This content critically analyzes and refutes claims made in President Trump's State of the Union address, arguing that his portrayal of a booming economy and secure elections is a distortion that benefits the wealthy while harming the majority of Americans and undermining democratic principles.
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Thanks very much for joining me. Uh, let
me say a few words about some of the
lies and distortions that President
Trump made last night in his State of
the Union speech. And do not worry,
unlike Trump, I'm not going to go on for
an hour and 47 minutes. A lot shorter
than that.
Last night, as you recall, President
Trump stated, quote, "Members of
Congress and my fellow Americans, our
nation is back. bigger, better, richer,
and stronger than ever before." End
quote. Well, I do have to admit that
Trump got it half right. He and his
billionaire friends are indeed richer
than ever before. Since he has been
president, as a result of an
unprecedented level of kleptocracy,
Trump's family is now $4 billion
wealthier than before he was elected.
Not to mention the $400 million plane
that he got as a gift from the royal
family of Qatar. Further, the
billionaire class as a whole is doing
unbelievably well under Trump.
Since his election, billionaires have
seen a $1.5
trillion increase in their wealth. That
is rather extraordinary.
The result, we now have more income and
wealth inequality than at any time in
the history of our nation. But while the
richest people are doing extraordinarily
well, surprise, surprise, here is what
Trump did not talk about.
Today in America, over 60% of our people
are living paycheck to paycheck with
millions of Americans struggling to put
food on the table, pay for housing, pay
for health care, pay for child care, pay
for education, and pay for the other
basic necessities of life. 60%
of our people living paycheck to
paycheck. Trump just forgot to talk
about that. In America today, over 20
million households are spending more
than half of their limited incomes on
housing and nearly 800,000 are homeless.
In America today, 21% of our seniors are
trying to survive on less than $15,000
a year. Try doing that. Try surviving on
$15,000 a year. And nearly half of older
workers have nothing in retirement
savings. In America today, hundreds of
thousands of bright young people cannot
afford to go to college and over 40
million are struggling with outrageous
levels of student debt. In America
today, we have one of the highest rates
of childhood poverty of almost any major
country on earth. Now, if that is the
booming economy, the greatest economy in
the history of humanity, if that's what
Trump is talking about, God help us.
Further, on another issue, Trump said
last night that he wants to quote, "Stop
illegal aliens and others who are
unpermitted persons from voting in our
sacred American elections. that cheating
is rampant. End of quote, says Donald Trump.
Trump.
For a start, I do find it interesting
that Trump talks about our sacred
elections. This is the same man who
after the 2020 election was caught on
the phone pressuring Georgia's Secretary
of State to quote find 11,780
votes, end quote, so he could overturn
the result. I guess that election in
Georgia was not too sacred. This is the
same man who provoked a violent
insurrection on January 6th, 2021
in order to overturn an election that he
lost and to stay in power. And despite
more than 60 court cases to the
contrary, he continues to claim that he
won the 2020 election and that it was
stolen from him.
This man who claims that our elections
are sacred has still not said that he
won't run for a third term despite the
fact that it is blatantly
unconstitutional. The constitution
limits individuals to two terms.
But here is the truth about our elections.
elections.
Despite 154 million Americans in 50
states voting in the last election,
election fraud in our country is
extremely rare. Even the Conservative
ProTrump Heritage Foundation's database
of election crimes listed only 24
instances of non-citizens voting in US
elections from 2003 to 2023.
Hundreds of millions of voters in a
21-year period,
24 instances of non-citizens voting.
That is not exactly a crisis. But that
big lie that millions and zillions of
undocumented people are voting, that big
lie is the foundation of the SAVE Act.
Legislation that would effectively
require every American to produce a
passport or birth certificate to
register to vote. So I just stop a
moment. Do you have a passport? Some of
you do. Many of you don't. Do you have
your birth certificate? Frankly, I
don't. How are you going to get that
birth certificate? Well, if you don't
have a passport, you don't have a birth
certificate, you ain't going to be
registered to vote. That would
disenfranchise millions and millions of
people. It would disenfranchise millions
of women who change their last names
after marriage and whose documents no
longer match, as well as millions of
other Americans who simply do not have a
passport or a birth certificate.
And then there is the issue of immigration
immigration
that Trump talked about last night where
he bragged and I quote, "We are
deporting illegal alien criminals from
our country at record numbers and we're
getting them the hell out of here fast."
End quote. Well,
not quite the truth. The reality is that
less than 14% of those arrested by ICE
in Trump's first year back in office had
violent criminal records. 86%
did not.
But the truth is, as we have seen on our
TV screens, is that ICE is occupying and
terrorizing American cities, rounding up
American citizens and asylum seekers,
kicking down doors without due process,
sending 5-year-old children to detention
centers, and illegally deporting people
to countries to which they have never
ever been. horrifically.
We also saw the videos of ICE and Border
Patrol agents murdering Renee Good and
Alexander Petty in cold blood.
Last night, President Trump said that he
is working to drive health care costs
way down. Well, could have fooled me.
Trump's so-called big beautiful bill is
throwing 15 million Americans, lowincome
and workingclass people off the health
care they have through a $1 trillion cut
to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act.
By the way, the purpose of that cut is
to provide a trillion dollars in tax
breaks to the 1%.
This year, as a result of Trump's
actions, health insurance premiums have
doubled have doubled on average for 20
million Americans in the Affordable Care
Act. Now, that's a pretty strange way to
be driving health care prices down and
improving healthcare.
Last night, Trump also claimed that he
is ending the wildly inflated cost of
prescription drugs like has never
happened before. end of quote. Well, not
quite. This year, the pharmaceutical
industry announced that it would be
increasing increasing prices on over 850
prescription drugs in America. And
despite what Trump says, we still pay by
far the highest prices in the world for
prescription drugs.
Let me conclude by saying this. The
American people increasingly understand
that Donald Trump is a pathological liar
who represents the interest of the
billionaire class and who is rapidly
moving our country toward authoritarianism.
authoritarianism.
The American people also understand that
when we stand together and not let Trump
and his friends divide us up, and we saw
this in Minnesota, and we're seeing this
in states all over this country, when we
do that, we can and will create the
nation we know we can become, and that
is a country based on the principles of freedom,
freedom,
justice, and democracy.
Let us go forward together. Thank you
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