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On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump will deliver an unofficial “State of the Union” address to the United States Congress and the American people. It will be his first major speech since the start of his second presidential term.
In his last “State of the Union” speech, on February 4, 2020, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was so enraged that she tore up his written remarks. This act of defiance was highly inappropriate and unprecedented. Republican House Speakers never acted in such a manner.
Pelosi’s temper tantrum typifies how Democrats respond to President Trump. Instead of working with Trump to benefit all Americans, they engage in disgraceful outbursts of anger. Thus, Democrats have impeached Trump twice, and many party leaders have boycotted his speeches and both of his inaugurations.
On Tuesday night, several prominent Democrats will again boycott Trump’s speech. This response highlights the severe problems besetting the Democratic Party. Democrats seem to be incapable of crafting a winning message to appeal to the American people and to counter the Trump agenda.
While Democrats offer theatrical opposition, Trump has launched the greatest start to a presidential term in our nation’s history. In fact, over the past six weeks, the Trump administration has saved our union by acting with lightning speed to reshape the federal government.
In the last six weeks, President Trump has issued 79 executive orders covering a range of vital issues. For example, on Saturday, President Trump signed an executive order making English the official language of the United States, following the lead of more than 30 states.
The order states, “A nationally designated language is at the core of a unified and cohesive society, and the United States is strengthened by a citizenry that can freely exchange ideas in one shared language.” Of course, this is common sense, but it has never been done until President Trump acted. With the stroke of Trump’s pen, the United States joined 180 other nations worldwide with an official language.
This decision will not harm those Americans who have legally immigrated to our country. In contrast, it will help them succeed in our country, as outlined in the President’s executive order, “Establishing English as the official language will not only streamline communication but also reinforce shared national values and create a more cohesive and efficient society.”
Although Democrats will condemn the President’s decision about language, much of their fury has been directed at his efforts to empower the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by “special government employee” Elon Musk.
The impact of DOGE has been monumental. Due to its efforts, massive government waste, fraud, and abuse have been uncovered. Federal employees have been required to report on their activities for the previous week and return to the office. The second round of “pulse check” emails has been sent, requiring a response from federal employees.
This type of accountability is sorely needed and has been missing from the federal government. Americans will now learn how many federal employees are non-existent or non-performing.
Of course, Democrats are furious with these efforts. U.S. Congressman Maxwell Frost (D-FL) said, “Things are falling apart.” Really, Congressman? What is falling apart are the lies and the corrupt agendas of many bloated government bureaucracies.
By creating DOGE, President Trump is helping preserve the United States’ survival. Without serious action, the country is on the road to financial ruin. Currently, the national debt is $36.5 trillion, an outrageous amount that is not sustainable. Fortunately, due to bold action by DOGE, $155 billion in unnecessary spending has already been trimmed in just six weeks.
If this efficiency is continued for the remainder of the year, DOGE will save $1.34 trillion in wasteful spending, giving the Trump administration an opportunity to balance the federal budget for the first time since 2001.
Another important focus of the second Trump administration has been to establish border security. President Trump inherited a border that the reckless policies of the former administration had broken.
Incredibly, in only six weeks, President Trump has secured the southern border. Last month, there were just 8,326 illegal aliens apprehended at the Mexican border. According to Michael Banks, Chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, February was “the lowest month in recorded history.”
This is beyond astounding, for last month’s total is a 94% decrease from the 140,641 illegal border encounters that were recorded in February of 2024 and an 82% decrease “from December, President Joe Biden’s last full month in office.”
The reasons for this amazing success are varied and include President Trump’s strong messaging to illegal aliens, the addition of military personnel to bolster border security, the renewed construction of the border wall, the closing of migrant shelters in border states, the transfer of illegal aliens to facilities at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp in Cuba and the enhanced raids launched by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) throughout the country.
These aggressive measures have solved a problem that plagued our country throughout the Biden administration, creating one disaster after another.
Another major failing of the Biden administration was in foreign relations. President Biden inherited a peaceful world, but he helped create the conditions for war in both Gaza and Ukraine. Fortunately, President Trump is determined to end both wars peacefully.
Regarding the war in Ukraine, only President Trump has the capability to negotiate with both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Last Friday, Trump canceled a press conference and scheduled lunch and escorted Zelensky from the White House after it was clear the Ukrainian leader was not ready for peace.
Eventually, Zelensky reconsiders this after he realizes that President Trump is an uncommon leader who offers a lifeline for his country. Trump wants to save not only America but also the world from the catastrophe of World War III.
The Democrats did behave shamefully at the SOTU. Al Green in particular. He is the Dem’s rezident clownski. He needs to be censured. Please Al….more impeachment charges. If I were from the district in Texas he represents I would be campaigning now to get him thrown out. What exactly has he accomplished.
But the rest sitting on their hands, especially when Trump spoke to the mothers of murdered children at the hands of the Democrat Party owned illegal alien scumbags, was pretty much the final (I hope) nail in the party’s coffin.
If the Democrats ever get back into power I can only imagine what havoc they will raise to get back at the country.
Clearly stated. Send in the clowns, don’t bother – they’re here!
The actions of the Democrats in Congress have been despicable. Their actions have amounted to nothing more than childish acts of uncontrolled anger. One might also recall the petulant childish antics of N. Pelosi, when she ripped up the SOTU address a few years ago. That showed nothing but contempt for a duly elected POTUS, for civility of polite society, for our form of governance, and perhaps most of all, for We, the People. Now that impulsive “one-man band” antic apparently has been expanded to include the childish, inhumane, and absurd antics of whole party, now on full display for a candid world to see. That also should be a wake-up call to every American voter, that the DP has no vision, useful ideas, strategic plan (other than deconstructionism), virtue, or humanity. Perhaps it is time the American People to respond by voting that party onto the ash heap of history. Shame on them (DP).
Note: The Department of Government Efficiency is not … repeat not “newly created”. It was created by Barack Obama as the United States Digital Service. Obama let the mission creep away from computer security, and when Trump took over he merely repurposed it again and gave it a new name.
Democrats are mad because “DOGE will save $1.34 trillion in wasteful spending” and because “illegal border encounters [recorded] an 82% decrease” and because “Trump wants to save not only America but also the world from the catastrophe of World War III.”
Boy are they mad.
I LOVE the Donald!
In light of Mr Trump’s recent actions, it really seems rather appropriate that one of the meanings of Donald in Gaelic is “Ruler of the Deep”, in this context the Deep State (though where the Houthis are concerned, a bit of marine overlordship wouldn’t come amiss).
“several prominent Democrats will again boycott Trump’s speech” I hope by saying this it wasn’t being implied that my Soy-Boy Senator, Chrissy Murphy was in any way “prominent”. In his small minded World I’m certain he has Presidential ambitions. Good luck with that. Even his estranged wife can’t stand him never mind the majority of the voters across our nation.
Greetings America, and YES, OUR Presidents first 6 weeks in office, Have Indeed Saved Our Union! Thank you…
I wondered if the SOTU speech could be printed on Kevlar or something, so that Nancy P and the other fools could make bigger fools of themselves trying to tear it up. But that would be wasteful spending, and beside, the Dems are doing an excellent job of making Huge Fools of themselves.