Mad King Donald will speak tomorrow. And it will be nuts if any of the pundits who have forecasted Trump’s State Of The Union address are even half right. Maybe he should rename the speech State Of The Onion, because in all truth, that is a lot more accurate descriptor of the situation which you will hear Trump describe. He started out with a foreshadowing on Truth Social.
The “BIG LANDSLIDE” was 1.5%. Trump can’t comprehend that. That’s the problem. Any other president in his position would realize that he had massive opposition and act in a conciliatory manner. Not him. It’s not in his makeup. He’s made it perfectly clear that he’s a king and he intends to act like one. His own party is giving him valuable information. He’s choosing to call it fake.
His approval ratings are negative. Voters have turned on him and are demanding that he fix the economy. Trump has decided to ignore the voters, including his own supporters, and allowed Elon Musk to slash funding for government programs while laying off federal employees, including a substantial percentage of disabled veterans.
When House and Senate Republicans hold town halls, they are being increasingly asked about DOGE, or veterans losing their jobs, or benefits cuts, and more often than not the result is a viral moment.
When Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) was asked about DOGE firing disabled vets, he responded by ending his town hall and leaving. Marshall’s story is not unique. The situation has become so bad for Republicans that they have been advised to stop holding town halls because the Republican response to their own unpopular policies is to hide and hope that it blows over.
Even though Trump lives in a bubble where he thinks everything is going great, the rumblings of discontent in America’s grassroots were going to eventually reach him, and they did on Monday.
Trump posted on Truth Social:
Paid “troublemakers” are attending Republican Town Hall Meetings. It is all part of the game for the Democrats, but just like our big LANDSLIDE ELECTION, it’s not going to work for them!
The problem for Trump is that these people showing up at the town halls aren’t Democrats. They are Republicans. How do we know this? Because they are on video saying I’m a Republican, or I’m not a Democrat. […]
Donald Trump has been in office for less than two months. It is unprecedented in history for a popular movement that is showing signs of bipartisan rejection to have formed this quickly.
Democrats and non-Republicans are protesting, but Republicans have mastered their own form of protest, which is to show up at town halls of their representatives and senators and voice their disapproval. If they find the answers unsatisfactory, Republican voters start threatening to vote their people out of office.
Trump and Mike Johnson are currently in denial. The policymakers are refusing to see that their policies are angering the American people to the point of protest and rejection.
The fact that both Trump and Johnson felt compelled to dismiss the protests at Republican town halls as fake illustrates that they see what is happening on the ground but refuse to accept that political reality has changed.
Political reality has indeed changed and Trump cannot see it. He epitomizes the old adage, “There are none so blind as they who will not see.” He is being willful and believing that because he squeaked back into office he now has carte blanche to do whatever he wants and he’ll receive universal approval. Wrong and wrong. He’s going to get up and crow about his actions, the same actions that others are meeting with total disbelief.
On Tuesday, Trump gives his first State of the Union address for his second term in office. He will assume the podium in front of a joint session of Congress with no credibility whatsoever. People who are being honest—that includes Republicans in the House and the Senate—understand how horribly he undermined the world order last week. He abandoned longtime allies in the process, not only Ukraine but NATO allies who now face an unpredictable future. Trump will offer his comments Tuesday after confirming the view of those who believed him to be Putin’s toady.
Trump’s speech should have been one about making good on promises, like the one to bring down prices on day one of his administration. But he cannot do that. Instead, we will have tariffs this week. Tariffs, just a reminder, are simply taxes—taxes imposed on the American public. Trump has promised 25% tariffs on our allies, Canada and Mexico, and an additional 10% on China (unless he backs out again at the last minute, as he did when he previously threatened tariffs). Folks who claim to have voted for Trump because they wanted a better economy under Trump failed to read the room and Project 2025. As a result, we will all suffer.
Trump’s first State of the Union address should have also been about peace in Ukraine. Remember how he promised he would get that done before he even took office while he was on the campaign trail? Trump’s idea of peace, however, turns out to have been forcing Kyiv to take responsibility for Russia’s invasion, give up valuable resource rights, and accept permanent occupation. That didn’t go well, and you can watch it on video because Trump and Vance thought it was a good idea to bring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into the Oval Office to try and overpower him into submission, which didn’t work out for them as planned. The humiliation was theirs. Zelensky emerged as the hero and the champion for people everywhere who love peace and value freedom.
When Donald Trump takes the stage to deliver his address Tuesday night, the truth will be this: The state of our Union is…compromised.
It is compromised. We will have Comrade Krasnav going the SOTU, which will be a first. Krasnav, if this is news to you, is the code name which identifies Trump as a Russian asset — at least that’s the theory and from all that we’ve seen, I don’t think it’s a conspiracy theory. And I’m sure you recall both Eric and Don Junior braying about all the money pouring in from Russia, back in the 2016 election. I wonder why, if Trump isn’t in Putin’s pocket?
Trump loves the sturm und drang, and clearly understands its value, again attempting to overcome us with so much that we cannot focus on any of it. We fight back with knowledge, information, and civil discourse with our fellow Americans.
Sturm und drang there will be. Tariffs there will be, which means higher prices, inflation and most probably a recession. The only question now is how severe it will be. Half the country is in for a very rude awakening. The rest of us have been crying in the wildnerness for years, don’t do this, don’t let him back in office. Yet back he is and now the entire country is going to be in the FO stage. Sad but true. As Obama said, there is no liberal America and no conservative America, there is only the United States of America. And we’re all going to suffer together.
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Friends, if you can help us through these stormy days it would be appreciated. Although with what’s happening now, I don’t think it will be much longer before Democrats tune back in and get fully engaged. It’s about to hit the fan. Thank you. Ursula
If you want to live in a world of lies and delusions Donny, you go right ahead.
But remember reality bites.
Hard.
Should anyone be surprised at #DrowsyDonnie deciding that the townhall protestors are just Democrats? Let’s not forget this piece of bovine excrement is the one who first floated the idea that the violence during the insurrection was because of ANTIFA infiltrators and FBI and CIA plants, instead of it all being the result of #DrowsyDonnie’s rhetoric and refusal to tell the protestors to go home.