Bill Clinton no longer has the dubious honor of giving the longest address to a Joint Session of Congress.
That distinction now belongs to the Liar and Felon in Chief.
The remark that received the most laughs from Democrats was his comment that the days of being governed by “Unelected bureaucrats” were over. They all pointed at Elon Musk.
In an over 90-minute speech, Donald Trump made lie after lie after lie.
Democrats brought signs that read false. They raised them a lot in this address. Many of them walked out during the address. None of their leadership helped escort Mr. Trump when he entered the House. They all bolted after he finished his last sentence.
Among the many falsehoods Trump uttered were:
- Biden’s economy was a disaster.
- Inflation was an all-time high.
- There are people over 250 years old getting Social Security benefits.
- Twenty One Million People crossed the border illegally during the Biden/Harris Administration.
- DOGE is finding billions in fraud.
- His first term was a success with the greatest economy ever invented.
- His first six weeks have been the most successful of any President in United States History.
- The country is having an energy emergency.
- The CHIPS and Science Act is bad for the country.
- His economic program will balance the budget.
Many moments probably made many reasonable people gag. Chief among them was:
- Mr. ‘I enabled the January 6, 2021 Domestic Insurrectionists and pardoned them’ is a friend of law enforcement.
- The Panama Canal and Greenland belong in United States possession.
- Talking about getting rid of supposed “woke agendas” when looking at his now all white men Joint Chiefs of Staff after he fired the Black Chairperson and Woman Navy Chief.
- Going after the LGBTQ Community.
- His comments that there were millions of people over 100 years ago receiving Social Security payments.
- Withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accords and the World Health Organization.
- That God saved him from assassination last July.
- He won a great election mandate.
- Calling Elizabeth Warren “Pochantas”
- Clapping for himself like Joseph Stalin used to do.
Amazingly, there were actually a couple of moments where Trump did excel. His honoring the little boy, 13-year-old DJ Daniel, by making him a member of the Secret Service was very good. So was telling the young man who he told had been accepted into West Point. So was honoring the family members whose relatives were victims of violent crimes.
The closing paragraph was actually well done. Clinton, Obama, or Biden could have delivered something very similar. Proposals to create a missile dome and resurrect American Shipping, if accurate, make sense.
Everything else was a tragic loss of time that the American People could have found better use for.
Arizona Democratic Congressional Reaction to the Trump Lie A Rama included these posts:
Among Yassamin Ansari’s first post was:
Her second post, after walking out of the address, shows Representative Ansari describing her disgust with Trump’s remarks:
In her comments, she said:
“I just walked out of Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress. I am absolutely devastated by the bullshit that I just heard. Everything from incessant dehumanizing of immigrants to trans people to the LGBTQ+ Community to outright lies about who is going to benefit from the tax cuts to come. And the fact that Republicans are cutting Medicaid for so many of my constituents. I walked out of the address. I couldn’t hear any more of it. I was proud that my guest tonight, Yadira Garcia, a teacher and a DACA recipient in the district. I was proudly wearing my protect trans kids pin and very unfortunate to see the President of the United States, talk about and scapegoat so many of my constituents in Arizona’s Third District.”
Greg Stanton posted:
Senator Ruben Gallego posted:
Senator Mark Kelly issued a statement that read:
“Arizonans are struggling right now with high prices at the grocery store and at the gas pump, and President Trump’s response is to give huge tax breaks to rich people on the backs of hard-working Americans.
“President Trump didn’t explain how he’ll make it easier for working people to get ahead, instead he doubled down on tariffs that are going to jack up prices even further and kill Arizona jobs.
“He said he’d get rid of the bipartisan CHIPS Act which has created thousands of great-paying jobs in Arizona.
“Tonight, we heard more excuses and no real plan to lower costs for families.”
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The Dems are allowing convicted rapist Don Trump’s administration to self destruct in anticipation of taking back congressional seats in 2026.
That seems to be their only plan, let the MAGAts who f’ around find out.
The problem with this is the pain is also being felt by non-MAGAts.
Families and children and the world’s most vulnerable people will suffer.
This is a moral failing by the Dems and a violation of their oath. They are not serving Americans, they are serving themselves.
This is a losing strategy. If they don’t stand up they don’t get credit in 2026.
Waiting for the anticipated self-destruction seems pretty lazylike behavior from Democratic leadership. Relative silence while the chaos and destruction rolls on will only allow the Repugs to loudly & falsely define the Democrats with right wing media’s assistance. The best the current Democratic strategy will yield is narrow majorities in the House & Senate while the Repugs are handing them golden opportunities for a strong filibuster proof majority in the Senate and major gains in the House.
Bottom line…Schumer and Jefferies are not cut out to be “wartime” leaders and need to go. And replaced by those who are. Leaders like Jamie Raskin in the House and Senator Professor Elizabeth Warren in the Senate.
From Blueprint, a liberal polling firm:
A whopping 40 percent of respondents said that the Democratic Party doesn’t have any strategy at all for responding to Trump. Meanwhile, 24 percent of respondents said that the party did have a strategy but that it wasn’t working, and only 10 percent of respondents said that it had a good strategy.
The poll of 1,383 registered voters was conducted between February 16 and 17. Since then, the Democrats’ means of resistance have only gotten more confused.
Of course the poll was before Dems at Trump’s speech held up ping pong paddles.
First, John Who Drives a Luxury Car on Taxpayer Money Kavanagh, read the comments.
You’re not breaking any news.
Second, is there anything Arizona is First in, after decades of abuse from you and your party? Maybe one of the polling firms you quote can help sort that out for you.
Third, you’re an idiot.
Convicted rapist Donald Trump said 8 million US taxpayer dollars had been spent on transgender mice.
It was actually spent on “transgenic mice”, which are genetically modified little critters used to study medicine for things like asthma.
They are not tiny drag queens hellbent on getting into little girls bathrooms.
There was a guy there in makeup and hairspray and high heels (Trump wears lifts for some weird reason, that’s why he leans forward all the time) who has bragged about pervin’ on underage girls while they undress, who was Jeff Epstein’s BFF for ten years, and has actually been convicted of rape. He was standing in front of gay vampire Peter Theil’s boy JD Vance and a Mike Johnson, a grown man who keeps tabs on his son’s erections with a smart phone app, and shares his own erection data with said son.
Nothing creepy about that! Wholesome to the bone! And dad telling the public about his tracking junior’s teenage rager’s will in no way come back to cause said son to spend thousands on therapy later in life.
Oh well, wait until MAGA finds out about trans-fats in movie theater popcorn!
Also, gosh, Dems were bidding on auction items or something with cute adorable little paddle signs. That’s a lesson Trump won’t soon forget! I bet he’s still smarting from that beat down!
So harsh!
BTW, no offense intended to gay vampires, a fabulous undead creature of the night’s gotta’ eat, you do you, I just don’t think MAGA knows who they’re supporting, and would be supporting someone else if they did. But Peter Theil is a billionaire, and Dems don’t want to offend the money people.
The reaction of Trump’s supporters and other Trumpkins –
“deliberate cognitive dissonance. ”
Instead of fact checking his entire speech, it might be simpler to just list when he told the truth.
That list is far shorter.
Of course, he only tells the truth in order to make a falsehood more credible.