Long Speech About Pretty Much Nothing: Media Reports

By Michael Woyton

The best comment I saw this morning on social media was, “Is he still talking?”

Media reported that president donald j. felon* gave the longest State of the Union speech in history, even longer than his last one, for a total of 108 minutes.

Was there news in any of it?

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Only if you consider the president’s “upbeat vision of the U.S. economy” colliding “with the sentiment of Americans who remain anxious about their finances and feel they haven’t benefited from Trump’s policies,” according to the Associated Press.

The grifter-in-chief spent much of his rally-like address blaming the Democrats for what is wrong in the country — which is being run, in case you weren’t aware, by a Republican-led House, a Republican-led Senate and a Republican-led executive branch.

He blamed the left for rising health care premiums, not protecting Social Security and the affordability crisis.

The elderly golfer stuck to his long-time belief that tariffs are paid by foreign countries and that if he got his way they would replace income taxes, the AP reported.

He crowed about lifting “2.4 million Americans, a record, off of food stamps,” when the reality is the passage of his “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” that made the uber-wealthy uber-wealthier, actually made 2.4 million Americans lose access to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), PBS News reported.

So “lifting” or “being kicked off.” Potato potahto, neither of which 2.4 million Americans can any longer afford.

Even the Wall Street Journal editorial page, that bastion of conservatism, didn’t find much to impress, calling it “full of patriotic spectacle” and a highlight of the GOP’s greatest hits from 2025.

However, the WSJ didn’t stop there.

“But the main political news in the speech is that there isn’t much that Mr. Trump wants Republicans in Congress to do for the rest of this year,” the editorial board said.

They called it “striking” that the president “seems to have given up on getting anything done in this Congress,” emphasizing ideas with little chance of passing, such as the SAVE America Act, which would make it harder for many people to register to vote.

There was nothing more on immigration reform other than enforcement and nothing to justify increasing defense spending.

Faced with the possibility of a Democratic takeover because the midterms, trump used his speech to try to remind voters “why they shouldn’t risk returning Democrats to power,” the WSJ said.

Now it’s up to the Democrats to remind voters what the convicted felon actually accomplished.

As former congressman and anti-trumper Joe Walsh said on social media, “He took the strongest post-Covid economy in the entire industrialized world and singlehandedly fucked it up. He put lawless, masked federal thugs on our streets to terrorize immigrants & citizens. Nothing he said last night matters.”

What he said.

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* I’m following what the wannabe king declared on social media that he will only refer to the Supreme Court in lowercase because he has a complete lack of respect for them after the illegal tariffs ruling.

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Lead art: screen grab from Al Jazeera English via YouTube.