics, it was grievance politics
dressed up his governance, hyperbole masquerading as hope now representative.
I'm kem Langerdove. She was there outside at the People's
State of the Union. That was a man that literally
amassed over two million views to this was, of course,
the mightas touch network counterprogram Jesse waters Well, he of
course tried to claim that no one was watching play
the clip.
Speaker 11: The chamber is starting to fill up, and the big
question tonight, what's it going to be like in there,
given the fact that a record setting seventy three congressional
Democrats have decided to bail on this speech tonight, they
won't be there, and a couple dozen of them having
a competing event over on the National Mall tonight. They're
dubbing the People's State of the Union. Jesse, we'll send
it back to you. And no one's watching that.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, no one's watching that. Yeah, not true, not true
at all. And at some event representative Jim Hines, he
pointed out what the split screen of tow events actually shows.
Play that clip.
Speaker 12: People worry about retiring, They worry about whether their kids
can afford a house, They are thinking about the grocery bill,
and the President is up there celebrating something that my
constituents don't feel. And so I wanted to be in
a place where people were serious about the cost of living,
about retiring with some dignity, about actually maybe something someday
being able to afford a home and you know, I
hope what America takes away from this split screen is
a billionaire who has enriched himself in office, his family
who have enriched himself in office, and the rest of
us who are saying we got to do something for
the rest of the American people who are really struggling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, America is struggling and for whatever reason.
You know, there are things that they could have should
have talked about, whether it's legitimate information or whether or
not this is potential policy that they This is supposed
to be again, as Jim Hyne says, it's supposed to
be about the people and where was supposed to be
looking forward to in the future now. Interestingly enough, John Fetterman,
he went on Fox News to celebrate that he was
the only Democrat to shake Trump's hand last night, played
that clip.
Speaker 13: Immigration and Enforcement and DHS funding. I saw an email
thread last night where you shook the president's hand. I
believe it was on the way in, and it suggested
that you were the only Democrat who did Is that true.
Speaker 5: I do believe that that's true. And now for me,
I'm not going to yell or do that again, regardless
who the president is that I think that's been lost
nowt here for a nation to do that. So for me, yes,
I shook his hand, of course he walked in and
I'm always going to do that for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah. As I say in my again, substack applause and ashes.
The one that's out right now a state of the Union.
It's supposed to reassure the nation, and last night, sadly
it confirmed what too many of us already fear. State
of our union depends entirely on where you're sitting, which
side of the aisle, and increasingly we're not even in
the same room, maybe not even in the same country.
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