LIVE: State of the Union Coverage From the Bulwark (W/ Pete Buttigieg)

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The whole thing. We have rumors that Donald Trump will speak for potentially over two hours tonight. Tim promised he's going to be sitting there doing facial expressions the entire time. Just wants you to watch him watch Trump. As you can tell, we are waiting for the president to deliver his first official State of the Union of his second term. he did a speech last year, it wasn't technically the State of the Union address. We will be here to watch it, but then we're going to be jumping back on when it is over to analyze it. Andrew will be there. Tim will be there. Sarah Longwell will be there. We have a surprise guest. Not much of a surprise as you've announced it. Pete Buttigieg will join us at some point tonight to talk about the whole shebang. We're going to cover Abigail Spanberger's response to Trump. It's going to be an exceedingly late night. I need some caffeine probably to make it through it. Andrew, what are your thoughts, your fears, your hopes, your expectations, your dreads heading into this evening? Yeah. So just to take the 10,000 foot view for a minute, wind back the clock one year to Trump's first address of his second term, the one that was not technically a state of the union, like an hour and 40 minutes that time, completely different universe from the one we are in right now. When Trump made that speech, looking back now, you could kind of see him as sort of at the height of his perceived powers of his second term, you know, at least so far. He was just, Doge was just running rampant all over everything. You know, he was, he was, he had all of the institutions on the run. He had the, you know, the law firms and the colleges and all of sort of white collar world was just like, oh gosh, he's just going to come smush us if we don't get in line. So we're going to get in line. I mean, like it all really looked like he had just come in, with a ferocity and he was prepared and he was going to, you know, make the world bend itself into his image. I mean, that could not be further from the world that we are in now. He has not stopped trying to do a lot of these things. He's tried to do a lot more things. You know, he's ratcheted up all sorts of different powers or tried to do so in all kinds of ways. But in terms of the political environment, I mean, he is far, far weaker than he was a year ago. You know, he's collapsed in terms of his public polling across basically every single issue set. You know, he is coming off of pretty is sort of the weirdest week for him to have to do this because he is just several days away removed from the Supreme Court, knocking the legs out from under his signature economic policy. They will be there. They will be there, right? They're going to be there. So so so it's weird. I mean, like he just got crushed in a bunch of off cycle elections back in November. So this is very much a Trump who's like needing to like try to recapture some mojo. You know, there's more people tuning in than there are typically tuning in even to him on a night like this. He needs to somehow reverse the losses that he is suffering across basically every important issue set, across immigration, across the economy, across, you know, foreign policy and all of these different things. But he does not have like a good issue to pivot to right now. He's basically at break even or worse on everything. So we'll see. We'll see what the big guy can manage to cook up tonight. I guess three hours of yapping ought to do it. You know, if he stands up for three hours. I was going to say, yeah. If he's going to go for three hours, he's going to touch on a lot of stuff. Let me just quickly do a quick catch-up and apology. If folks are joining us from Substack looking for the live feed on Substack, just want you to know a little technical difficulties on our live stream there. We're getting it fixed. Thank you for joining us here. But rest assured, we are making sure that people want to get this on Substack can get this on Substack. Also, Tim Miller is coming. Don't worry. It's not just me and Andrew. You can hold steady. Now, to your point about Trump, it is a weird moment. I think a normal president would try to do some sort of pivot, right? You would say something like, you know, we heard we heard the voters pains or we heard the voters feedback. or we recognize that not everyone is like satisfied with the progress that we've done on the economy or there's more work to do. That would be something that no president would say. Trump does not have that in his arsenal. The expectation is he's going to come in and just basically be like, I've solved all the world's problems. We are in the golden age. Everything is fantastic. You should be incredibly grateful for my leadership. And, you know, I'm not sure how that plays, right? Like there's this old adage that you don't want to seem out of touch with voters by telling them that they should be grateful for how good things are when they don't feel it. But Trump doesn't have the ability to acknowledge that anything is other than spectacular. So how does he do it? Yeah. And on one level, that's just sort of like a personal failing that he has had all along. You know, it's just part of his makeup. That's not the way he talks. It is also increasingly a part of sort of his information ecosystem as the president of the United States, as a person who is sort of surrounded by yes-men and sycophants and good news guys at all times, who also, by the way, has a deep distrust for basically any source of bad news that might break through his bubble for polls and for, you know, news reports and all these sorts of things. So it's not even clear how much the president himself actually believes he's in trouble right now. But, you know, we're already a few months removed from the sort of scuttlebutt being that White House aides were starting to kind of gently try to wake Trump up to the fact that, for instance, he had a real affordability problem on his hands. Like even ahead of the November elections, that was already starting to be a concern. And Trump was sort of begrudgingly going out on the campaign trail and talking about affordability more. And I remember we wrote in Morning Shots right after like the week of those off-cycle elections in early November, Like Trump and the Trump people just got shellacked in these midterms or in these off cycle elections. There's a year to go to the midterms. Will there be some kind of real pivot here? And what have we seen since then? We have seen no pivot of any kind. We have seen doubling down on the worst instincts again and again. I mean, that was all prior to Minneapolis. That was prior to, you know, ice getting surged into the streets there, killing a couple of civilians, roughing up a bunch of protesters. just, you know, every all of the stuff that we saw and continue to see in that city. And we're already what now, I guess, close to three months on from then. We're already a quarter of the way of the year until the midterms from those last off year elections. We still haven't seen the pivot. We still have not seen his numbers stabilize. They're worse today than they were in November. So this is a really bleak moment politically for the president. Not so much for us. We kind of like it. in some respects. But, I mean, it's bleak for all the reasons that they're still in power and all the horrible things. We are not the story, Andrew. Let me catch people up a little bit just so they know what they're seeing. This is the house. That's the president's box. And I believe we're looking at the president's family. This is the floor where all the lawmakers are. A couple of little interesting tidbits that we've gotten from both our reporter on the ground, Joe Perdicone, and others who are there. Joe Perdicone wrote in to say that Thomas Matzzi, the congressman who is arguably the biggest learning from side effectuated the release of the Epstein files. He is holding a seat apparently on the aisle so that he can shake Trump's hand or something. He's been alternating that seat with Ro Khanna, his collaborator on the Epstein file legislation. So we're going to take a look for that. We're also going to look for Tim Miller, who has now joined us in a jumpsuit. hydrated, rested, waiting to watch 200 jumpsuits. I'm just off of basketball coaching. High scoring match, 2-2. So hopefully we will see a little more fireworks tonight from the Democrats in the crowd than I saw in the basketball court. But I'll take a tie. It was a good defensive effort by the Honey Badgers. I'm happy to be here with you guys. I'm just getting caught up. As Trump comes in here soon, I am super chats from people, so you can go ahead and super chat us. And then I'm going to punish myself. Right now I'm just on water. That might change after a little bit. And I'll sit here and, you know, maybe talk a little bit while Trump talks and make fun of him a little bit or just make faces or just hang out with you guys. Look at Barron. We got Barron there. He's looking particularly tall. Barron is talking to use Tim on the court tonight. Yeah, maybe he was guarding the hoop for one of the teams. I've quite appreciated how much taller Barron is than the other I always knew he was tall but that much taller than the other two adult Trump sons he is a beast quick shout out to our Substack followers we have fixed the stream wanted to send another apology for the early technical difficulties Trespass you didn't miss anything it was some bland commentary from me and Andrew I heard Andrew I thought Andrew was fine Donald Trump is struggling Speaking of heights You can't see him because he's small Marco Rubio, he's kind of hard to see Because he's smaller than Baron But he's walking through the aisle there Not the best shot, there's Scott Bessant The cabinet's coming in Do you think Scott Bessant stuffs his chest? Do you think that Kind of how teen girls used to I feel like there's maybe something in there He always is protruding From the middle in a way that feels unnatural He's got an interesting gait I'll give you that He walks like a man very confident in himself. Well, that's interesting. Tim, what are you expecting for tonight? How are you going to make it through the two hours? Here's what I'm expecting. I'm expecting that it's going to be long and pointless. So this isn't what you're supposed to say at the top of a stream like this. You know, if you're over there, if you're multi-screening and you're watching CNN, you probably have some serious people talking about what the president needs to do tonight to improve his flagging poll numbers. There's nothing he can fucking do to improve his flagging poll numbers tonight. There's nothing he can do. It's possible that he could announce a war with Iran or something and make things worse. I don't expect that he'll do that. I expect that he'll do a very long, boring, laundry list speech. He'll be a couple times where he's surprised to see what is on his teleprompter. We'll do the thing where he's like, did we do that? We did Trump Rx. We achieved that much. And he'll give running commentary with his own speechwriters. and then at the end we're going to leave more tired with him about in the same political space. I agree with you and here's the reason. We know this. It's factual. It's because if people don't remember this, Joe Biden resuscitated his entire political trajectory apparently with his State of the Union address the last one he gave. If you remember that he was back. Everyone was so excited about Biden proving that the haters wrong, and then a couple months later he had the debate. I don't want to open up Wednesday. And I'm not sure that was ever real. I mean, I kind of think that was like a thing that sort of like the Beltway people talked themselves into. Can we do this, actually? This is meaningful. I need to correct myself, because I believe it was on the next level I said that the last State of the Union that was meaningful was back during Axis of Evil Days with W. And that was wrong, Sam. You're right. to Biden. Biden being vigorous, stalled the talk that he needed to set the side. In a lot of ways, it was kind of like a false... I agree with Andrew. I don't think it changed very many regular people's views. I think what it did is it changed the narrative inside the beltways. It changed the narrative inside the beltway. Some of his supporters who maybe secretly inside were thinking, I don't know if he's up for this, were buoyed by it. So it did have that impact. I don't expect that from the current president tonight, but that is fair. What do you expect from the Democrats tonight? What would you cringe at if they did? Look, who was it? Was it Al Green? Al Green is the musician. Is that also the congressman's name? Yes, it's the congressman. Yeah. I was like one of the only people who liked that. I'm sure Andrew, who is more buttoned up, more norms abiding, did not like it when Al Green shouted at him. I liked it. I think it's a... If I was in there, I would shout at him. You know who loved him? Bill Crystal loved him. Bill Crystal loved him. Bill Crystal was the strongest supporter of it. I would shout at him. I mean, he is a criminal president who is overseeing a criminal regime of secret police terrorizing the country, so he deserves to be yelled at, I would say. So I wouldn't cringe at that. What I would cringe at, I guess, is that the Democrats did something very corny. You know, like they all carried a sign. It's like they all stood up with a sign that was like, persist, resist. Don't be corny. If you're going to do it, make them throw you out of the hall, I guess would be my two. What about you, Andrew? Oh, I just have, this hardly even matters. The president is going to announce his support to block private equity from buying houses, and I think Democrats will be like, no, we want to do that, and everybody's going to fight over who gets to actually be the one who gets to own this totally pointless policy that everybody seems to love for no reason just because it's a meme. But I don't know. That doesn't really matter. That's just the B I have in my bonnet about it. We've got a couple of super chats coming through. Let's go for it. Matthew Stivers, 4915, asks if Sarah is joining tonight. She is, and I don't know if I'm supposed to say this, but whatever. No, we said it. We said it. We said it. It's her wife's birthday? You said that? No, we didn't say that. It's her wife's birthday. they're having dinner tonight and so we thought that she was going to have the night off but Sarah I think is kind of maybe going to wait for her to fall asleep. I don't know exactly what happens about lesbian birthday dinners but Sarah is going to make it anyway and so we appreciate her. Michael Nicholson 78 asked the boldest prediction for something unexpected. Andrew do you have an unexpected prediction? Oh come back to me I hadn't thought about it and seen the super chat. While you think about that I'm going to answer this one A. Monroe said that their guacaboli broke. That's an inside deep cut. He wants a replacement. At the Jeb campaign, we sold Jeb branded guacabolis. They were widely mocked on the internet. Hold on. How did you not win? How did we win? Well, that's a long story. We could probably do a candidate confessional on that if you want. Fair enough. Do we have any bold predictions? Nothing? No bold predictions from either of you? No. War with Iran announced at the State of the Union tonight. All right, let's do another game. Let's do another game. I'm going to read you the – so the big scuttle is that this is going to be an exceptionally long speech. His last speech was – the last State of the Union 2020 was one hour 18 minutes. The longest State of the Union gave was one hour 22 minutes. He did speak for one hour and 39 minutes last joint session, which was last year. The longest State of the Union is an hour 28 minutes. I'm going to set the over-under at one hour and 45 minutes. Over. Over. Ooh, jeez. Okay, I'm going to set the over-under at two hours and ten minutes. Can't move the over-under? That is a better over-under, though. 210 is a tough one. What, you're going under on 210? I don't know. That's a good one. I'm going over. I think he's going to roll in around two hours and 22 minutes. I'll take the under also. That is such an astonishingly long amount of time. I don't know. What would you even talk about? I mean, what is there to say? He can talk about anything for an instant. They did the 365 days of accomplishments. Isn't he just going to do that again? I assume. You factor in all the applause. Here's a bold prediction. Does he admonish the Supreme Court justices to their face? Mr. Speaker, the President of the United States. All right. All right, here's the deal. We're going to do our last thoughts. Then we're going to shut up. Tim's going to stay here, and we're going to have Tim watch Trump for maybe two hours and 15 minutes. No one is going to come back on. Like, if I start to get a little tired, I need to get a little tea. I need to, like, freshen up a little bit. Yeah, I had a tea before the basketball game. It was pretty hot. Yeah, so, okay, well, it's just. I want to see if he shakes Tom Massey's hand. All right, let's look for this. Tom's been waiting. He's apparently been waiting. They're on the Supreme Court. Aren't they on the aisle? They are on the aisle. We've got to wait. We've got to see. John Barrasso right there. He always gets me. John's doing the same skin tone as Donald Trump now. It's got to be one of the weirdest things of our politics. The set of majority leaders are like, oh, you're going to be a burnt sienna? I guess I'll match you. The other guys, they just do the same long red tie. But I'm going to also do the same skin tone. It's an interesting choice. It's a little humiliating. It's the male version of the Mar-a-Lago look. There we go. All right. Who do we got there? Tom Evers. You are right. He's looking very tan. Emmer. You're right. Dune is looking particularly tan. Not a lot of women or, I know that Woke 1.0 is over, but not a lot of women or people of color. Well, I guess there's the burnt sienna. Who's in the red hat? What jabroni is that? I don't know. We need Joe Burdick on here for some of the deep-cut Congress people. I'm not sure I know the whole back bench of the house Is Tony Gonzalez in the house? Do you know? Oh man The Tony Gonzalez thing is wild It shows out at crazy times that I didn't get it into either podcast today so just for one second we should talk about it for people who don't know This is a guy who was cheating on his life with his staffer Tales all the time in Washington really Oh Al Green, Al Green's got a sign there What does he got? What does it say? He's holding the sign. What does it say? We've got to find out. I hope it's... He's texting his staffer gross texts including things such as anal question mark. The staffer ends up lighting themselves on fire, literally, killing themselves committing suicide, the one that he was having an affair with. Usually this would cause a congressman to resign. Even Lauren Boebert has called for him to resign. but if the Republicans lose a single other person right now then Thomas Massey controls the House floor because that is how small their majority is so the Republicans are forced to circle the wagons around the guy that cheated on his wife with a staffer and we can't do ipso facto but the staffer ended up lighting themselves on fire just a quick note, Al Green's sign was black people are not apes true we did a video on that I like that I agree with that and didn't see Trump to react shouting out the truth social meme post that Trump made if people missed it Scalise ripped it from him so he already has some potential we got a little drama just wait for tomorrow's woke Bill Kristol morning shots on Al Green 2.0 We totally missed that, by the way, him going through shaking hands with the Supreme Court. I missed that. What did he do? We got to get out of here quickly. Uneventful. Uneventful? Okay. All right, Timmy, I'm going to sign out. Andrew's going to sign out. Buddy, I'm rooting for you. I'm worried about you. Give me a holler if you need anything. All right, everybody. I need your help with the content, people. You can get out of here. People of the YouTube feed, send us... Remembered chats? Where did I go? there I am. I will be answering those until the speech starts. Once the speech starts, my plan is to occasionally interject some thoughts. Now, sometimes folks on YouTube don't like that because they want to hear every word of Donald Trump. I find that hard to believe on the Bullwark YouTube feed, but if you're mad at me, you think I'm talking too much, please feel free to comment. We'll keep an eye on that. And, you know, just having me throw spitballs at them seems like better than the alternative for me, but to each their own. A couple super chats. We've got one. I've had a couple people mention these candidates. It'll be Annie Andrews in South Carolina Senate race and Hallie Schoffer in Arkansas. I hope I got that name right, S-C-H-O-F-F-E-R. Shout out to, we like shouting out good Democratic candidates. Also, please consider pushing to host a Dem primary debate in 28. I would like to do that. I would like to do that. I'm trying to steer clear a little bit of the 26 primaries, but 28, we'll put an award with Ken Martin. Members of Congress, I have the high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you the President of the United States. That was a little faster than usual. the weird shoulder pivots. It's deeply unnatural. I don't know where he learned that. A USA chance? Okay. I will shout out ROTW22. His father just got out of the hospital. Please give a shout out to Rich, our newest fan. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you, Rich. I like you more than Donald Trump. An honor. Starting a business can be overwhelming. You're juggling multiple roles. designer, marketer, logistics manager, all while bringing your vision to life. Shopify helps millions of business sell online. Build fast with templates and AI descriptions and photos, inventory and shipping. Sign up for your one euro per month trial and start selling today at Shopify.nl. That's Shopify.nl. It's time to see what you can accomplish with Shopify by your side. Speaker Johnson, Vice President Vance, First Lady of the United States. Oh, boy. This is going to be long. I hadn't considered how much of J.D. Vance's face I'm going to have to look at tonight until right now. The recessed side profile. Second lady of the United States. Any real ones, long-time Bullard people know, I am not in the Save Usha, Save Melania camp. I feel like Usha and Melania are very excited and on board with the whole agenda. Members of Congress and my fellow Americans, Our nation is back, bigger, better, richer, and stronger than ever before. What's happening with his jaw there? He's trying to show, I don't, we might have a dentures issue. That's something to monitor. We might have a dentures issue. Less than five months from now, our country will celebrate an epic milestone in American history. the 250th anniversary of our glorious American independence. This July 4th, we will mark two and a half centuries of liberty and triumph, progress and freedom in the most incredible and exceptional nation ever to exist on the face of the earth. And you've seen nothing yet. We're going to do better and better and better. This is the golden age of America. When I last spoke in this chamber 12 months ago, I had just inherited a nation in crisis with a stagnant economy, inflation at record levels, a wide open border, horrendous recruitment for military and police, rampant crime at home and wars and chaos all over the world. But tonight, after just one year, I can say with dignity and pride that we have achieved a transformation like no one has ever seen before. That's true. And a turnaround for the ages. It is indeed a turnaround for the ages. We have seen a transformation. I thought I was going to make it an hour before drinking. But I think I'm going to text downstairs and ask for a wine. I think I need a wine. Okay. It's a little much of a cheering. And we will never go back to where we were just a very short time ago. We're not going back. Today, our border is secure. Who is this for? The USA chant. Today, our border is secure. Our spirit is restored. Inflation is plummeting. Incomes are rising fast. The roaring economy is roaring like never before, and our enemies are scared, our military and police are stacked, and America is respected again, perhaps like never before. All right, so here's some feedback on the Super Chats. Arliss Bunny says, talk as much as possible. No one wants to hear all of this. I say this with dignity and pride. All right, Arliss, a little worried about my voice, but I'll do what the people want. After four years, in which millions and millions of illegal aliens port across our borders totally unvetted and unchecked. We now have the strongest and most secure border in American history by far. I should have mentioned the intro. Mayor Pete will be with us after Abigail Spanberger, so do stick around for that. Very excited to talk to my buddy. In the past nine months, zero illegal aliens have been admitted to the United States. But we will always allow people to come in legally, people that will love our country and will work hard to maintain our country. Really? That's interesting. That's not actually the policy of the administration. It sounds nice, but they're menacing people who've come in legally. The flow of deadly fentanyl across our border is down by a record 56 percent in one year. And last year, the murder rate saw its single largest decline in recorded history. This is the biggest decline. Think of it in recorded history, the lowest number in over one hundred and twenty five years. You're 1900. In fact, substantially before my wonderful father, I had a wonderful father, Fred, before he was born, substantially before he was born. That's a long time ago. He wouldn't like me to say that, but that's a long time ago. The Biden administration and Congress gave us the worst inflation in the history of our country. But in 12 months, my administration has driven core inflation down to the lowest level in more than five years. And in the last three months of 2025, it was down to one point seven percent. Cheers out there to fellow folks who decided it's wine o'clock. The jaw is something to monitor. I'm not sure if it's going to last the whole time. Gasoline, which reached a peak of over $6 a gallon in some states. Under my predecessor, it was quite honestly a disaster. It's now below $2.30 a gallon in most states. And in some places, $1.99 a gallon. And when I visited the great state of Iowa just a few weeks ago, I even saw one dollar and eighty five cents a gallon for gasoline. A lot of Biden talk so far. It's been quite a long time since Joe Biden was president. Not a great sign when you have to continually talk about. Mortgage rates are the lowest in the past and falling fast. And the annual cost of a typical new mortgage is down almost $5,000 just since I took office. One year. Because the economy is terrible. And low interest rates will solve the Biden-created housing problem. Well, at the same time, protecting the values of those people who already own a house that really feel rich for the first time in their lives. We want to protect those values. We want to keep those values up. We're going to do both. We're going to do both. We're going to lower prices for some, keep prices high for others. We're going to keep it high. The stock market has set 53 all-time record highs since the election. Think of that. One year, boosting pensions, 401ks, and retirement accounts with the millions and millions of Americans. They're all gaining. Everybody's up, way up. In four long years, the last administration got less than $1 trillion in new investment in the United States. And when I say less, substantially less. In 12 months, I secured commitments for more than $18 trillion pouring in from all over the globe. The hunch. A lot of whiteys. Think of it. Much less than $1 trillion for four years versus much more than $18 trillion for one year. What a difference a president makes. Honestly, if you made this black and white when they show the Republican side, it could be. Now we are the hottest country anywhere in the world. The hottest. It could be Dwight D. Eisenhower's. State of the Union. Same demographics on the Republican side. As thousands of new businesses are forming in factories, plants, and laboratories are being built, we have added 70,000 new construction jobs in just a very short period of time. It's getting bigger and bigger and stronger. Nobody can believe what they're watching. American oil production is up by more than 600,000 barrels a day, and we just received from our new friend and partner, Venezuela, more than 80 million barrels of oil. The friend and partner, the great friend and partner of Venezuela, the communist dictator that we installed after deposing the other communists. That's great. That's a great friend and partner. I should say my buddy Joe Perticone's on Reddit doing an AMA. Go check that out. That's my promise to drill, baby, drill. So the truth here is that the oil industry is really kind of struggling. This is kind of like the housing thing where he wants to say cheap houses for new home buyers, high expensive houses for existing buyers. He's doing the same thing for gas. More Americans are working today than at any time in the history of our country. Think about that. Any time in the history of our country more working today, 100% of all jobs created under my administration have been in the private sector. that doesn't seem right we ended DEI in America clearly clearly great another W for white boomers we got a record number of job killing regulations And in one year, we have lifted 2.4 million Americans, a record off of food stamps. Kicking people off of food stamps is getting, looks like four people are standing up for that. And for all of these reasons, I say tonight, members of Congress, the state of our union is strong. Is anybody watching like the Benny Johnson live feed? I don't know. I don't know if you might have shirtless go-go dancers behind them. But do they like this? This feels very boring. You know, I mean, it seems like if I was a Mac, I'd rather be watching Canada. Our country is winning again. In fact, we're winning so much that we really don't know what to do about it. People are asking me, please, please, please, Mr. President, we're winning too much. We can't take it anymore. We're not used to winning in our country until you came along. We're just always losing, but now we're winning too much. And I say, no, no, no, you're going to win again. You're going to win big. You're going to win bigger than ever. And to prove that point, to prove that point, here with us tonight is a group of winners who just made the entire nation proud. The men's gold medal Olympic hockey team. Come on in. See, this is what I was trying to talk about earlier. Donald Trump actually isn't winning. He keeps losing. Everything is terrible that Donald Trump has put his hands on. Nothing's been successful. These guys won. He has nothing to do with them, though. Their victory is just as much your victory as mine and Hakeem Jeffries and Donald Trump's. He doesn't know anything about hockey. He didn't coach them. So, you know, it's important just to not let him have this. Not let him be on the side of the winning hockey team. We all won. Okay, great. The economy is a disaster. The foreign policy is a nightmare. You're tearing apart the capital. corruption everywhere costs are higher but the hockey team won that's nice kudos to those guys the Hughes brothers I like the other Hughes brother didn't score the goal is pretty handsome I will say can I say that on the live stream I find the other brother handsome um Kat asks what my feelings are about Dems who missed this could I blame them could you blame them I can't blame them. Kind of feel like skip or shout at them. Seem like the best options. How many of those guys can name two players on the team? I would have to imagine that Mike Johnson can not name a single player on the team. Anywho. that's the first time I've ever seen them get up and actually not all of them did get up see see what he's trying to do he wants that fight don't give him the fight as did the American women who will soon be coming to the White House will they? that'll be interesting to see will they be coming to the White House? that seemed more like a threat than an invitation does it just me? does that seem more like a threat than an invitation? Stephanie Pruitt says we are the only reason she's watching this. She was not going to watch it at all, but she came to listen. I'm sorry. It was my apologies. Feel free to not watch. You know, don't do this on my account. But I appreciate it. It's nice to see it. Nancy asks, I can't do this. Why am I doing this? We're all asking that. I'm certainly asking that. We were in the office before, and I just want to say a second. Very big congratulations to Team USA. I have to say that, and I told them this, and we took a vote of the team. I said, anybody votes no, I'm not doing it. So they stood there, and they weren't about to say no, because I've never seen a goaltender play as well as goalie Connor Halliburth. Here's one thing. Half the speech is going to be about the hockey team. This is the only good thing going. I should note they removed Al Green, so there's one less black person in the building. Al Green got removed. I guess you can't carry a sign in Donald Trump's America. What happened to free speech? I will say this goalie was awesome. I'm not a hockey expert, but I do believe he had 46 saves in the gold medal game. That's awesome. I love that. I wish Al Green could be in here to see that, but they kicked him out. He had 46 shots on gold, and I asked him, the one shot, the one where you put your stick in the back and it hit the neck of your stick and bounced off. Do you practice that? Or was that a little lucky? He refused to answer that question. But I just want to tell you that the members of this great hockey squad will be very happy to hear, based on their vote and my vote, and in this case, my vote was more important, that I will soon be presenting Conor with our highest civilian honor, which we will be given and which has been given to many athletes over the years. But when I say many, not too many, like 12. Oh, my God. It's called the highest civilian honor in our country, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Our man, Joe Pertikon, right there. There he is. He is answering your Reddit questions and sitting right next to the newest Presidential Medal of Freedom winner. Shout out to Joe Perkin. Looking handsome. Was JBL right about the hockey team? Ms. Industrial asked. No, obviously not. Okay, my plan. I'm right. Let's see. Shauna told me that's in the bottle. We'll get there. And I thought he deserved it. And I did take a vote. Every single one of them. I said, I'm not giving it if anybody goes no. And every single one of them rapidly put up their hand. So I want to thank you. What a special job you did. what special champions you are. Thank you very much. This is great. This would have been nice if it was like SportsCenter. We do have some pretty serious problems in the country. And I don't think that dedicating 10 minutes of the speech to the hockey team and praising them is a great sign for Donald. I'm also pleased to say that the next time the Olympic torch is lit, it will be here in America for the 2028 Olympics. And it's the summer version right in Los Angeles. We're going to do a good job in Los Angeles. Well, you hope so. And a lot of people don't want to come to the country right now. Tourism's down, I think, 11% was the last I saw. People are scared that they're going to get hassled at customs and deported. And Los Angeles is going to be safe, just like Washington, D.C. is now one of the safest cities in the country. Well, that's good news for the next mayor of Los Angeles. Hopefully not Sharon Bass. And I must say, I got him in my first term. And I was disappointed because I didn't think I'd be the president when this happened. But strange things took place. And now I've got him because I got the Olympics. I got the 2026 FIFA World Cup and I wanted to claim the 250th, but I didn't get away with that one. I couldn't claim that one for myself, but we're getting the World Cup. So we have the World Cup and the Olympics coming. And that is exciting news. Starting a business can be overwhelming. You're juggling multiple roles, designer, marketer, logistics manager, all while bringing your vision to life. Shopify helps millions of business sell online. Build fast with templates and AI descriptions and photos, inventory and shipping. Sign up for your one euro per month trial and start selling today at Shopify.nl. That's Shopify.nl. It's time to see what you can accomplish with Shopify by your side. JBL might have been wrong about the hockey team, but here's the thing he's right about. This will be a year to celebrate our country and the heroes who have kept it free. Men like Buddy Taggart. At age 17, Buddy volunteered to defend America in World War II, serving in the Pacific under the great General Douglas MacArthur. He fought bravely in the famous Battle of Manila, worked so hard. He was badly wounded and almost killed by enemy machine guns in Luzon. And 81 years ago, he liberated the largest internment camp in the Philippines, one of the largest anywhere in the world. But he earned many honors, including a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, came home, started a family. And tonight he is in the gallery looking forward to July 4th, 2026, his 100th birthday. That's nice. It's unfortunate that he has to sit next to Melania, but we do appreciate his service. I'm going to tease you about what JBL is right about. We're going to wait until the next time it speaks to me, but he was right about something. Speaking of recessed side profiles, look at Eric. Boy. So, buddy, you're a brave man, and we salute you. Even in times of challenge, setback, and immense heartache, the spirit of 1776 has always shown through very brightly. It was July 4th of last year when floodwaters tore through a girls' summer camp in Central Texas. One of the worst things I've ever seen. I was there, rising 26 feet. He was there. Matter of minutes, tragically claiming many, many lives. You all remember that one? As the waters threatened to sweep her away, 11-year-old Millie Kate McClayman closed her eyes and prayed to God. She thought she was going to die. Those prayers were answered when Coast Guard rescue swimmer Scott Ruskin descended from a helicopter above. Nobody knew where he came from. It was Scott's first ever rescue mission. young guy, very brave, very, very top, always top in his class. And he lifted not just Billy Kate, but 164 others to safety. That's nice. What a sweet girl. Another thing Donald Trump has nothing to do with is kind of the stolen valor section of the speech. But. Nice. People watch Scott from a distance and they couldn't believe what they were seeing. The winds were blowing. The rain was pouring. Everything was going in that rapid water. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. They said, wow, that's something. Tonight, Scott and Millie Kate are here together, reunited for the very first time. Thank you, Scott, Millie Kate. Thank you. And Petty Officer Ruskin, I'm pleased to inform you that I am now awarding you the Legion of Merit for Extraordinary Heroism, which is what it was. Extraordinary Heroism. Thank you. Is it just my screen or is J.D. and Mike Johnson's face getting cut off for everybody else? Because that's really pleasant. One of the nice gifts I've been given here. I'd like to have the military aide to please come down and take care of the service. Military aide. Thank you very much. Take care of that very important service. Thank you very much. From 1776 to today, every generation of Americans has stepped forward to defend life, liberty, and happiness. Well, not you. Not you, though, actually. And they're really doing it for the next generation. But now it's our turn. Together we're building a nation where every child has the chance to reach higher and go further, where government answers to the people, not the powerful, and where the interests of hardworking American citizens are always our first and ultimate concern. That is the debt we owe to the heroes who came before us, And that is the promise we must keep to America for our 250th year. Last year, I urged this Congress to begin the mission by passing the largest tax cuts in American history. And our Republican majorities delivered so beautifully. Thank you, Republicans. I got to tell you, in some ways, this feels like he's giving up. This is like a valedictory. We're going to hand out awards. I'm going to be the toastmaster. I'm going to talk about how good I've done. All Democrats, every single one of them, voted against these really important and very necessary massive tax cuts. Everyone's really feeling it. You hear it when you're talking in the streets. People are like, that tax cut, that made a big difference for me. And you do hear that at the country club. They wanted large-scale tax increases to hurt the people instead. Well, just the rich people. And we held strong, and with the great, big, beautiful bill, we gave you no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security for our great season. No tax on tips. You can tip us right now and get your super chat in. I don't know if the massive tax cut for the wealthy and the regressive sales tax in the states is really great for that forgotten man. We also made interest on auto loans. tax deductible the first time, but only if the car is made in America. That's a nice gimmick. No one knows about any of these things. This is one of the downsides of Trump, like, owning the news cycle by doing ape racist shit. Megan Hemhauser, a devoted mom whose homeschools her children, beautiful, two children, during the day while waiting tables at night as her husband works overtime, operating very heavy equipment. Megan is here this evening and she's happy to tell you that she is so, so much richer because with no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and her expanded child tax credit done again by Republicans, Megan and her husband will take home more than $5,000 extra just for the year, cutting her tax bill in more than half. That's Sarah Longwell, fresh off a birthday dinner. Why are you doing this to yourself? Megan, please stand up. I heard it was hard out here for you by yourself. Yeah, but it's a Lenten sacrifice. I'm a Catholic. This is what we do We suffer during Lent I got back from dinner I put it in the chat and I said does Tim need help And they were like jump on We listened to him and then talked during the conference. Brand new Trump accounts. And I didn't name it. You hear a lot about the Trump accounts in the focus groups? I don't think I've heard a single person mention Trump accounts. Nobody believes me, but I did not name it. It was named by a very tall man standing right there in the third row. I believe you, that someone sucked up to you. I do believe that. Factory investment accounts for every American child. This is something that's so special and has taken off and gone through the roof. Millions will be pre-funded courtesy of the U.S. Treasury and private individuals like Michael and Susan Dell, who have donated $6,250,000,000 to fund the Trump accounts for 25 million American children. That's so pathetic for Michael Dell. Just call them the Dell account. They're great people. Why are you doing this? It's just so embarrassing. A few shots. Nicole says she needs to get violently stoned. I agree. Sarah, are you going to have a glass of wine with me? Or what are you doing? You know, I'm a couple of them. Oh, okay. Which is probably why I said, just let me cook. Just a man. Okay, great. Top of the cheek. Well, I just sat on my dorm in school, and I made computers, and I'd sell them to people. And I just kept selling and selling and selling. And pretty amazing story. That's called the American dream. He sold a lot of computers, a lot of those laptops. So I congratulate him on that. But I really thank him and Susan, as well as others like Brad Gerstner, a very tremendous guy. He was behind it right from the beginning. Have you been watching? Are you coming in cold? No, I was watching a little bit, which is why I wanted to get on, because I was like, I have thoughts on this. Are we just taking private donations now from people and announcing them at the State of the Union? Yes, correct. It's like a Toastmasters State of the Union. These young people's accounts could go to over $100,000 or more by the time they turn 18. Think of it. How much money is that for somebody that started with nothing? Over $100,000 could be much more than that. To make this investment in our children's future, go to TrumpAccounts.gov. TrumpAccounts.gov. And a lot of people are doing it. They're setting every way. No children should go near anything with Trump's name on it. I knew what it was going to take. I'm so proud of them. I'm so proud of the people that got it started. And now it's just taken off. One of the primary reasons for our country's stunning economic turnaround, the biggest in history where the Dow Jones broke 50,000 four years ahead of schedule and the S&P hit 7,000 where it wasn't supposed to do it for many years. Is there a schedule? The Dow Jones currently is at 49,000, I should just say. It's not like it doesn't hit a mark and then you just get to keep it. Both economically and on a national security basis. Everything was working well. Countries that were ripping us off for decades are now paying us hundreds of billions of dollars. They were ripping us so badly. You all know that. Everybody knows that. Even the Democrats know it. They just don't want to say it. And yet these countries are now happy. And so are we. We made deals. The deals are all done. And they're happy. They're not making money like they used to, but we're making a lot of money. There was no inflation, tremendous growth. And the big story was how Donald Trump called the economy correctly. And 22 Nobel Prize winners in economics didn't. They got it totally wrong. They got it really wrong. And then just four days ago, an unfortunate ruling from the United States Supreme Court. It just came down. It came down. Very unfortunate ruling. Democrats finally get to clap. But the good news is that almost all countries and corporations want to keep the deal that they already made. Right, Scott? Knowing that the legal power that I, as president, have to make a new deal could be far worse for them. And therefore, they will continue to work along the same successful path that we had negotiated before the Supreme Court. So the pitch here is that foreign countries are going to voluntarily keep paying the tariffs? I don't think that will stand up in court. Let's see if he yells at the SCOTUS justices. They're right in front of you. Say it to their faces. We'll remain in place under fully approved and tested alternative legal statutes. And they have been tested for a long time. They're a little more complex, but they're actually probably better, leading to a solution that will be even stronger than before. Congressional action will not be necessary. It's already time-tested and approved. And as time goes by, I believe the tariffs paid for by foreign countries will, like in the past, substantially replace the modern-day system of income tax, taking a great financial burden off the people that I love. Yeah, a regressive tax code. That's great. That's what he wants. Taxes for everything you buy. No tax for rich people and their investments. I'm not sure he's mentioned affordability. Somebody said that. He did mention the gas prices. Lucas asks, where is the $199 gas? Have you seen $199 gas? Not in Washington, D.C. The dollar will continue pouring into the United States of America because we finally have a president who puts America first. Put America first. I love America. He's sort of like ChatGPT where he like restates everything after he says it. Yeah, with the little M-dash. Brian Conner, 92-45, says I'm going to need to do a line off the toilet seat to make it through. For decades before I came along. Not the worst idea. He had the exact opposite. Make him help, Secretary. From trade to health care, from energy to immigration, everything was stolen and rigged in order to drain the wealth out of the productive, hardworking people who make our country great, who make our country run. Under Biden and his corrupt partners in Congress and beyond, it reached a breaking point with the Green News scam, open borders for everyone. They poured in by the millions and millions from prisons, from mental institutions. There were murderers, 11,888 murders. They came into our country. You allowed that to happen. and record-setting inflation that cost the typical family $34,000 in just a speck of time. Now, the same people in this chamber who voted for those disasters suddenly used the word affordability, a word. They just used it. Somebody grew to them, knowing full well that they caused and created the increased prices that all of our citizens had to endure. You caused that problem. You caused that problem. So this is really the pitch here. So you did miss this. This is like a third or fourth time through on Biden. We'll drink it when he mentions Biden. Oh, okay. Yeah, he, it's all, I think what he thinks is way out of his political problem is to try to remind people they didn't like the Biden economy. They knew their statements were a lie. He did not reelect Joe Biden. They knew their statements were a dirty, rotten lie. Their policies created the high prices. Our policies are rapidly ending them. We are doing really well. Those prices are plummeting downward. They are. They're plummeting downward. I don't even think they're ticking downward. I don't think they're going down at all. The price of eggs is down 60 percent. Just eggs. Madam Secretary, thank you. The cost of chicken, butter, fruit, hotels, automobiles, rent is lower today than when I took office by a lot. And even beef, which was very high, is starting to come down significantly. Just hold on a little while. And soon you will see numbers that people would think were possible to achieve just a short time ago. go. Nobody can believe when they see the kind of numbers, especially energy, when they see energy going down to numbers like that, they cannot believe it. It's like another big tax cut. I'm also confronting one of the biggest ripoffs of our times, the crushing costs of health care caused by you. Since the passage of the Unaffordable Care Act, sometimes referred to as Obamacare, big insurance company, has gotten rich. It was meant for the insurance companies, not for the people. With our government giving them hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars a year as their stock prices toward 1,000, 1,200, 1,400, and even 1,700 percent, like nothing else. That's why I introduced the great health care plan. I want to stop all payments to big insurance companies and instead give that money directly to the people so they can buy their own health care, which will be better health care at a much lower cost. Okay. Well, they can't pass anything, actually. Lucas is back. He says his tax cut for the, quote, people he loves is pretty telling. I agree with that. Sully wants to drink every time he says tariffs. I'm not going to do that. in addition my plan requires maximum price transparency that's a big deal i asked earlier how things are going on the benny johnson feed turns out they're not sure but there are fewer viewers than we have and i don't know that the mega base is that excited about this. I don't think so. I'm not sure, too, if you think they're just blaming the Democrats the whole time. I'm also blaming the wildly infunded cost of prescription drugs like has never happened before. Is it just me, or do you think they seem muted in the chamber? They do. There was more cheer. They cheered a lot for the hockey team. I saw that part. Well. But they never could. They tried. Most didn't try, actually. But they tried. They said they tried. They couldn't do it. They didn't even come close. They were all talk and no action. But I got it done under my just enacted most favored nation agreements. Americans who are for decades paid by far the highest prices of any nation anywhere in the world for prescription drugs will now pay the lowest price anywhere in the world for drugs anywhere. The lowest price. So some protectionism and some wish casting on health care. But, you know, we're in the first year. I did see that. Yeah. Come on. Don't stand. Strange thing. No one's going to notice that you stood. I took prescription drugs, a very big part of health care from the highest price in the entire world to the lowest. That's a big achievement. The result is price differences of 300, 400, 500, 600 percent and more, all available right now at a new website called TrumpRx.gov. And I didn't name that one either, by the way. Oh, yeah. Sure. Did you hear about our new friend and partner in Venezuela? I did. Were you on from that? I did. We loved that. I did do that, yeah. Yeah. The new community. Partner Night is the very first customer ever to get that big discount, and it is big. Catherine Rayner. For five years, she and her husband have struggled with infertility, and they turned to IVF. One drug has been costing Catherine $4,000 to purchase. But a few weeks ago, she logged onto the TrumpRx website and got that same drug that cost $4,000, Got it for under $500, a reduction of much more, actually, than $3,500. Catherine, we are all praying for you, and you're going to be a great mom. This is like such a classic, boring State of the Union. The Trump doing the thing where he's like, I'm going to name a random person and talk about how. Who is this for? I don't know, but somebody did say that it's the Republicans sitting on the Dem side. Well, now I'm calling in Congress to notify my most... Starting a business can be overwhelming. You're juggling multiple roles, designer, marketer, logistics manager, all while bringing your vision to life. Shopify helps millions of business sell online. Build fast with templates and AI descriptions and photos, inventory, and shipping. Sign up for your one euro per month trial and start selling today at Shopify.nl. That's Shopify.nl. It's time to see what you can accomplish with Shopify by your side. Favorite nation program into law. Now, the one thing, I'm not sure it matters because it's going to be very hard for somebody that comes along after me to say, let's raise drug prices by 700 or 800 percent. But John and Mike, if you don't mind, codify it anyway. They may do it. Codify it anyway. Thank you. Many Americans are also concerned that energy demand from AI data centers could unfairly drive up their electric utility. What's happening, Artie? Tonight, I'm pleased to announce that I have negotiated the new rate payer protection pledge. You know what that is? No. We're telling the major tech companies that they have the obligation to provide for their own power needs. They can build their own power plants as part of their factory. so that no one's prices will go up. And in many cases, prices of electricity will go down for the community and very substantially down. This is a unique strategy never used in this country before. We have an old grid. It could never handle the kind of numbers, the amount of electricity that's needed. So I'm telling them they can build their own plant. They're going to produce their own electricity. It will ensure the company's ability to get electricity, while at the same time lowering prices of electricity. It could be very substantial for all of your cities and towns. You're going to see some good things happen over the next number of years. Another pillar of the American dream that has been under attack is homeownership. With us tonight is Rachel Wiggins, a mom of two from Houston. She placed bids on 20 homes and lost all of those bids to gigantic investment firms that bypassed inspection, paid all cash and turned those houses into rentals. This feels false. This did not happen. I'm sorry. Not all 20 of them were. Well, are we just going to glide by the fact that, is this right? We're going to have the tech companies pay for the AI data centers that have only been built? What's going on? State economy. It's never happened here before. You can trust us. The oligarchs and the president have cut a deal. The president has shaken them down. And so now you can put these dirty data centers in your community and know that it's just trust Mark Zuckerberg. Make that ban permanent because home is for people. Great. And if he doesn't, Trump will really crack down. Not for corporations. Corporations are doing just fine. Raysell, thank you very much. Good luck with your home. You'll get one soon. Amy Jo is only walking for us. Someone's going to get a baby soon. Someone's going to get a house soon. And look underneath your feet for one lucky member of Congress. A new car. For retirement. and under this administration, we will always protect Social Security and Medicare. They are not protecting it. For our seniors, we will always protect Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid. This is amazing. I love how he's leaning in on health care, the thing that they're currently gutting and have no plan for. The typical 401k balance is up by at least $30,000. That's a lot of money. Michelle Vollmer writes that she doesn't have any stocks. She's not that thrilled about that. She's got higher groceries than power bills. Like, I would say, a majority of Americans. Yet half of all of working Americans still do not have access to a retirement plan with matching contributions from an employer. To remedy this gross disparity, I'm announcing that next year my administration will give these often forgotten American workers, great people, the people that built our country, access to the same type of retirement plan offered to every federal worker. We will match your contribution with up to one thousand dollars each year as we ensure that all Americans can profit from a rising stock market. How is he going to do any of this? Members of Congress cannot corruptly profit from using insider information. Yeah, it's been happening your whole time. You're in your second term now. It's all just like, how long has this been going on? Do we have a time count? I don't know, but is it just me or can he not stand up? Like, does he need the table? He's like lying on the table and like trying to read the prompter. The jaw and the leaning. I'm noticing the jaw and the leaning. They stood up for that. I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Did Nancy Pelosi stand up if she was here? doubt it pass the stop insider trading act without delay this is so it's so galling that's cat I think this is so galling it's like this guy is making billions upon billions on insider trading and he's like okay you know congressman Jones You know, don't make a couple bucks on your fucking, you know, Amazon stock. They shouldn't do insider trading. He's making hundreds of billions. They shouldn't do insider trading, but lectures from him are the popular. They don't have anyone to investigate the insider trading. They could write the law. Who would prosecute them? The DOJ is busy. And in actuality, the number is much higher than that. and California, Massachusetts, Maine, and many other states are even worse. It's only been 45 minutes? The kind of corruption that shreds the fabric of a nation. It's been 1,000 years. So tonight, although started four months ago, I am officially announcing the war on fraud to be led by our great Vice President J.D. Vance. Oh, great. Yeah, J.D. Vance is really going to crack down on fraud. I'm sure that all the fraudsters they've pardoned. I'm sure J.D. Vance will review that. It takes a fraud to know a fraud. It's kind of like a catch-me-if-you-can situation. You know, you hire the guy that was doing the fake checks. That's right. If we find enough of that fraud, we will actually have a balanced budget overnight. It will go very quickly. That's the kind of money you're talking about. We'll balance our budget. The Somali pirates who ransacked Minnesota remind us that there are large. Were they pirates? And lawlessness are the norm. I think that's him. Not us. Importing these. What's up with his audio? Restricted immigration and open borders brings those problems right here to the USA. And it is the American people who pay the price and higher medical bills, car insurance rates, rent, taxes, and perhaps most importantly, crime. we will take care of this problem. We're going to take care of this problem. We are not playing games. Delilah. Tam Alex writes, I have colon cancer and I'm taking immunotherapy. We're so sorry. They ask, where are those drugs? I'm not sure if he was asking Trump where the cheap drugs he was promising are or asking us if we had drugs. Trump is making it up, so he can help you. Me, DM me. We'll see if he can help you out. 2024 when a 18 wheel tractor trailer plowed into her stopped car traveling at 60 miles an hour or more. The driver was an illegal alien led in by Joe Biden and given a commercial driver's license by open borders politicians in California. Doctors said Delilah would never be able to walk or talk, have a good life. She wouldn't even be able to eat again. But against all odds, she is now in the first grade learning to walk. And she's here this evening with her dad, Marcus, a fantastic man. Delilah, please, you are a great inspiration. Please stand up. This is nice. And the thing where we pretend like Trump cares about these people is just, it's too much to bear. Good for, we love Delilah. I wish her the best. Watching him, just to go back, the thing that made me get on, watching him do the soul and valor thing with the hockey team was enraging. Thank you, Delilah. He didn't score any goals. Many of the illegal aliens do not speak English and cannot read even the most basic road signs as to direction, speed, danger. What? Or location. That's why tonight I'm calling on Congress to pass what we will call the Delilah Law, barring any state from granting commercial driver's licenses to illegal aliens. This is an old one. We'll be a bit of goody. Been working on this one for a while. You know. Maybe the Democrats could negotiate with him on this if he wasn't murdering people in the streets. I hosted a ceremony with Americans who lost their treasured loved ones to the scourge of illegal immigration. People came into our country, how we allowed this to happen. Are the pretty or good families there? Do we know? We'll look into that. I don't know. Our government betrayed and our media totally ignored. Totally. It was terrible. Hard to believe, actually. In 2023, a 16-year-old high school cheerleader named Elizabeth Medina was supposed to perform in her town's Christmas parade, but she never arrived. Her mother, Jacqueline, went home to look for her, and she found her lying dead in a bathtub, bleeding profusely after being stabbed 25 times. Lizbeth's killer was a previously arrested illegal alien who had broken in and brutally extinguished the brightest light in her family's life this snuff porn stuff her heartbroken mother is in the gallery to remind everyone in this chamber exactly why we are deporting illegal alien criminals our country at record numbers and we're getting them the hell out of here fast. We don't want to. Breitbart did this thing about a decade ago that had a section called Black Crime. And it's just like we're just going to talk about the victims of black crime. This is just the updated version of that. We're just talking about the evidence of immigrant crime. This is bad. That person should be on the count of what's horrible. You feel horrible for this mother. But like, again, his agents are killing people. Yeah, but... Where are their families? Nobody's objecting to deporting murderers. And we can never forget that many in this room snuff felt felt not only allowed the border invasion to happen before I got involved, but indeed they would do it all over again. If they ever had the chance, if they ever got elected, they would open up those borders to some of the worst criminals anywhere in the world. So the only thing standing between Americans and a wide open border right now is President Donald J. Trump and our great Republican patriots in Congress. Thank you. Harry Nis writes, every Trump story is like a true crime podcast that he solves. That's right. That's what he's trying to do. As we speak, Democrats in this chamber have cut off all funding for the Department of Homeland Security. It's all cut off. Yeah. All cut off. They have instituted another Democrat shutdown, the first one costing us two points on GDP. Two points we lost on GDP, which probably made them quite happy, actually. Now they have closed the agency responsible for protecting Americans from terrorists and murders. Tonight, I'm demanding the full and immediate restoration of all funding for the border security, homeland security of the United States and also for helping people clean up their snow. We have no money because of the Democrats. Back to the drawing board. That cleaned it up, but you gave no money. Nobody's getting paid. It's a shame. So you have to think about it. This entire speech is actually the state of our union is bad, actually, and it's Democrats. One of the great things about the state of the union is how it gives Americans the chance to see clearly what their representatives really believe. So tonight I'm inviting every legislature to join with my administration in reaffirming a fundamental principle. If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support. The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens. Oh, boy. You got us. You got us now. Oh, I won't stand the command. Great one. Gavin Newsom says Donald needs some of his hair gel. His hair is looking a little flat tonight. they really Stephen Miller was really happy with that gimmick stand up if you like Americans better than illegals okay sure I don't stand a command great okay some of the super chats starter because I thought this was supposed to be uplifting. Me too. Dork Quixote, good name, said he's doing stolen valor once a while. He didn't make her walk. God bless her, though. I agree with that. Levy says, From the bottom of her lifelong democratic heart, thank you to me and Sarah. You're welcome. We're doing our best. Donna's watching with no sound and just watching our faces. That's great. Donna's winning. Amy Jo is only watching because of us thank you Leah Moran went to school with Kat Kamek tell us about that anything else on that? I bet she was popular I'd like to know a little more Leah she seems to find it to be important to stand in the middle of the aisle to demonstrate clapping I'm not going to say why she might be in the middle of the aisle Julian says this reminds me of Brezhnev addressing the Supreme Soviets Crystal would appreciate that reference What are we even talking about? What are we even clapping for now? Is this still the clap for We like Americans better than illegals You should be ashamed of yourself You should be ashamed of yourself You should be ashamed of yourself Fuck you That is why I'm also asking you To end deadly sanctuary cities That protect the criminals And enact serious penalties For public officials Who block the removal of criminal in many cases drug lords, murderers all over our country. They're blocking the removal of these people out of our country, and you should be ashamed of yourselves. They're killing Americans. You should be ashamed. Got a text from a buddy. Just sit there. Don't give him anything. I'll give him one of these. Buddy says that Trump said Somali, so he got paid by Calci. Congratulations, my friend. I don't support doing Calci, but, you know. You're going to do it. Yeah, we took a pass on that advertising, but... We did. Hell no. It's a prediction market advertising. Perhaps most importantly, I ask you to approve the Save America Act. Elon Omar was one of the people screaming at Trump that he's killed Americans. We stop illegal aliens and others who are unpromitted persons from voting. in our sacred American elections. That cheating is rampant in our elections. It's rampant. Oh, sure. Let's play this. It's very simple. All voters must show voter ID. It's actually not what the bill says. In the bills, there's a lot of things. Here's the one thing where I'm kind of with them. I actually think they should turn up the SAVE Act a little bit. Passport voting only. Passport voting only. All voters must show proof of citizenship in order to vote. Biometric passport-only voting, I think. And no more crooked mail-in ballots except for illness, disability, military, or travel. None. That's all of them. Some are mail-only states. And this should be an easy one. And by the way, it's polling at 89%, including Democrats. No, it's not. 89%. No, it's not. People like mail-in voting. Man, why are you so mad? The mail-in voting thing is ominous. That's where they're going to go in the midterms. And I do think it's going to be too big. And even the new communist mayor of New York City, I think he's a nice guy, actually. I actually think it backfires on that. He loves Zorro. He loves Zorro. He just said they want people to shovel snow. They got hit hard. want some dishevels? No, but if you apply for that job, you need to show two original forms of ID and a social security card. Yet they don't want identification for the greatest privilege of them all voting in America. No, it's no good. This is one of those things, this is a winning issue for them in a vacuum. People do support that. But there's like so many other problems. It's just like, really? Okay. And Congress should unite and enact this common-sense, country-saving legislation right now, and it should be before anything else happens. Good luck. Unfortunately, a lot of your congresspeople have quit because they hate you. Per Perdico and Tom Cole, Congressman Tom Cole is asleep. Hopefully he's just resting his eyes because very narrow majority for Republicans right now. How can you sleep through Donald Trump screaming at you? The reason they don't want to do it. Why would anybody not want voter ID? One reason because they want to cheat. There's only one reason. They make up all excuses. They say it's racist. They come up with things. You almost say what imagination they have. They want to cheat. They have cheated. And their policy is so bad that the only way they can get elected is to cheat. And we're going to stop it. We have to stop it, John. John is it John Roberts who's he playing out there John Thune we talked earlier before we went on about how John Thune has matched his skin tone is he also quite orange he's a burnt sienna now and here is one more opportunity to show common sense to his government in the gallery tonight are Sage Blair and her mother Michelle in 2021 Sage was 14 when school officials in Virginia sought to socially transition her to a new gender, treating her as a boy and hiding it from her parents. Hard to believe, isn't it? Before long, a confused sage ran away from home after she was found in a horrific situation in Maryland. A left-wing judge refused to return sage to her parents because they did not immediately state that their daughter was their son. Sage was thrown into an all-boys, stayed home, and suffered terribly for a long time. But today, all of that is behind them because Sage is a proud and wonderful young woman with a full-ride scholarship to Liberty University. Sage and Michelle, please stand up. I was happy for Sage until I heard that she has to suffer through Liberty University. Why would there's Maria Botaromo? That's nice. That's a tough one. She's next to Erica Kirk. I once kissed a girl in the parking lot at Liberty University. I kissed a boy from Liberty University. Wow. Yeah. I guess Liberty University kids like to try it out a little bit on somebody's face. Like a clearly closet person. Who can believe that we're even speaking about things like this? Were you also in the parking lot? 15 years ago. No, I wasn't. I was in Delaware. I was in Delaware. What's wrong with him? He was a graduate. Now we have to say it because it's going on all over numerous states without even telling the parents. At least we had that moment. But surely we can all agree no state can be allowed to rip children from their parents' arms and transition them to a new gender against the parents' will. Who would believe that we're even talking about this? We must ban it, and we must ban it immediately. John Kasich thinks the president is a real opportunity to bring the country together. Don't read me that tweet. Don't read me that tweet. I had to work so hard today not to spend all day yelling at him. John Kasich is not. These people are crazy. Bring us together. They're crazy. They're crazy. I'm curious if viewers or more people watching, is anyone really liking this? Is anybody very excited? I genuinely wonder. I can feel it's just so like. He doesn't even see me. We're like, we're in a country with people like this. Democrats are destroying our country but we stopped it just in the nick of time not really actually he seems mad he knows things are going bad and he's lashing out he's lashing out no one cares more about protecting America's youth than our wonderful first lady now a movie star can you believe it great job The past year has had an incredible impact, championing AI legislation, advancing a landmark executive order on foster care, and helping secure $30 million to launch the Melania Trump Foster Youth to Independence initiative. It's a tremendous, really a tremendous thing that happened and had a lot of bipartisan support. She gets much better bipartisan support than I do. I get none. And she gets a lot. Someday you're going to have to tell me how you did that. And students and educators in every state have joined the First Lady's efforts in the presidential AI challenge, keeping America's next generation position to succeed and strongly succeed in the future. Tonight, we welcome two young people whose lives reflect the First Lady's impact. Sierra Burns and Everest Nevermont. I'd like to see Melania try the SAT. Melania, thank you. I mean, she's struggling with English. I just think it's worth reflecting on the fact that we just spent 20 minutes yelling about immigrants and driver's licenses. Yeah. They can't read stop signs. Can Melania read all the street signs? It doesn't seem like her English is top-notch to me when she talks. She's got a driver to take her everywhere. That's a good point. Of the people. Also, her skin tone. strange, unnatural I'm very proud to say that during my time in office everyone's just got a lot of blondes on the first four years and in particular this last year there has been a tremendous renewal in religion faith, Christianity and belief in God tremendous renewal let's applaud God we're praying that Donald Trump's mass agents don't kill them turn to the Lord side point But, you know, he is mentioning the smallest, most minute things because they don't have any big achievements to talk about. The fact's cut. My great friend, Charlie Kirk, a great guy, great man. Uh-oh, Candace. Watch out. Candace has got to be seething right now. So last year Charlie was violently murdered by an assassin and martyred, really martyred for his beliefs. His wonderful wife Erica is with us tonight. Erica, please stand. Candace thinks Erica is the murderer. That's wrong. A couple of you commenters I noticed were on Candace's side about that. You're incorrect. Erica is not the murderer. She had some pretty, a couple strange choices, but like, okay, I don't know. Just want to say, not the murderer. In Charlie's memory, we must all come together to reaffirm that America is one nation under God, and we must totally reject political violence of any kind. What about in the streets of Minneapolis? None of the family members of the people we sent to the gulag. We love religion. And we love bringing it back. And it's coming back. We love religion. Nobody actually thought possible. It's really a beautiful thing to see. Above all, unleashing America's promise requires keeping our community safe. We have made incredible strides, yet dangerous repeat offenders continue to be released by pro-crime Democrat politicians again and again. And we are honored to be joined tonight by a woman who's been through hell, Anya Zuretska. In 2022, she and her beautiful daughter, so beautiful. What a beautiful young woman. Irina fled war-torn Ukraine to live with relatives near Charlotte, North Carolina. And by the way, what's going on with Charlotte? Last summer, 23-year-old Irina was riding home on the train when a deranged monster who had been arrested over a dozen times and was released through no cash bail stood up and viciously slashed a knife through her neck and body. No one will ever forget there were people on that train. And no one will ever forget the expression of terror on Irina's face as she looked up at her attacker in the last seconds of her life. She died instantly. She had escaped a brutal war only to be blamed by a hardened criminal. Can we mute him for a second? She's got free to kill in America. Andrew Jackson asks with Italia new policies that are either illegal or impossible to enact. He's got four so far. Four feels low to me. Sarah, quiet part out loud. wants to know what do you think all the founding fathers would do with this guy? Well, they would remind him that Congress exists to pass laws. Tarring and feathering? Maybe? That's just something that came to mind for me. I don't know exactly what the rules were on that, but I do think that treason did come with a penalty of tarring and feathering. This woman, it's so sad that we'll have this woman, but this is so sick that he tries to tie in the Ukraine part. I think about all the people in Ukraine that are dying because of him. They've stolen the fucking children. He's rolling out the red carpet for Putin, we can put him back on. I just couldn't deal with that anymore. Leah says that Kat Kamek was utterly insane in high school and promises to email us. I look forward to that email, Leah. Thank you. Starting last summer, I deployed our National Guard and federal law enforcement to restore law and order to our most dangerous cities including Memphis, Tennessee big success New Orleans, Louisiana big success and our nation's capital itself Washington D.C. where we have almost no crime anymore in Washington D.C. how did that happen? well the military is everywhere in our streets crime was going down during last year. In fact, crime in Washington is now at the lowest level ever recorded, and murders in D.C. this January were down close to 100 percent from a year ago. Going through the super chats here, Almost 3331 asks why did them still show up? This is one worth walking out on, maybe. I mean, if he's going to sit there and harangue them. One of the brave service members who helped achieve this sudden turnaround. Betsy Blue asked if anyone else has a massive headache. Yeah, I do. After a four-month deployment, she voluntarily extended her service. Sarah Bextro. I got on this chat because it was too boring to just sit and watch. I want to talk about this poor woman who we lost. It's horrible. She was on patrol near the White House when she was ambushed and shot in the head by a terrorist monster from Afghanistan. She shouldn't have been in our country. And all because she wore the uniform of our nation, she was sad. You know what this shit is? This is like if you took the lead story from Newsmax from every night throughout the whole year and then you just compiled it. Sarah Beckstrom died in order to defend our capital. We joined the Newsmax lead. And we are honored to be joined by her. It is amazing how absent content this is. Your daughter was a true American patriot, and she will be greatly known. She was a great person. They bring them in to tell us. It's attached to a, like, policy achievement. This is just, let me tell you about this horrific murder so you can hate immigrants more. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. Lucas, the whole Louisiana, it didn't feel like a big success having the National Guard here. There's no progress. My bag did get checked once when I went down to the French Quarter for Mardi Gras. So sorry. Thank you very much. They didn't stop Shia LaBeouf, let me tell you. Shia LaBeouf was on a reign of terror through the French Quarter. He got arrested. He was beating people up. He was doing homophobic slurs. Shia? Shia was hammered all weekend. and the National Guard trips did nothing to stop Shia LaBeouf. The two of them, Sarah, both shot LaBeouf violently in the head. Neither was expected to make it. Texas Moose says everything is bad, but this is our golden age. His wonderful mother, named Melody, who I spoke to the same night. What's the point? All he's doing is listing horrific things that happened. Is this supposed to make us feel good about America? No, no, Mr. President. Andrew will be fine. He's going to make it. I've never seen anything like it. I mean, he was given almost no chance. She said, I have no doubt, sir. He's going to be OK. This was a conversation that I had with her that night with the son laying helplessly in bed, blood all over. Everybody is praying, she said. Sir, he will be OK. The doctors didn't understand what she was saying. and after looking at the results of the damage done, neither did I. You guys just keep hanging out. She was so strong and conclusive that even Andrew's great father felt she didn't really understand the gravity of the situation. But she turned out to be right. Right, Melody? She turned out to be right. Starting a business can be overwhelming. You're juggling multiple roles. designer, marketer, logistics manager, all while bringing your vision to life. Shopify helps millions of business sell online. Build fast with templates and AI descriptions and photos, inventory and shipping. Sign up for your one euro per month trial and start selling today at shopify.nl. That's shopify.nl. It's time to see what you can accomplish with Shopify by your side. Thank you. amazing actually i said where does this woman come from she's the most positive person i've ever met with god's help andrew has battled back from the edge of death and we're talking about the edge of death on his way to a miraculous recovery he's got a little work to do but he's doing great nice to see he's a good looking guy nice to see you thank you talking about men's looks thank you Make sure you say no homo. So, Andrew, while you're up, now I'm going to ask a highly respected General James Seward to present Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe and the great family of Sarah Beckstrom with the award created by our late, great President George Washington himself. It's called the Purple Heart. Okay. Guys, this is a weird state of the union. I'm happy for this man. But this is all so strange. Okay. Purple hearts and We love you all Love you We're proudly restoring safety for Americans at home And we are also restoring security for Americans abroad Our country has never been stronger My first ten months I ended eight wars Including Cambodia You didn't end eight wars This is not a thing Sick people yeah you can't believe in thailand pakistan and india would have been a nuclear war 35 million people said the prime minister of pakistan would have died if it were not for my involvement kosovo and serbia israel and iran egypt and ethiopia a normal person as a bison the congo and Rwanda, and of course the war in Gaza, which proceeds at a very low level. It's just about there. And I want to thank Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner for your help. Thank you, Steve. But now that we're at the foreign policy section, I just want to know, did we obliterate Iran's nuclear program, or do we have to go fight a war to make sure that Iran doesn't get nuclear weapons? which is it I hope he tells us and I also want to thank the mandate report too Secretary of State Marco Rubio thank you Marco oh show us Marco I want to see him I want to see what he looks like oh hey Sam hey Marco looks he's short he's doing that thing he's in the meme Thank you. You know, Marco got 100 percent of the votes when he was in confirmation. I think our next one was about 54 percent And some of the Democrats are now saying I can believe we approve that guy And he said it an honor that they feel that way Right, Marco? You have done a great job. Great secretary of state. I think he'll go down as the best ever. He looks unhappy. He never looks. He's doing the meme again. Yeah. He's like, actually, this is humiliating for me. I've sold my soul. under the sea it's unbearable to live my life every single husband both living and dead has been returned home can you believe that how you feeling Sarah uh good um I'm glad you're here I don't know how Tim just fits in vamps through this whole thing I just want to make upset faces the whole time nobody thought that was how he does it yeah both living and dead and his parents who had a dead son, their boy, they'd always tell me their boy, they wanted him as much as though he were living. It was an amazing period of time. They came back, and we got all of the living hostages back, and many, many before them, but I always said those last 20 were going to be very tough. But we got many, many more. What do you make of it so far? But I said those last 20 were going to be tough. We got them back. We only got back 15 of the dead of the 28. It's so boring, punctuated by the occasional horrific story of someone being murdered. And they dug, and they dug. Like that. It's a tough thing to do. Going through bodies all over. Passing up 100 bodies sometimes for each one that they found. Tough job. And they finally got it back to 27. And then Steve and Jared, they got it back to 28. They found all 28. Nobody thought that was possible, but we did it. And I remember the family of the 28. They were so grieved, but they were so happy, as happy as it's possible to be. They had their boy back. The mother said, sir, we have our boy back. What a period of time that was, but we got them all back. So thank you both very much. Thank you. And we're working very hard to end the Ninth War, the killing and slaughter between Russia and Ukraine, where 25,000 soldiers are dying each and every month. Think of that. 25,000 soldiers are dying. Bad Bunny. A month. Bad Bunny would make this better. Imagine if he came out. As president, I will make peace wherever I can, but I will never hesitate to confront threats to America wherever we must. That's why in a breakthrough operation last June, the United States military obliterated Iran's nuclear weapons program with an attack on Iranian soil known as Operation Midnight Hammer. How can you? Apparently not. Apparently not. We're still going at them. let's square this circle I want to hear so are we doing anything else in Iran Barbara Wingles says Wingles says can you please show us your cat again so much better than this dreck he left many decades that was Harry since they I left my boys name them and we're on chapter one book five of Harry Potter one book three no book five kind of a plot like this they've killed and maimed thousands of American service members hundreds of thousands and even millions with what's called roadside bombs they were the kings of the roadside bomb and we took out Salameni I did that during my first term had a huge impact he was the father of the roadside bomb folks I'm just holding in the fort until Tim comes back You don't have to bear me much longer. I was fine by myself. I'm helping you out. They've killed at least, it looks like, 32,000 protests. 32,000 protesters in their own country. Here he is. Having some pistachios. Hung them. We stopped them from hanging a lot of them with the threat of serious violence. But this is some terrible people. Here we go. They've already developed missiles in Europe and our bases overseas, and they're working to build missiles that will soon reach the United States of America. After Midnight Hammer, they were warned to make no future attempts to rebuild their weapons program, and in particular, nuclear weapons. Yet they continue starting it all over. We wiped it out, and they want to start all over again. and are at this moment again pursuing their sinister ambitions. We are in negotiations with them. They want to make a deal, but we haven't heard those secret words. We will never have a nuclear weapon. My preference. But what are you going to do? They're just clapping because he said he doesn't want nuclear weapons. My preference is to solve this problem through diplomacy. But one thing is certain, I will never allow the world's number one sponsor of terror, which they are by far, to have a nuclear weapon. Can't let that happen. This is just an unbelievable joy. Ari Fleischer liked it. And no nation should ever doubt America's resolve. We have the most powerful military on earth. I rebuilt the military in my first term. We're going to continue to do so. Also, we just approved a trillion-dollar budget. We have no choice. We have to be strong. Because hopefully we will have to use this great power we built together. So it's really called the Gorilla Mindset. That was his book, The Gorilla Mindset. Oh, yeah, you're right. I forgot about that. I'm looking at my MAGA Twitter feeds and it's not much. So thanks to Republicans in Congress who are investing that record number of dollars, have no choice in the United States Armed Forces. Also creating a lot of jobs, but we're not even doing it for that reason. Because as I said, we have more jobs, more people working today than ever before in the history of our country. And NATO countries are friends and allies. They are. They're our friends and they're our allies. I've just agreed, at my very strong request, to pay 5% of GDP for military defense rather than the 2%, which they weren't paying. We were paying for almost all of them. You know, it's not a country club. They're not dues. You don't pay anybody. It's just how much of your own budget goes to the military in defense. Megan Kelly, you should know, on her stream, she's just doing the hall monitor. She's just monitoring to see if the Democrats are standing or not standing. It's very important to Megan Kelly. Very few were paid. That Jason Crowe stamp. 95% then they're paid. At a certain moment. And everything we send over to Ukraine. She's very bad. And they pay us in full. They pay us. Megan Kelly. Totally in full. Every branch of our armed forces. She's crushing the candidate. Setting records for recruitment. This is so exciting. And every service member. She's going to be the mediator. She's mediating. Oh, I forgot about that. She didn't. She did mediate. Didn't work out. George Conway running for Congress in New York says that a lot of this is delusional projection. He's a malignant narcissist. Delusional projection. That's future Congressman George Conway. I'll tell you, since we've started having different legal experts on the legal show. You know, they put it in my desk and we got the money from George. Then we used it with George. Legal news. subscribe to them after we build that program a little bit but it won't take long but we got the money and it was 17 we got a time check how long are we here I'm in the seventh layer what's the number 1775 you know what chat person I said wait a minute the board should host one of the Democratic primaries call your congressperson I said I never asked anybody if we could afford it one more dollar I said 1776 will make great moderators and I said that's good and I'll tell you what our military We're an hour and 26 minutes in. I've never seen a person in the military that doesn't thank me for it, so we're honored to do it. Only an hour left. We call it 17. No, we said over under two hours, 10. And we love our military. We love our law enforcement. We love our firemen. You know, the firemen don't get mentioned. We love our firemen. We love our firemen. Firemen are great nowadays. No one ever talks about our firemen. Guys, if you have questions for Mayor Pete, go ahead and put them in the chat. Even the super chat, because my brain is atrophying. Also, if you just ask those questions. We're also restoring American security and dominance in the Western Hemisphere, acting to secure our national interests and defend our country from violence, drugs, terrorism, and foreign interference. For years, large swaths of territory in our region, including large parts of Mexico, really large parts of Mexico have been controlled by murderers have we given sufficient attention to that's why I designated Kat Kamek and the role she's playing we have we have declared the list of men is a weapon of lexicon lexicon designs as why is Jared Kushner involved so much in foreign policy I can feel that one he got about a billion from MBS he's in a business deal with the Serbians he's in a business deal with the UAE With our new military campaign, we have stopped record amounts of drugs coming into our country and virtually stopped it completely coming in by water or sea. You probably noticed that. Water or sea. Not redundant. R.B. Very seriously, Damon, if they're fishing in there. You know, sometimes we have that dirt water. Nobody wants to go fishing anymore. We've also taken down one of the most interesting. Nobody wants to go fishing anymore. You saw that yesterday. When's the last announcement? In January. Thank you. I read Intermezzo by... I forget the name of the person. January Elite American Warriors carried out one of the most complex, spectacular feats of... I'm Stally Rudy. I'm reading a book that John Lovett recommended to me. If no one's seen anything like it. I won't tell you who called me. It was like a 1980s pop psychology book about evil. They couldn't believe they all watched. They saw what happened. This is the different fighting force that we had years ago when we fought to tie. It's a great fighting force. I'm so proud of it. Look at Space Force. Space Force is my baby. Jason Isbell writes, can't wait for Scott Jennings on how amazing this is. No, it's not Jason Isbell. It's Jason Bell. We appreciate you as well. I was so excited for a second. Tim Tim people's watching Jason what's up people of the lie the hope for healing human evil by M. Scott Peck that's what I'm reading right now in America's armed forces overwhelmed all defenses are not only defeated enemy good fighters to end the reign outlawed Nicholas Maduro and bring him to face the American first first esteem. Oh, look, Paul McCartney. Country music artist. Drop a super chat. And this was an absolutely colossal victory for the security of the United States, and it also opens up a bright new beginning for the people of Venezuela. Wow, my God. We're back to Venezuela. Didn't we do Venezuela? Our new friends. Well, Sam, I don't know if you've noticed, but it's not a very structured speech. If you had to say what the narrative arc of this speech is, what would you say? It bends toward boring. Alejandro Gonzalez, she grew up in a tight-knit Venezuelan family. This is interesting. I assume we're going to pull up a Venezuelan here that we nabbed off the streets, feet on their tattoos, and sent to a foreign gulag and tell their story. Let's listen. I think that's probably what will be happening here. Really infamous prison in Caracas. Oh, wait. Oh, Caracas. Alejandro feared she would never see her uncle again. She feared for her own life also. But since the raid, we have worked with the new leadership, and they have ordered the closure of that vile prison and released hundreds of political prisoners already. Wait, they're releasing prisoners in Tarnation? Alejandro, I'm pleased to inform you that not only has your uncle been released, but he is here tonight. We brought him over to celebrate his freedom with you in person. So we're not bringing any of the Venezuelans that we're detaining and jailing right now. Got it. This is such a Jerry Springer daytime television show move here. I wish someone would throw a chair. Come on down. You're long lost uncles here. The Mar-a-Lago Awards. Pat Kanky, who has a good YouTube himself, he's watching us. He says, thanks for coming to Minneapolis. We did a better show than what Trump is putting on. And I agree with that. Christopher Eves asked if I could say hi to his wife, Jill, to help her get through this. What's up, Jill? How you doing? How you doing? Why'd you say it like that? Nice to have you. I mean, get a little excited. You never know. I was already feeling uncomfortable with this. Liberty parking lot. It was very dangerous. They knew we were coming. they were all set but the needs of one warrior that night will live forever in the eternal chronicles of military valor Chief Warrant Officer 5 Alright, I have some breaking news, Arthur Delaney from HuffPost says, hour and four, five minutes into the speech Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar have left just got them left it's a beautiful, powerful helicopter, there's a massive Chinook carrying, as you can imagine, many, many American war fighters. Wearing the dog tags his wife Amy had blessed with holy water before he left. She knew it was going to be a rough one. Look, honestly, Joe Biden, if he wasn't going to jail, should have let him be the head of the USO and let him fly around giving out awards to people. soldiers and guarding a Russian and Chinese technology. How did that work out? He doesn't want to give awards. He wants to take awards from other people. While preparing to land, enemy machine gets fired from everything else. He got to go metal today. Very badly in the leg and hip, one bullet after another. He absorbed four agonizing shots, shredding his leg into numerous pieces. And yet, despite the fact January 6th. That the use of his legs is vital to successful telecoms. That have committed subsequent sex crimes. Meet the creative cellist. Ask what Joseph out of office gummies does he need to forget the speech ever happened. The 15. Don't go higher than five. Five. No, multiple 15s. Six or five. Here's the thing. Here's what happens. You take a 15 and then you call 911 on yourself. Machine guns stood right in front of him. Not medically done. Right in front of him two machine gunners. You do the you do the sole challenge which is you build up by five five to ten ten to fifteen. With all of those lives I take the three and go to sleep. I'm sorry. Gunners eliminate three to five. Turn the helicopter around so the gunners could take care of business saving the lives of his fellow warriors from what could have been a catastrophic crash deep in enemy territory. Only after safely landing the helicopter with all the warriors aboard in the exact right spot, which was vital to the mission. That's too many milligrams. Maybe cancel the mission if that didn't happen. Eric told his co-pilot, also wounded, but not as gravely, to take over. I'm about ready to pass out. The success of the entire mission and the lives of his fellow warriors, Hinge and Eric's ability to take over. Machine Gun Kelly. Had what we call in the prison system a bitch. Unbelievable what's happened to his legs. One night, Machine Gun Kelly took out his knife and cut out the bitch's eyes. People knew what was happening. Everybody in the back of the helicopter knew because they saw it. And defiled him in his ocular cavity. Chief Warrant Officer Slover is still recovering from his serious wounds, but I'm thrilled to say that he is here tonight with his wife Amy, Eric, and Amy. Come on in. Here's the thing. Trump thinks he can beat the old man rap by just talking for a really long time. Come on down. Edgar, we screwed up. We should be listening more. Andrew Edgar is actually watching, so we should have put him on instead of Sam. Responsible. I'll leave. He wants us to note that the comment about how no one wants to go fishing anymore is about the war crimes we're doing. We're blowing up the boat, so people don't want to go fishing anymore. It's not that funny, actually. Not funny. We have crossed Bill Clinton's record for longest state of the union in history. We need sound effects. I need a sound effect button. Can we get on that for the next one? Eric and Amy. in recognition of Eric's actions above and beyond the call of duty, I would now like to ask General Jonathan Braga to present Chief Warrant Officer Slover with our nation's highest military award, the Congressional Medal of Honor. We're going to do it live? This guy looks like he deserves it. Congratulations. The stolen valor, the scope of the stolen valor in this speech is truly beyond measure. He has nothing to say about any achievement. Right. Thank you. Sam, how's morning shots looking for tomorrow? Not great. What are we going to do in this? I don't know. What is the takeaway? Bill will probably find some fabulous paper to wrap it all together. That's true. Thank God for Bill. Maybe he'll do an inside Trump's mind. You know, in England, something that they're looking into now is assisted dying. It's gone a little bit overboard in Canada for my taste. Thank you very much, Eric and Amy. It's interesting now. I'm intrigued. With them and with a lot of their fellow warriors of Fort Braggie. My name is Fort Braggie. On your 95 first day. The Second World War with it. And then they decide to change the name. So we changed it back. Wow. Everybody wanted to change back, too. and ten of Eric's fellow warriors from that incredible time of victory will also be receiving medals at a private ceremony that was to be held at the White House. Eric will be there. He writes, so far this speech has been so full of falsehoods and fictions I'm starting to wonder whether the USA men's hockey team did actually win the gold medal. What? For the journal editorial page. We're going to take that. That's a little funny and correct. So, progress. Guys, no one is having fun. No one likes it. This is torture. That's a big one. Tonight we've celebrated many truly extraordinary American patriots, but there is one last living legend to honor before we go. He is one more heroic American aviator, Navy fighter pilot. Charles Williams served in World War II, Korea, Vietnam flying more than 220 missions. In disguise over Korea in 1952, Royce was in the dogfight of a lifetime, legendary dogfight, flying through blizzard conditions. His squadron was ambushed by seven Soviet fighter planes. It was his first aerial combat of the war, and despite being massively outnumbered and outgunned, Royce led the takedown of four enemy jets and almost destroyed the others, vanquishing his adversaries while taking 263 bullets to his own plane and being seriously hurt. His story was secret for over 50 years. James Carville was in from his cruise ship. You fat, sorry sack of shit. People hate you. But tonight at 100 years old, this brave Navy captain is finally getting the recognition he deserves. He was a legend long before this evening. Royce, please stand up, and I will ask the First Lady of the United States to present Captain Royce Williams with his Congressional Medal of Honor. Amy Powell says, Sarah, my daughter has admitted to Kenya, and we visited the second time yesterday, and she's going to commit. I love that. Tell her she's going to have the best time of her life. XC Depth donated $4.20 with the comment, bong rips for Tim. I'm not doing those on weeknights anymore. I've got to be fresh for you guys in the morning. In your 40s, there's a hangover to the bong rips. Susan Clark also, Kenyon. Kelly Guy is a veteran of PTSD. He had a great session with his therapist this morning. After watching this, he's going to call her to see if she's available tomorrow. I'm sorry I did this to you, Callie Guy. Go watch Love Story, Jonathan Kennedy Jr. and Catherine Bissette. Have you watched it? Carolyn Bissette. Have you watched? Of course. I haven't watched it. I'm intrigued, but I haven't gotten there yet. It's a season premiere of Survivor 50. There's been 50 Survivors? I'm never going to watch Survivor again. I watched John Lovett. I love it. In the first episode, the amount of joy I experienced in that moment. is unmatchable, and I don't know why I would do anything that would be less satisfying. Can't believe they didn't bring him back to the 50th. This guy looks awesome, by the way. Interesting how Jared and Ivanka kind of like slowly crept their way back into this administration after going off and washing their hands of it. Yeah, it's going to do some deals. Yeah, it's tough. One of the tough things to really think about if you're not dark enough yet is just that, like, now, like, just generational stolen wealth for the Christian or great-grandchildren. Years after we're gone. You know, it's tough. It's tough on the stomach. Unless we claw it all back in the next administration. something to think about thank you Eric I've always wanted the congressional medal of honor but I was not allowed to give it to myself and I wouldn't know why I'd be taking it but if they ever open up that law I will be there he's going to take it he's going to take it from that old man yeah he's going to give it to me that's a big thing and it's an honor to be in the same room with you thank you both very much Eric thank you Thank you. 250 years is a long time in the life of a nation. This is the book end. But in other sense, it's really a mere moment in the eye of history. Two of the gentlemen we met in the gallery this evening took their first breaths. This is a horrifically written speech. One hundred years before that on July 4th, 1826, the author of the Declaration of Independence, brilliant, Thomas Jefferson, who was last breath. Just a single long human lifespan separates the giants who declared and won our independence from the heroes who stand among us. They would hate you. Everything our nation has done, everything we have achieved, has been the work of those few great lifetimes. In those brief chapters, Americans built this nation from 13 humble colonies into the pinnacle of human civilization and human freedom. The strongest, wealthiest, most powerful, most successful nation in all of this country. I remember. I remember. I remember. I remember. Americans ventured out across the daunting and dangerous continent. I do know this. Oh, my God. I know, but I began reciting it to my wife when I was telling her about it, and as I lapsed into the second part, I was like, wait a minute. Talk about stolen dollars. You know what? If they thought I was right, that was good enough. A couple people were just nice enough not to say anything. First complaint about King George, he has refused his ascent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. I think he's on the wrong side of the Declaration. Americans lifted humanity into the skies on the wings of aluminum and steel. And then we launched mankind into the stars on rockets. I was doing a mashup. American will and unyielding American pride. We wired the globe with our ingenuity. We captivated the planet with American culture. and now we are pioneering the next great American breakthroughs that will change the entire world. All of this and so much more is the enduring legacy, unmatched glory, of the hardworking patriots who built and defended this country and who still carry the hopes and freedoms on all of humanity's backs. For years they were forgotten, betrayed. Now I remember why I hated Lent as a kid. But that great betrayal is over. The Clinton sacrifices are horrible. I'm serious. I need questions for Pete. When the world needs courage, daring, vision, and inspiration, it is still turning to America. Are you going to stay on? I got on early so that I didn't have to go away. And when God needs a mission to work these miracles, he knows exactly who to ask. Yeah, I'm out. Which you tell him. No frontier to ask for us to conquer. I was asking whether or not I could handle getting on the chase. No horizon too distant for us to claim. For our destiny is written by the hand of providence. And these first 250 years were just the beginning. From the rugged border towns of Texas to the heartland villages of Michigan. From the sun-kissed shores of Florida to the endless fields of the Dakotas. and from the historic streets of Philadelphia to right here in our nation's capital, Washington, D.C., the golden age of America is upon us. The revolution that began in 1776 has not ended. It still continues because the flame of liberty and independence still burns in the heart of every American patriot. And our future will be bigger, better. You can tell how bored he is by these parts. Mark Kirtling wants me to clarify that this is... Thank you. God bless you. And God bless... You surfing. Co-opted. And you surfed Valor. Thank you. What a miserable speech. What's our head count? What's our time? What do we get? Where do we roll in at? We went well under 210. Well under 210. The under was right. Man, I was getting ready to just buckle up for a little bit more. One hour 47 minutes. Did he get anything out of that? No. What will people remember about that? I guess him yelling at the Democrats and the hockey team, I think, is what people remember. If anything, nothing. I'm trying to do what I remember. What do you remember? I don't even remember. I don't remember. Boring, boring, boring. Lie, lie, lie. Violence. Lie, lie, lie. Boring. More violence. The snuff film element of it, just like giving details of grisly murders, I think is the most notable Trump innovation of the State of the Union. I don't recall a lot of that before him. I don't know. The other, I mean, looking right at the Democrats and being like, this is your fault. Because can I just, this is, as an overarching matter, he gave an almost two-hour speech about everything bad. Like it was almost all bad stuff. Terrible things are happening. And then at the end he's like, we're in a golden age. And there's your girl. There's your girl. Kat Kamek is everywhere. You cannot miss her. You know what the kids are calling what Kat Kamek did tonight? She was frame-logging. She was frame-logging. I don't think it's the same way that... Speaking of, do we have the video of Clavicular and J.D. Vance ready? If we do, just go ahead and pull that up whenever. Kat Kamek was frame-logging. This is just a gift for everybody. We had to suffer. Sorry, I just want to give everybody a little dessert. Our friend Clavicular... My grandma texted me today. She's like, stop making fun of J.D. Vance. And I was like, oh, my God, bro. Like, it's so bad. I'm not going to do that. He's fat and he's ugly. No thanks to you, Grandma. I appreciate it, but no thank you. You can see why he's fourth in the Chad rankings right now on kick. Cavicular. No thank you, Grandma. You called your bro. Cat Camick was frame-mogging. So here's what's left for everybody sticking with us. We get Abigail Spanberger. We get bulwark pills now. We get Abigail Spanberger giving a rebuttal. That should be easy. A lot of material to work with there for her, Governor of Virginia. And then Slayer Pete will come on. Do we have a couple of reporters maybe? We got Edgar coming in soon. We got to get Edgar in. I'm going to let Edgar. I'm going to tap out on her. You're done. I'm going to go watch Abigail. I'm going to go watch Abigail. Get on the couch. with your wife and just get a gamma ice cream. Why don't you, let me give you a little recommendation. Why don't you pull up the actual Gettysburg address and study it for a few reference. That's fine. Why don't you say the preamble to both those documents and see how you do. I knew them both and said them together. I mean, you just, you accepted a standing ovation. You accepted a standing ovation. She absolutely did. Everyone was so amazed by her. You guys, I thought it was right at the time. And I'm going to tell you, your confidence made me recoil because there was a little, just that part of your brain that's like, it doesn't sound exactly right, but I was like, I'm not going to challenge her on the spot. All the words were familiar. They're all true words in founding documents. They're just from two separate documents. That's Andrew Egger. We've got Abigail Spanberger and Pete Buttigieg after that. Andrew, any deep thoughts? Sorry, you get on it. Bye, see you. 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Well, I guess I had a bummer thought and a good thought, and the bummer thought was that it's a little bit crazy that he did, like, 10 minutes of just, like, shaking a finger at the Democrats to their faces saying, you guys steal elections, and we're not going to let you do it anymore, and we're going to be doing a lot of stuff to prevent you from doing that in the future. And Republicans are all out here saying, pass the SAVE Act, or we're going to lose the midterms. I mean, just, like, all this very, like, naked election malfeasance stuff. And yet, like, even, like, to us, even to us people who are, like, totally keyed up on it, like, it's still almost, you almost have to, like, make yourself pay attention to that kind of thing. Like, that's how bleak it is out there on one level with regard to the election stuff. Like, that's crazy that that happened in a State of the Union address. Can I offer a positive off of that crazy, though? Yeah. I was going to be glass half full, Tim, today. It was like when JBL said, isn't it concerning you that three of the nine members of the Supreme Court are total hacks, so he'll give Donald Trump whatever he wants? And I was like, well, six aren't. So that's surprising. Here's my response to that. That did not seem like a State of the Union from somebody that wants to be a permanent dictator to me. I'll just say. Like, I mean, on the curve of, like, normal presidential speeches, that was insane, and, like, the lies were off the charts, and, you know, it makes you embarrassed to be an American. But, like, I don't know. I mean, on the Trump scale, he could have been crazier. I guess I would prefer Toastmaster Trump thinking about the arc to Trump, thinking about renaming things after himself over, like, Putin Trump, like thinking about how to push his enemies out of buildings and consolidate power. And that seemed like an old man who wanted to have a valedictory. Is that wrong for you? No, I totally agree with that. Sorry, Sam, go ahead. Well, I'm just going to throw the question back at you. Like, what would a, like, I want to be dictator speech look like? I think it'd be a little tighter. No, you're wrong. All the dictators go long. What are you talking about? That could be a little tighter. I don't know. I think that he would have announced a new mission. You know, we're invading Springfield to find the real cat and dog eaters. You know, like, we have plans to. He talks about Somali pirates. Yeah. we're going to dismantle the midterms we're going to make sure that the midterms are safe by putting again he talks about mail-in ballots and all that shit it's not good don't make me I was like Trump was it was dangerous it was a liberal I'm just waiting for the people to clip it the thing I keep coming back to the thing I keep coming back to the guy has a limited finite number of chances to somehow pull a rabbit out of his hat and turn this thing around ahead of the midterms in like eight months or however far they are now. He is burning through them. You know, this was one big one that in theory, if he had anything to do, he could, this would have been a moment to do it. And it's just not happening. It's just, I mean, he's, he is going to do his thing. He's going to do his thing tomorrow and the next day and the next day and the next day. And then they're just going to crash land into the midterms. seems to be the way this is going to go, barring some dramatic new economic giant recovery or something like that. But he does not seem like he has another gear. To me, it's just like a classic illustration of a White House that's so obsessed with creating Internet moments versus actually doing anything other than that. If you believe that illegal immigrants are horrible and Americans are great, you would stand up. That was just so transparent. And all the awarding... You don't think that was a clever gotcha? I mean, it would be clever if it wasn't so transparently a gotcha. You don't think Jake Auchincloss was shaking in his boots? Should I stand or should I sit? But obviously they're going to clip that and run on it and all that stuff. What is the clip? Oh, Megyn Kelly. It's like an arrow to the center. Look at this guy sitting and cheering illegals. I don't know, but again, do you disagree with the idea that this was built around trying to create viral moments, the hockey team coming in and Trump talking about Nancy Pelosi and stock trading? It felt like that was all that they were trying to do. I think that it was pretty weak if that's what they were trying to do. You have crazy Trump up there, the honey badger, and you could tell him to do anything. Think about it. He could have gone down into the crowd and stood next to Nancy Pelosi and shouted in her face. Like, can't enter a stock. Yeah. I don't know. Sign this right now, you know. I don't know. I guess. I don't think any of those. It was a little bit low. I'm trying to think, like, one of those moments will be viral on, like, barstool Twitter. Like, the hockey thing, right? But, like, I don't think that shouting at the Democrats was that great. There was no through line. No through line whatsoever. He got up there and he immediately was just like, it was bad under Biden. It's better under me. Let's hand out 500 awards. I mean, it's just, there was nothing to it. We just went and went and went. Joe Perticone spent a few minutes watching. Can you name the North Dakota Senators? Hovind. Can you name the North Dakota Senators? Hovind? Yeah. I got one. Rounds? Really? Rounds. Kramer. Kramer. Oh, yeah. I forgot that John Hovind was a senator, actually. Joe Perticone did it, which is good since he's the congressional reporter for the board. He watched Hovind, and he spent about five minutes scrolling through the photos he'd taken, deleting the ones he doesn't like. And that's good. That's nice. What would you have done? Yeah, what would you have done if you were in the chamber? I would have absolutely been in Instagram. I've been on your house. Yeah, tweeting. Tweet it for sure. 2048. All right, well, we're still waiting for Abigail Spanberger. After Abigail Spanberger, we will have Pete, which I'm excited about. Do you guys have any thoughts on why Pete Buttigieg, unemployed father of two, decided to subject himself to this speech? That's going to be my first question for him. I'm wondering if you guys know. It's a great question. Why are you doing this, Pete? Don't you want to wake up with your kids? No. He's building his book. Do school drop out? Drop out a book? All right. Hold on. I've got to give you a little bit of a – apparently Spanburger has started, and we are working to get the feed up for folks. Okay. Come on, people. Well, Jared, let's get it started here if we can, and we deserve to at least see her. So if the folks running the show in the back and can get the stream up, let's do it. Good evening and welcome to Historic Williamsburg. We are gathered here in the chambers of the House of Burgesses. In 1705, the people of the Virginia colony gathered here to take on the extraordinary task of governing themselves. Starting a business can be overwhelming. 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And this year, as we celebrate 250 years since America declared our independence from tyranny, I can think of no better place to speak to you as we reflect on the current state of our union. Tonight, as we watched our nation's lawmakers gather for a joint session of Congress, we did not hear the truth from our president. So let's speak plainly and honestly. And let me ask you, the American people watching at home, three questions. Is the president working to make life more affordable for you and your family? Is the president working to keep Americans safe both at home and abroad? Is the president working for you? As I campaigned for governor last year, I traveled to every corner of Virginia, and I heard the same pressing concern everywhere. Costs are too high in housing, health care, energy, and child care. And I know these same conversations are being had all across this country. because since this president took office last year, his reckless trade policies have forced American families to pay more than $1,700 each in tariff costs. Small businesses have suffered. Farmers have suffered. Some losing entire markets. Everyday Americans are paying the price. And even though the Supreme Court struck these tariffs down four days ago, the damage to us, the American people, has already been done. Meanwhile, the president is planning for new tariffs, another massive tax hike on you and your family. And Republicans in Congress, they remain unwilling to assert their constitutional authority to stop him. They're making your life harder. They're making your life more expensive. They're even making it more difficult to see a doctor. Rural health clinics in Virginia and across the country are already closing their doors thanks to the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill, championed by the President and Republicans in Congress. And tonight, the President celebrated this law, the one threatening rural hospitals, stripping health care for millions of Americans and driving up costs in energy and housing, all while cutting food programs for hungry kids. But here in Virginia, I am working with our state legislature to lower costs and make the Commonwealth more affordable. All right, well. And it's not just me. Here we go. Democrats across the country are laser focused on affordability in our nation's capital and in state capitals and communities across America. in the most innovative and exceptional nation in the history of the world, Americans deserve to know that their leaders are focused on addressing the problems that keep them up at night. Problems that dictate where you live, whether you can afford to start a business or whether you have to skip a prescription in order to buy groceries. So I'll ask again, is the president working to make life more affordable for you and your family? We all know the answer is no. I grew up in a house of service. My mother was a nurse and my father was a career law enforcement officer. I began my career by following in my father's footsteps as a federal agent working money laundering and narcotics cases. I worked side by side with local and state police to keep our community safe and to uphold and enforce the law. Law enforcement officers across the country know that it is a unique responsibility to do the serious work of investigating crimes, comforting victims, and making arrests. It's about building trust, and that requires an abiding sense of duty and commitment to community. And yet, our president has sent poorly trained federal agents into our cities where they have arrested and detained American citizens and people who aspire to be Americans. And they have done it without a warrant. They have ripped nursing mothers away from their babies. They have sent children, a little boy in a blue bunny hat, children to far-off detention centers. and they have killed American citizens in our streets. And they have done it all with their faces masked from accountability. Every minute spent sowing fear is a minute not spent investigating murders, crimes against children, or the criminals defrauding seniors of their life savings. Our president told us tonight that we are safer. Because these agents arrest mothers and detain children? Think about that. Our broken immigration system is something to be fixed, not an excuse for unaccountable agents to terrorize our communities. After working in law enforcement, I continued my career of service as a CIA officer, working undercover to protect the United States and our allies from global threats, terrorism, nuclear weapons, and the aggression of adversarial nations around the globe. But as the President spoke of his perceived successes tonight, he continues to cede economic power and technological strength to Russia, bow down to China, bow down to a Russian dictator, and make plans for war with Iran. Here's the truth. over the last year through doge, mass firings, and the appointment of deeply unserious people to our nation's most serious positions, our president has endangered the long and storied history of the United States of America being a force for good So I ask again is the president working to keep Americans safe both at home and abroad We all know the answer is no. In his speech tonight, the president did what he always does. He lied, he scapegoated, and he distracted. And he offered no real solutions to our nation's pressing challenges. So many of which he is actively making worse. He tries to divide us. He tries to enrage us, to pit us against one another, neighbor against neighbor. And sometimes he succeeds. And so you have to ask, who benefits from his rhetoric, his policies, his actions, the short list of laws he's pushed through this Republican Congress? Somebody must be benefiting. He's enriching himself, his family, his friends. The scale of the corruption is unprecedented. There's the cover-up of the Epstein files, the crypto scams, cozying up to foreign princes for airplanes and billionaires for ballrooms, putting his name and face on buildings all over our nation's capital. This is not what our founders envisioned, not by a long shot. So I'll ask again, is the president working for you? We all know the answer is no. But here's the special thing about America. On our 250th anniversary, we know better than any nation what is possible when ordinary citizens like those who once dreamed right here in this room reject the unacceptable and demand more of their government. We see it in the determination of students organizing school walkouts all across the country, whose voices are becoming so powerful that the governor of Texas seeks to silence them. We see it in the bravery of Americans in Minnesota standing up for their communities, from peacefully protesting in sub-zero temperatures to carpooling children to school so that their immigrant parents are not ripped away from them in the parking lot. As a mother of three school-aged daughters, I am inspired by their bravery. But I am sickened that it is necessary. And Americans across the country are taking action. They are going to the ballot box to reject this chaos. With their votes, they are writing a new story, a more hopeful story. In November, I won my election by 15 points. And we won 13 new seats in our state legislature. Because voters decided they wanted something different. Our campaign earned votes from Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and everyone in between because they knew as citizens they could demand more, that they could vote for what they believe matters, and that they didn't need to be constrained by a party or political affiliation. This is happening across the country. New Jersey elected Mikey Sherrill as governor in a double-digit victory. Democrats flip state legislative seats in places like Georgia, Iowa, Mississippi, and Texas. The list goes on and on. Ordinary Americans are stepping up to run in the spirit of our forefathers. They are running to demand more and to do more for their neighbors and communities. I know this story well. I first ran for office in 2018 alongside dozens of other Democrats who did the seemingly impossible, flipping 41 seats in Congress. In my case, I was the first Democrat elected in 50 years, swinging our district 17 points. Those who are stepping up now to run will win in November because Americans, you at home, know you can demand more. and that we are working to lower costs. We are working to keep our communities and our country safe, and we are working for you. In his farewell address, George Washington warned us about the possibility of, quote, cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men rising to power. But he also encouraged us, all Americans, to unite in a common cause, to move this nation forward. That is our charge once more, and that is what we are seeing across the country. It is deeply American and patriotic to do so, and it is how we ensure that the state of our union remains strong, not just this year, but for the next 250 years as well. because we the people have the power to make change, the power to stand up for what is right, the power to demand more of our nation. May God bless the Commonwealth of Virginia and may God bless the United States of America. All right. There you go. That was Abigail Spanberger, new governor of Virginia, after that blowout win last November. I'm Tim Miller at the Bulwark. Thanks for sticking around with us. I'm starting to lose my voice. But we've got a little bit more. This is our post-State of the Union live show. We are going to get some more analysis and reaction from my colleagues, from Joe Particone, who is inside the room for a few minutes. But right now, I want to welcome a special guest. He's the mayor, secretary, a father, a slayer. You might know him. It's Pete Buttigieg. I think he's coming. There he is. Okay, now I'm up, and I still don't hear him. You can't hear me. I look good, though. This is the nice part about, you know, live streams and media. We'll just look at Pete's. Is that a little bit of a gray? Look at him. Look at that. I love that. He's got the flag pin. People are going to say the Democrats don't love America, but that's not true. You can see right there with the flag pin that they do. Why don't you guys take Pete to the back? You guys work out the audio. I'll vamp for a little bit. That's what we call a teaser in the business, okay? When I go on cable news sometimes, what they do, it's really kind of lame, you know? So, as they show your face. They show your face. They're like, hey, there's who's going to be up next. and they ask you to smile. And I never know what to do then. I kind of give a smile and I look weird. But anyway, that's Sam Stein. That's not Pete Buttigieg. Have you ever, have you, because I felt bad for you. Have you ever been on TV where they actually, have you ever been on TV where you can't hear them, but they're showing you? My very first TV hit, this happened. Or my second, maybe. My second TV hit of all time, this happened. That's awful. I was the spokesperson for John Huntsman. and it was really challenging it was a challenging moment I hope people can find that in the archives let's talk about Abigail Spanberger for a second while we wait for Pete workman like performance checked all the boxes didn't panic and look for a bottle of water the video was not creepy it was not in her kitchen you were not afraid that someone was going to grab a knife and stab you because there was a strange scream kitchen set. I got to say, the Katie Britt response, That was the best. In the annals of history, when we really look back on it, people, you know, they say Bobby Jindal did poorly, Marco did poorly, others have done poorly. The Katie Britt speech was the only time when, you know, you don't have a monoculture anymore, right? You don't have this communal experience. But here I was, and we're texting, you know, you're watching it for a few minutes, and it's so strange, and you do believe that creepy music is going to come in and that we're going to be in a scream situation. And you wonder why they're showing the butcher knives so closely and why the angle is such. And eventually, like, I start texting my friends. I'm like, am I just high or is this as weird for you as it is for me? It was, well, hold on. The Brit one obviously was the worst of the bunch, but there's been so many bad ones, right? The Bobby Jindal one, you remember that one. That was, like, the creepy sterile one. and Mark Rubio was a bad one. It's just a thankless job. I thought she was good. I mean, no one's going to remember any of this, right? But, like, I guess if I had to say one takeaway, it was how hard she went on the ICE stuff, right? Like, a year ago, Democrats would never even touch this shit. You know what's interesting? She mentioned ICE. He didn't. Do you know who we should talk about with that? Not me. Mayor Pete Buttigieg. I think he's ready now. Let's bring him back in. Did you notice that? that she mentioned ice and he didn't. Just do it again. Well, here you go. Welcome or not. I'll be here. I'm here as the Buttigieg standby. This is good content. Here's the thing. Why don't we keep me on until we're sure. We'll make sure he can talk and then you can kick me off. That's smart. That's a good idea. You should have been a producer on Morning Joe. in another life, Sam. No, probably not. But that is true. I believe it's true. Can you tell me if somebody said ICE? I don't think Trump said ICE. No. Did Trump say ICE? He talked about taking criminals out of the streets. Yeah, sure. He talked about the dead girls that random illegal immigrants killed. But he did not speak about their mass deportation program. No. Well, I mean, think about a year ago where we were. Where we were just like Democrats would were actually voting for price measures. And now they're running against... She directly referenced Liam Ramos. She talked about the masking issue. All this, keep in mind, is coming during a government shutdown over DHS funding, which Democrats have no... I see no indication that they are possibly going to bend on that. I thought it was a very notable signpost about where we are. I thought the delivery was good. The corruption stuff was the other thing that stood out. The way she went after them for just self-dealing corruption, the crypto things. I mean, it's very evident that those are some of the major planks, obviously, in healthcare, too. So, yeah. No, I thought it was a fine speech. Again, none of this matters. It was fine. Oh, wait, hello? Is that Pete Pooh? Can you hear me now? He has third time the charm. You hear me? All right. That's great. I'm complimenting your hair. You know, you're looking dignified now. I was able to look at that while you figured it out. Here's my first question. I would love to offer pearls of wisdom, but... Nope. Now I got something. Say something one more time. Here's my question for you. My main question. You sat there. You witnessed history. I don't know if you know this. This is the longest State of the Union on record in the history of the Republic. There's never been a longer State of the Union. Why did you watch it? That's a great question. I guess, you know, I can't say that I watched it hoping that I would learn something. I guess I watched it because I promised to talk about it on television afterwards. Let me say this. I think the reason a lot of real people watch the State of the Union is they want to know what it's going to mean to them, right? You imagine, you know, I just caught up after bedtime with Chastin. He's putting the kids down at home right now, or, you know, he put them down and then he follows along. A lot of people around the country are doing that. You get done with dinner, you put your kids to bed, and then you tune in to see if your president can tell you how he's going to make your life better, especially because this president has made your life worse, right? A year ago, he was promising the costs were going to go down. he has directly driven them up and it would have been nice to hear some indication of what he was going to do differently this time in order to have different results but uh obviously that's not what happened but i think a lot of people around america if they were hoping to get some indication of how their everyday lives were going to be better then they're going to be disappointed because at most they heard the same empty promises that were used to from this president and you know i don't don't take this wrong way i don't want to minimize you but i feel like you can relate to the average American. You're kind of an unemployed American now. And so if you didn't have to be on TV or with me after, I feel like you kind of would have turned it off, right? I mean, it was extremely boring. You know, great job for AI is to ask it to summarize it for you so you can read it in the morning, right? We heard some great news on AI that we are going to have a state-managed economy now where Trump is going to demand that Trump and the tech orgs have a deal. and they are going to make sure to pay for the data centers. Yeah, look, by the way, I think that they come after them. I mean, look, I think the AI companies should be doing whatever they've got to do to make sure that their data centers don't add to the price we're all paying for electricity, a lot of different ways to make sure that happens. But, again, the point is right now we're paying more for electricity. The president painted this picture that made it sound like the opposite, but we're paying more. Part of why we're paying more is the tariffs have increased the prices of the things that are needed to maintain utility grits. Part of it is that he's killing clean energy projects around the country. So, you know, look, it's not unusual. Everybody knows the president is loose with the truth. Everybody kind of braces for a lot of falsehoods. But in particular tonight, I think what's really striking is, you know, we're a year in. I mean, we're now substantially into the second year. All these things he said were going to get better are getting worse. And it's time for Democrats to come in with a different message, not just the message that everybody expects to hear from us, which is that this president is making you worse off. But here's what we can do differently, right? Now's a great hope. I'm glad the governor, for example, mentioned things like child care. I don't think the president said a thing about child care. But, you know, I was just in New Hampshire. I had a set of conversations at the YMCA child care facility there about the shocking percentage of people's income that so many people are paying now in order to get child care. We can talk about that. We can talk about what we're doing to boost wages. We can talk about what we're doing to make everyday life a little bit easier, your health care, obviously. These are the kinds of things that I think somebody, whether they're tuning into a State of the Union or just subjecting themselves to political coverage in general, most want to see is what's this going to do to make me better off? Yeah, I wonder what you think about how Democrats can effectuate that change in the future and, like, what the tactics are. Here's something that happened this week. As an example, Susan Rice, who was with you in the Biden administration, like, you're disturbed because she was basically, like, saying to corporations, hey, you're sucking up to Trump now. you're doing some of these deals now that are off the books, right, that aren't how business as usual works. And if you act inappropriately, we'll come for you next time, so be careful. Do you think that is the right approach, or do you think the right approach would be to try to get back to say, no, we're going to get back to business as usual. You're not going to get bullied by the White House again. I mean, look, we should make it clear that we're not going to behave. We would never behave the way this White House is. I do think there's a message, though, that needs to go out to these institutions that have not exactly been covering themselves in glory. You know, the companies that have folded, the law firms that folded, the universities that tried to play ball. And it's really just about what's in your own interest, not because we're out to come and beat you up, but just because of what happens when you fold these guys, which is, of course, they always come back for another pound of flesh. What we've seen from the handful of institutions that have stood up is they can get him to back off. Same as, I think, the lesson of the Indiana Senate Republicans, which is not a group I definitely at the beginning of last year would never have guessed that that would be one of the groups I would draw inspiration from or point to as an example. But you look at what they did in defying the president's demands on gerrymandering. The thing they figured out was if they all jumped together, they would be okay. And that's why you didn't just see a few defections. A majority of them stood together. if and when companies, universities, media firms, law firms, you name it, are prepared to do that, they themselves will be better off. Yeah. The president didn't talk much about affordability, kind of marks the idea of affordability. Abigail Spanberger did in the response. I wonder what your take is on this as, you know, somebody who's renowned as a communicator. I feel a little bit nervous that sometimes the Democrats' message on affordability feels a little stale, that it's like this magic amulet that you say, I'm going to make things more affordable, and now that's great, that's a good message because Trump's made things less affordable. But it gets more complicated than that, and that might work for November and this year. But going forward, how do you think Democrats can talk about that issue in contrast with Trump in a way that's credible and connects with people? Yeah, I mean, the comparatively easy part is pointing out how he's made things more unaffordable, right? So we can and should do that. We are doing that, whether it's the increase in health care premiums because of the Republicans' actions or, you know, things costing more at the store, all of that. That's kind of table stakes. But I do think it would be a terrible mistake if we do well in 26 and miss the bigger message, miss the bigger push, which is we need to paint a picture of how this country can be an easier place to live in. Yes, more affordable and also where your hopes and dreams as an American are likely to be fulfilled, the hope of owning a home. By the way, the hope of owning a home before you're 40, which is now the median age of a first-time homebuyer, the hope of being able to start a family. It used to be in the 20s, and now it's 40. The hope of being able to start a family, which so many people say is their young people say is their most important hope in life. And, you know, obviously, conservatives aren't known for talking more about family. Now's the moment for Democrats to say the biggest thing we can do to be pro family, pro your family, is that policies that will make it easier for you to start a family and afford it. That's child care for sure. That's things like paid family leave. It's also things like making sure we invest in pre-K, invest in schools. didn't hear a whole lot about public education from the president tonight either, obviously. Didn't hear anything about ICE. Can you believe that? He didn't talk about ICE. He talked about the immigrant deaths and stuff, but the mass deportation program he didn't talk about. Right. I mean, because the American people have already turned on him on it, I think. Yeah, so he did his usual work to try to demonize all immigrants. But he did do one thing which is interesting. It was a lie, of course, but he claimed that he was supporting legal immigration while closing off illegal immigration. That's what most Americans want to see, right? The important thing, of course, is not only have they gone way, way, way over the top in shutting down illegal immigration and brutalizing undocumented immigrants, but they also made it basically impossible to be here the right way, whether it's through asylum, refugee process, or just normal. the normal quotas that I think all of us need to be trued up because until we do that, there's this huge yawning gap between the level of immigration our law allows and the level of immigration our economy requires. I think an adult conversation about that would be welcome. But it's interesting that he kind of, again, is a lie, but it's interesting that he gestured toward that and claimed that was what he was doing. I agree with that. I think he's aware of his vulnerabilities on that. And I think he's also, you know, he's kind of aware of the vulnerabilities on corruption too. So, obviously, telling his story about fraud, that's the closest he came to acknowledging what's happening in Minnesota. He pardoned Chris Collins for insider trading, but he does want a law banning insider trading. It's an interesting, you know, it's a story. Yeah, I mean, J.D. Vance is going to have a lot of work to do. He's going to be the new fraud czar, right? I mean, first of all, he's got to figure out how these guys are getting pardons from the White House, the well-known fraudsters. You might have to look into the billion or two or three or whatever it is that the Trump family has made. I mean, I suppose, you know, one charitable way to look at this is, you know, given the fraud convictions of the Trump organization, Trump figured out that he should outsource the investigation of fraud to somebody else in the administration. But I'm a little worried about what's in store for J.D. Vance if he takes that mandate seriously. A couple of questions really quick. But first, I mentioned earlier that, you know, it's important, Democrats, to try to connect with the average American. Gavin Newsom this week, they made up such fucking lies about him. They made some bullshit up about how when he was saying that, you know, he's just like everybody else because he got a 960 on the SAT. And that made me wonder what you got on the SAT. Were you a 1580? I don't. It was good. I don't remember exactly. You can't remember your SAT score? No. Is that true? Yeah. I bet Justin knows that. Okay. We're going to circle back on that, and we froze. The thing, as you know, like these, I don't know, there's always a kind of a fresh drama of the day. But, you know, I respect him. A lot of people I've met, actually, in politics and outside of politics who have found a way through not just hard work, but like really original structuring of their thinking to turn dyslexia from a disadvantage into something that's actually part of how they've been empowered to think differently. So I was moved by his story about how he did that. Maybe it didn't come out right in one or in a particular format. format but uh look as part of somebody's life story i got nothing but respect especially in a field as like verbal uh right and as full of words as politics um anybody who maneuvers through that and and becomes a very effective politician has a ton of respect for me a classic story like a fake outrage thing that actually draws attention to something but humanizes them so i think kind of a backfire there okay really quick i'll let you go the listener questions um this is an important one from C. King. What is the realistic path for the Congress to end the President declaring war without congressional authorization? That's happening all over the place now. I don't believe that the 2002 Iraq AUMF qualifies for Iran in Venezuela. I'm not a lawyer, but I'm wondering what you think about that. Great question. I mean, it's kind of a meta question, right? Because it's how can Congress enforce its own enforcement, for lack of a better way to put it. I mean, look, I think the bottom line here is that Congress, which is led by Republicans, needs to decide whether it's actually prepared to constrain the president, which means not only saying or passing resolutions, but actually dropping the cover that they run for him if he is not complying with the law. We've got three branches, right? So there's only two other ones to look at. One is the courts and the other one is the Congress, each one pretty rickety in terms of its capability for checks and balances. But But, you know, the other thing to remember is that if one or both of those branches fail, the ultimate backstop actually is the people. And every time he backs down on matters big and small, whether it was on the original version of the tariffs last year or whether it's on my mind just because I was in New Hampshire where he just backed down on placing this big ICE detention facility because people stood up. When people stand up in a way that you just cannot ignore and cannot shout down, I think for the big picture stuff, if Congress fails us and the courts fail us, that's actually the ultimate backstop that we have. Last one from Michael Elder. Will Democrats be ready immediately to make policy the course correct when we retake the government? I like that. What would be the first thing that you'd want Democrats to do, and would it be bulldozing the new East Wing ballroom? So we've got to learn from them, right? They broke lots of things at once. We should be ready to build lots of things at once. And so, look, in the past, it was like, okay, what should our one priority be? Then we'll move on to the next priority. We're not going to have time for that. We've got to do major structural and institutional reform, get it underway on all the unsexy but super important stuff, like tackling money in politics, dealing with making Congress more representative, less corrupt. And at the same time, take the big policy swings and show people that we're working for them by actually delivering better health care and more affordable child care and all of the things that we care about as Democrats. I think it's going to be really important. There's not a lot I want to emulate out of this White House, but one thing they definitely do is lots of things at once. They aim big and do lots of things at once. We should be prepared to do the exact same in different ways. Yeah, sure. You can actually do things. All right. Thank you for staying up. Sorry for the technical difficulties. Secretary Mayer, player, father, Pete Buttigieg. We'll be talking to you soon, all right, brother? Take care. Thanks. 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So I was beforehand, I was like, have you seen the hockey players? Some of the photographers were around me. And they were like, no, we haven't seen them yet. And then I'm doing a Reddit AMA during it. And I all of a sudden hear USA and I look up and they're like right there and I'm like, oh my God. Okay, hold on. There's Joe. There's Joe. You can see him. Why are you looking at your computer when they're right there? Because that might have been like before I realized they were there. Did you clap for them? No. It's strict rules. No signs of approval. Tricked rules. You're not allowed to clap even for America? No. Wow. If you would have gotten kicked out for clapping for America, I would have defended you. I thought about it. I was like, what if I fist bumped him when he left? I'm not going to risk it. But so that was weird. And then in terms of the funniest things I saw, Tom Cole sleeping long time appropriate. So he's sitting there like like mouth open, eyes closed, like fully out. And then all of a sudden there's something that Trump says. And so there's a standing ovation, and he just goes and just gets up and starts clapping. I'm like, he had no clue what he was clapping about. He just woke up and just saw everyone doing it. Another funny thing, Tim had mentioned it before Secretary Pete came on, was John Hoven. I was looking down at him, and he was just like looking at pics, delete, looking at the pic, delete. He was just like, I got to clean up my phone space. And I just found that really funny. Okay. there was a lot of time to kill and then a very like serious but also funny moment was like when Al Green was holding the sign out it was one of those retractable ones like you see at stadiums and Mark Wayne Mullen who may have enjoyed himself prior to coming to the folder he runs up like all pissed and he like tries to snatch it and Green just goes and closes it and so he totally whiffs and almost falls on the seat And then he was, like, so embarrassed by it that this old man just made him whiff that he just turned around and stormed away. And, like, that was just genuinely funny. So those are my three funniest moments. That's pretty good. All right. Tim and I were talking, Lauren, about how unmemorable this was. Like, if you look back, there really wasn't, I don't know, there was, I'm actually having trouble recalling what actually happened. Is there audio working? I can hear you, Lauren. Give it one more try. Nope. No audio. We're having real audio issues this day. Anyways, I'll switch to Joe then, and then if Lauren can figure out our audio, we'll figure it out. But the one sort of confrontational moment beyond Al Green and his thing was the insider trading bit. And I want to play the video so that we can get a little bit of insight into what was going on here, because I actually want to know what the legislative prospects are for this. So let's play the video, and we will come back after that. We ensure that all Americans can profit from a rising stock market. Let's also ensure that members of Congress cannot corruptly profit from using insider information. They stood up for that, I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Did Nancy Pelosi stand up if she's here? Doubt it. Pelosi did stand up. Pass the Stop Insider Trading Act without delay. All right, can we stop the video there? So why have they not passed this act? So, two reasons. One, Mike Johnson has deliberately delayed it. This is going to make it a lot harder for him to delay it. Two, Democrats believe that this should not just apply to Congress, but also to employees at the White House, because you're seeing pretty open corruption on their end, and this just doesn't address it at all. So those are the two kind of impasses about it. Johnson had said he wanted to ban stock trading, and then he kind of backtracked. I think there's a lot more widespread opposition in the Republican conference over it than there is for Democrats. But it's mainly stalled because Johnson does not put it on the floor. All right. Well, let's see if Lauren from her mahogany book study. It's my cigar lounge. Okay, sorry. All right. Lauren, how are you? I'm doing well. How are you doing? Did you enjoy the speech? I had a great time. was exactly how I wanted to spend my evening. No, I mean, it was like, yeah, it was nothing memorable. I don't know. I was like, just looking at my notes, I'm like, nothing really stands out, which is fine. That's the top end analysis that we used to. What else do we have in the notes? Yeah. Part two and three. That was so, you know, I was folding some laundry while he was talking. He just, like, I mean, the whole thing was, but that's, like, fine. Like, we're just at this phase of, like, his administration where, I mean, what is there to say, you know? Yeah, I guess. He just seems, like, desperate through. And the dumb part. Yeah, well, not just Spanberger, but Omar, Al Green. I mean, they're the usual suspects. I mean, I think there's a lot of, like, even, like, for how they're going to protest. I mean, after last year, you probably recall last year, I guess it wasn't a real State of the Union address, that during Trump's speech, Democrats just, like, were totally roasted for their protesting. Remember, they were holding up, like, almost like the bingo cards that were, like, yeah, it was, like, kind of silly and, like, really captured this phase of where the Democratic Party was when they just, like, couldn't get their shit together. They didn't have a real plan for how to push back and be an organized oppositional party. There was obviously, I think, some efforts to be a bit more organized this time around. I know Jeffrey's kind of had some conversations with folks and said, you know, either sit silently through the speech or just don't show up. And there were a few counter rallies type things happening on the National Mall with people like Chris Murphy was there. So a number of Democrats didn't show up. But I think it's inevitable that you have kind of your few little shouts here and there, which I don't think is a bad thing. Now, shout out to Midas Touch, which apparently was broadcasting live from outside. Yeah. Yeah. It looks really cold. Absolutely not to. Really? It's really cold. Throw out, I'm not, the Stock Act is interesting because we do have an, do we still have the emoluments? That's still in there, right? Yeah. Can we lump that in with the Stock Act? Can we affirm the emoluments? Because I do think that Donald Trump's breaking that law currently. They're not going to do that. They're not going to do that? They're not going to do it. Who's the stock act banning for? We can trade Calci and predict it on Iran bombings from inside the White House. Prediction markets, I don't think they would be included in the current trading ban. Does the trading ban extend to the executive branch? No. Oh, how convenient. And that's why Democrats are opposed. You should ask the big Kelsey supporters in the Republican Party on the Hill, whether that should be included. I'd be interested in their point of view on that. A lot of members of the world don't know what a prediction market is, so that's a kind of... There are a couple of pros, though. There are a couple of pros. How reassuring. Who do you think are the ones who do know what it is? Mike Collins, he's a big crypto trader. And then, you know, you'd have to look at, like, the tech-savvy ones. There are a few of them. Brandon Gill. Richie Torres knows what it is, but that's because he wants to outlaw somebody. All right, let's play the Ilhan Omar clip because we were talking with Egan about this. She was the one who, I think at one point, she got up and left the chamber, just decided she had enough. There was a lot of that. Really? How many people left, really? Tons of Democrats. maybe a quarter of them. Not at once, but people were just getting up. You couldn't really pick up on that from the screen. Let's put Yola and Omar. Let's talk about that. And then I also want to talk about our girl, Kat Comack, afterwards, because she was the star of the show. But first, Yola and Omar. You should be ashamed of yourself not standing up. You should be ashamed of yourself. That is why I'm also asking you to end deadly sanctuary cities that protect the criminals and enact serious penalties for public officials who block the removal of criminal aliens. In many cases, drug lords, murderers all over our country. They're blocking the removal of these people out of our country. And you should be ashamed of yourself. Alright. So, what was going on there, Joe? Ilhan Omar was repeatedly yelling, you killed Americans. Rashida Tlaib was also doing a live fact check. Basically, where every time Trump said anything, she'd be like, lies, liar, lies. No, not true. Just shouting it? What was Mike Johnson doing with his mic there? I couldn't... I mean, he could be signaling to the sergeant at arms. So like when Al Green got up, sergeant at arms went straight to him because they had to almost drag him out the last time Trump gave a speech to Congress. And he had to be like, you got to go. And then he left. So maybe a signal to the sergeant at arms who just walks up and says, time to leave. But then they ended up leaving on their own at different times. I don't know. Is it helpful? I actually am fine with her doing it. Like, they did kill Americans. Like, they did. Yeah. I'm not like a pearl clutcher about some of this stuff. I think it would be kind of weird to not have at least one moment where you're sort of pushing back against Trump in some of this. You know, I think it's totally appropriate to do a little bit of that. Republicans certainly do the same shit when it's a Democrat that's up there. And especially on an issue like that, you know. if you're going to pick any issue to kind of go at him for, I think that that's a completely reasonable one to try and make a little bit of a moment. Yeah, I guess I'll push you on this and then we've got to swap you out for Cohen, but with this Van Berger speech, Tim and I were talking about this before Pete came on, but I mean, she went so hard at the ICE stuff in a way that I was it just sort of stood out that she's just like, you know, decided that that's the soft underbelly for Trump. does it signify something that I'm missing? I think it's, I mean, it's remarkable because if you had told me even just, you know, six months ago that that would be something that she would have really gone hard on in her speech, I would have thought you were crazy. This is just something that Democrats did not want to engage on, especially a Democrat like her, right? She's definitely positioned herself as this more moderate centrist in the party, He's someone who comes to issues of immigration, you know, with a sort of even hand. So I think it signals that the temperature has really changed a lot. I also thought the way she kind of went at, you know, he's enriching himself, I thought was interesting. And you can clearly tell from that speech that that's just going to be a key theme from Democrats in midterms. Yeah. Laura Ingram says that was the best speech he's ever given on Fox. Who? Spanberger? Laura, no, no, Donald Trump. Trump. Oh, Ingram said Trump. That was the best speech Trump's ever given? Ever given. For real. Until his next speech. Not a competitive category, I guess. I want some more commentary from on the web. I'd like to wrap up that, yeah. I've got to tell you, I know that we're to bring in Jonathan Cohn, who is going to offer some very important insight on health care. But I need to do some personal health care and to have one more glass of wine. And I got to say, a whole newfound respect out there to the streamers, you know? People sometimes, I have had some negative things to say about Hasan Piker recently, a lot of slander of clavicular online. But, like, the bros that are out there in the streets streaming 17 hours a day, that's endurance. Well, they're not doing anything. They're like, some of it, they're just sleeping, literally. They're typing. It's something to be said for it. It was great being here with everybody, though. I appreciate everybody. Jonathan Cohn is going to bring some real wisdom that I don't have to offer. I'll see you guys soon. Cheers. See you, Timmy. Thank you for your service. All right, we're going to bring in Cohn. We're going to put a nice bow in this. We have to have some brains come into the operation. There he is, folks. Jonathan, how are you doing, buddy? I was quickly Googling the latest research on whether wine is good for your health or not. So I'm doing fine. Let's do it. I think it's controversial, actually. Yeah, there's like, you know, the studies are going back and forth. It's very hard to keep track. I've lost track of that one. All right, we're going to keep this tight because it's midnight. I'm exhausted. Everyone else is exhausted. Joe's still in the capital and needs to go home. Let's go with John. Just what were like some of the big whoppers tonight that you noticed? I mean, it was the usual litany, right? You know, the economy is great. No, it's got all these problems. Manufacturing jobs are off. Actually, manufacturing jobs are down. You know, we're becoming more competitive. Actually, we're killing our research and development. You know, we're losing our competitive edge in industry. So, you know, there was all of that garbage on health care. You know, he said, you know, he talked about, you know, the one big beautiful bill. He figured, you know, this one big beautiful bill is great. It cuts taxes. Well, actually, you know, it cuts taxes for the wealthy people and it cuts 10 million people off from health insurance. You know, the big thing that I paid attention to was this pitch on prescription drugs, which he spent a fair amount of time on. you know, his big claim. I brought, you know, the lowest, most favored nation, lowest drug prices in the world. And not because I think anyone's going to listen to this speech or remember that from this speech. But this is their big pitch, right? And this is their, like, answer on affordability going into the campaign. It's their way of trying to deflect from a tax on their health care record. And I even think it has a sort of third layer, which is, you know, they've got to soften up their image somehow, right? with the immigration stuff. And, you know, health care sort of goes as a kind of caring issue. So it kind of gives you that caring and it kind of gives you a populist scene. And just, you know, I'm sure we'll be talking about this a lot and maybe writing about this soon, but we do not have the lowest drug prices in the world, not even close. Not close. Not even close. You know, he made these secret agreements with a couple of the drug companies. You can get to them through TrumpRx. For the most part, if you have insurance, it's not going to do you that much good. If you're paying cash, when you're paying cash for your drugs, there's a really good chance that you can already get a generic drug cheaper than what is available there. There's exceptions. He's done, you know, for the two big categories are the weight loss drugs and the fertility drugs because those tend to be ones that people pay cash even if they have insurance because a lot of insurance doesn't cover it, and you can get lower prices there. So, you know, that's a good thing. you know deserve some credit but this idea that he's made this giant progress on drugs it's just it's ridiculous it's absurd and it's a way to distract and cover up from the very real cuts to health care that are going through the system now and they're really going to really hurt people going forward all right let me get some audience questions and i'm going to kick it around the horn because they're fun uh michael nicholson 7813 car i'm going to go to you first what's the one thing the president didn't say tonight that he probably should have. Okay, well, that's hard for me to answer because if it were me, I would say you should explain why you're, you know, why did you cut off all the funding for global health to USAID and killing millions of people. All right, Lauren, you take this because there's no way Trump would ever say that. There's too many things. There's just, like, too many things. I mean, like, I'm going to say, he just needed to, like, acknowledge that some of the economic stuff in a real way but like he was never going to do that you know it's questions hard to answer because he's never he's never going to say the things he probably should have said no but you're right it's like the sort of bill clinton idea of like i feel your pain and he just couldn't yeah right yeah if this were a bill clinton speech yeah if this were a bill clinton speech it would have been narratively different right it would have been extraordinarily different and there would have been some piffits on some of the things. He would have signaled changes on the vulnerabilities. I mean, that's basic politics 101. Almost every other president would have done that except Donald Trump, right? I mean, we would have heard, you know, some kind of recalibration on immigration. There would have been some subtle acknowledgement that, oh, you know, maybe we did go a little too far, but it's really important to do that. I didn't get any of that. So, yeah. I've heard from this one's for you. Scott Tilden 528. I'm sorry, wrong one. Sorry, Scott, not going to answer that one. K.L. Gray, 6341. How can any GOP candidate think they can campaign with this? I think it depends. We saw there were several Republican candidates in there. Ken Paxton was up in the gallery. John Cornyn was down there schmoozing. They all want this. They all want this. They all think it's great. And even when they've lost elections with Trump, they come running back to him. So I think they're all going to think this is great. I don't think you'll see them run from him except in a handful of vulnerable House districts, maybe in Susan Collins' Senate race. I mean, maybe. I don't think even then. But I think they're going to run towards him, you know? Susan Collins is standing more than anybody down there. Okay, let's rephrase the question. Was there anything he did in this speech that a Republican in Congress said, yeah, like, we're going to run on that? Was it the call for the corporate tax cuts, the call for the personal tax cuts, the call for the insider trading bans, the call for some of the prescription drugs? I mean, there was some stuff he threw out there. Yeah, I got a look at some of the talkers that House Republicans and Senate Republicans were basically told to go and say to the press. And basically, it just repeated the stuff he said. all the prescription to Trump accounts. It's a big thing that they're going to lean into, even though it's probably not as valuable as just setting up a 529 plan for your kid, whatever. But that's a huge thing. He mentioned the Trump accounts. He mentioned Trump Rx. Anything that's Trump branded, they might not really phrase it that way. They might just say, oh, these are the Republican baby bonds, depending on where they're campaigning. But I think they're going to run with pretty much everything he said. All right, and then, Lauren, I guess the inverse goes to you. Like, what's the one thing you said tonight that Democrats are going to harp on? The total gaslighting about the reality of economic situations. I mean, it was just kind of mind boggling for him to be up there and say everything across the board is getting better and we're winning too much. And kind of that like weird mocking tone he used. I don't know if you remember that. That was like right at the beginning. I think that that's going to be the thing that they really do. It does strike me that he comes off right, Conn, like he comes off just detached. He does, he does he does come off to it, I mean he's completely I mean honestly I think what they'll jump on is they'll do the attacks, you know Democrats want to give away your money to illegal aliens, they don't care about waste and fraud, I mean if I was a Republican that's where I'd go, because you can't sell on the economy right, I mean you can't gaslight people And what they're saying, the best you can do is build up the Democrats as an enemy. It's scary taking your money, you know, the usual playbook, and I hope that you bring them down enough and, you know, you fight it to a draw. And then last thing, Kat Kamek, I hope I pronounced it correctly. She was the star of the show. I don't know if people saw her. She was sitting, why was she sitting on the Democratic side of the aisle? This is a congresswoman, a Republican congresswoman. She just went and took a seat, and she was right behind the Supreme Court, and it made no sense at all. Byron Donalds was kind of down there with the senators, but he was nowhere near as far into, I guess, right field as she was. She was just hooting and hollering. And John Roberts was just, like, depressed. Every time she jumped up, his head went down. Okay, did Tom Massey get a handshake with Trump or not? He moved in, and he was sitting next to Keith Self and Nancy Mace. So he moved in after, like, staking out the aisle, and then all of a sudden he just stopped and went in. Maybe he had to change a part of whether or not to pull a stunt. Okay. All right. I'm going to close up shop here. According to our feed, we've been doing this for three hours and 16 minutes. It's a lot. I don't think anyone needs any more of us unless you guys disagree. I don't need any more of me. Okay. Let me close by saying this. I want to send my kudos to Tim Miller for enduring almost the totality of this. I'm a little bit surprised he tapped out because he could have had the full shebang. But a big thanks to our audience for participating in this. This was a really successful feed. And thank you for enduring some of the technical snafus we had with Pete Buttigieg. The question I almost read but didn't from Scott Tilden, 528, was come to Texas in just the Democratic primary. I don't know what he meant by that, but he did say come to Texas. And, in fact, we are coming to Texas. We have live shows in Texas. I don't know if folks know this. We're going to be in Dallas on March 18th. We're going to be in Austin on March 19th. So we're coming to Texas. And folks should just look and try to get some tickets because a lot of shows are dope. Other than that, go to thebullwork.com slash events, I've been told. Other than that, Lauren, Jonathan, Joe. I can't believe you didn't get a gold medal, Joe. You should just finish it from someone's neck. Thank you guys for doing this. Everyone, thank you for listening to us. Subscribe to The Bulwark. 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