{"id":614822,"date":"2026-02-25T09:37:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/614822\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T09:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:37:27","slug":"trumps-home-run-state-of-the-union-2026-showed-exactly-how-crazy-the-democrats-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/614822\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s home-run State of the Union 2026 showed EXACTLY how crazy the Democrats are"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump hit it out of the park (again) with his 2026 State of the Union address,<\/a> perhaps his most remarkable speech yet.<\/p>\n

The frame was an unabashed celebration of America in its 250th year, hailing heroes from the Olympic hockey champions<\/a> to 100-year-old veterans<\/a> \u2014 \u00a0and with a close reiterating why the nation\u2019s best days are yet to come.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was the happy warrior we\u2019d asked him to be, with a strong clear message untainted by grievance \u2014 even as he expressed his disappointment with last week\u2019s Supreme Court ruling on tariffs and drew clear distinctions between his program and the opposition\u2019s.<\/p>\n

\"PresidentPresident Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the US Capitol on Feb. 24, 2026. POOL\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

He deftly drew out the lunacy of Democrats\u2019 positions<\/a> on illegal immigration, crime and trans issues \u2014 time and again flagging their obsession with peculiar \u201crights\u201d at the expense of common sense.<\/p>\n

And of course rightly delivered a powerful economic message.<\/p>\n

He flagged the inflation, wage stagnation and other horrors produced when Democrats ran Washington as the causes of the \u201caffordability\u201d crisis.<\/p>\n

He explained how Americans\u2019 lives are now getting better \u2014 rising wages, lower gas prices, fat tax rebates coming \u2014 and should keep improving.<\/p>\n

He got the opposition to rise in applause for some things \u2014 the gold medalists, the other military and civilian heroes he honored \u2014 then called out how they refused to stand even when he called for justice for Charlotte murder victim Iryna Zarutska.<\/a><\/p>\n

Follow The Post\u2019s live updates on President Trump\u2019s 2026 State of the Union address<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

How stark the line, a clear choice for voters in the midterms, when he declared that our government\u2019s first duty is to protect US citizens, not illegal immigrants \u2014 and Democrats sat silent as Republicans cheered.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese people are crazy,\u201d he rightly declared as he pointed to the left side of the chamber.<\/p>\n

He had policy brags \u2014 Trump accounts for kids, lower prescription drug prices, victories over crime in DC and nationwide \u2014 and big themes like cheering religious revival and denouncing political violence as he honored the late Charlie Kirk.<\/p>\n

He had poetry, particularly in his closing peroration.<\/p>\n

He innovated a whole new kind of State of the Union drama,<\/a> not just recognizing his guests but having many enter on cue, awarding medals and other signal honors as appropriate and leading the room in both applause and profound sympathy.<\/p>\n

Even in a record-long speech, he couldn\u2019t cover everything he and his team are doing for the country nor all the reasons to expect a brighter future this year and in the long term.<\/p>\n

Yet he gave listeners good cause to believe that the state of the Union is indeed strong \u2014 and solid reason to know which party deserves the credit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump hit it out of the park (again) with his 2026 State of the Union address,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":614823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,69,79,4691,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,1269,249798,117762,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-614822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-donald-trump","tag-economy","tag-editorial","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-opinion","tag-speeches","tag-state-of-the-union","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116130601186012811","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}