I didn’t see it…..
Below is from people who did…..
The guy went long …..Almost two hours….
I get the impression it wasn’t to well received…..
Trump dismisses affordability concerns in State of the Union
Sometimes, presidents use their State of the Union to offer a laundry list of poll-tested policy proposals that might assuage Americans that their concerns are being addressed. President Trump chose a different tack Tuesday night.
The big picture: The president is sticking to a boastful message about the state of the economy heading into the midterms, aiming to persuade voters that these are the best of economic times.
- It follows a series of proposals floated by the president and his allies, especially around housing and borrowing costs, meant to address Americans’ deeply negative views on affordability.
- “The roaring economy is roaring like never before,” Trump said Tuesday night.
State of play: Remember the president’s pitch to cap credit card borrowing costs at 10%? It didn’t make the cut in his 10,600-word address.
- He also didn’t mention his administration’s use of mortgage bond purchases by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to try to push down mortgage rates.
- On housing, however, he did repeat a call for Congress to block large institutional investors from buying up single-family homes, an idea popular on the left but less so among the Republicans who control Congress.
- He was dismissive of Democrats’ emphasis on the word affordability, saying, “Their policies created the high prices. Our policies are rapidly ending them,” and that “prices are plummeting downward.”
Zoom out: Rather than present an I-feel-your-pain message paired with a litany of policy proposals, he argued that things are looking great….
More @ Axios….
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Katie Rogers NY Times
It was spectacle as survival strategy.
In his State of the Union address, President Trump didn’t bother to introduce a raft of new policies — unusual in a midterm election year with control of Congress on the line. He did not seem concerned with making the case that he gets it when it comes to the issue Americans are most worried about. “Affordability,” he said, was part of a “dirty, rotten lie” perpetuated by the Democrats.
Instead, with the slashing style of a natural campaigner and the instincts of a onetime reality television producer, he spent the better part of two hours baiting the ranks of incensed Democrats in the chamber and endeavoring to define them to the electorate as “sick,” unpatriotic and utterly out of step with the values of most Americans.
“These people are crazy, I’m telling ya, they’re crazy,” Mr. Trump said at one point, while relaying the story of a young person who had been forced to undergo a gender transition. “Boy oh boy, we’re lucky we have a country with people like this — Democrats are destroying our country, but we’ve stopped it just in the nick of time.”
Going into the speech, Mr. Trump knew that he needed to use it to maneuver out of a politically treacherous moment for himself and his party. A majority of Americans oppose how Mr. Trump is pursuing his anti-immigration agenda, and more than 70 percent of them think his priorities are in the wrong place. His approval rating has plummeted to 41 percent.
His solution was to wrap himself in the imagery of American heroism with staged asides throughout the speech while throwing the blame for every problem, from the security of elections to the state of the economy, back on his opponents…..
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Pay Attention to What Trump Didn’t Say
Hint: All the stuff that makes America great.
Every day from now until November 3, the big question for Donald Trump is this: Did he do anything today to prevent the galactic midterm shellacking that seems to be hurtling toward his GOP thanks to his deeply unpopular administration?
Yesterday, the answer was “no.” Despite its record length, nothing in Trump’s excruciatingly bloated and aimless State of the Union address will do a thing to stanch the bleeding of his popular support. His best attempt to manufacture a big moment came when he ordered Democrats in the chamber, whom he had been hectoring and scolding throughout the speech, to “stand up and show your support” if they agreed that “the first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.” When Democrats declined to participate in the song-and-dance, MAGA observers thundered that they’d revealed themselves to be double agents all along: “The entire Democrat Party disqualified itself from government service in this one exchange,” Stephen Miller rage-tweeted….
William Kristol, Andrew Egger, Racheal Janfaza, AND JIimSwift
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William Kristol
Here are a few terms that President Trump never uttered last night:
Equality.
Rights.
The rule of law.
The Constitution. (Trump mentioned the Declaration of Independence only once, in passing, despite this being its 250th anniversary.)
Republic (though Trump referred to Republicans six times).
Democracy (though Trump attacked Democrats nine times).
Immigrants (“immigration” was used three times, in each case negatively. And when Trump claimed—falsely—that he supports legal immigration, he referred to people “coming in,” but didn’t call those people “immigrants.”)
Other terms central to the meaning of the United States were used very sparingly.
Opportunity appeared only once (“And here is one more opportunity to show common sense in government”), but never in its broad thematic meaning.
Justice was used twice, but both times in the sense of punishment (ensuring justice for a wrongdoer), rather than as a purpose of government or a feature of our society….
More @ The Bulwark
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What the F Was That?!
A Very Special SOTU.
1. Little Lies
Wouldn’t it be fun to do an actual fact check of Trump’s State of the Union speech? It would go something like this:
When I spoke in this chamber 12 months ago, I had just inherited a nation in crisis, with a stagnant economy, inflation at record levels . . .
🥊 Facts:
- GDP growth in Q4 2024 was 1.9 percent. GDP growth in Q4 2025 was 1.4 percent. The economy is—just as a factual matter—worse now than when Trump took over.
- In December 2024, the inflation rate was 2.9 percent. In December 2025, the inflation rate was 2.7 percent.
- OMG stop the ride, I want to get off.
That’s just the first minute. Axios tapped out with this limp-wristed shrug of euphemism:
Trump counterpunched with his trademark fact-challenged hyperbole—$18 trillion in foreign investment, “plummeting” food prices, and drug cost reductions of “300%, 400%, 500%, 600%.”
Ah, yes. The president of the United States employs fact-challenged “hyperbole”™. What a scamp! So much nicer than saying:
You should not take any claims from the president at face-value because they are mostly provable lies.
But they’re worse than lies, aren’t they?
More @ The Bulwark….
image…..This is your mirror, America…Kenny Holston-Pool/Getty
You should have watched and suffered along with the others who did. I basically live Tweeted it.
Of course, this is a collection of opinions by those who do not like Trump, just like all 8 people who will likely read this are people who do not like Trump.
Those who like Trump thought it was the greatest speech ever and that the Democrats were humiliated and owned for all time.