Donald Trump's triumphant speech

Prior to Tuesday night's State of the Union Address, aka SOTU Adress, pundits across the political spectrum opined that President Trump faced a difficult task in delivering this SOTU Address without hitting some person's or group's wrong nerve. After watching President Trump's speech from start to finish and after reading this entire transcript of his speech, I'd say President Trump's speech was triumphant, defiant and patriotic. At times, President Trump's speech hit all the right nerves.

Early in the speech, President Trump set the tone for the speech, saying "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." President Trump told the citizens of the U.S. that he'd inherited a mess but that he'd already started fixing the mess.

At that point, some low-decibel grumbling could be heard. Then, President Trump said "Today our border is secure. Today our border is secure, our spirit is restored, inflation is plummeting, incomes are rising fast, the roaring economy is roaring like never before, our enemies are scared, our military and police are stacked, and America is respected again, perhaps like never before. After four years in which millions and millions of illegal aliens poured across our borders totally unfettered and unchecked, we now have the strongest and most secure border in American history, by far. 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. Deadly fentanyl across our border is down by a record 56% in one year. In the 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 125 years. In 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."

Lots of people think that this election will be won on economics. I think the midterms will be won as much on cultural issues as by economics. Check this out:

The Biden administration and its allies in 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 1.7%. Gasoline, which reached a peak of over $6 a gallon in some states under my predecessor and was, quite honestly, a disaster, is 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 $1.85 a gallon for gasoline, the lowest in four years, and falling fast.
Listen to how long this standing ovation is and what caused it:

Call me crazy but it sounds like the GOP is fired up.

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