Trump says he “won affordability,” frames it as a “Biden-created” problem in lieu of offering real policy to tackle it.
Beneath the words “In God We Trust” etched on the wall behind him and amid the lowest ratings of his second presidency, Donald Trump delivered his annual State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol Tuesday night to a divided House floor and a polarized America.
Tightly gripping the sides of the rostrum in front of him, Trump told lie after lie sandwiched between glowing review after review of himself. Sowing as much division as he could in two hours, surpassing his prior record at the mic on the floor of the House of Representatives, Donald Trump fed a public hungry for accountability over affordability his usual menu of noting burgers. The self-proclaimed “Affordability president” said he had “won affordability,” blaming former President Joe Biden for the problem he previously labeled a Democratic “hoax.”
Outside of a shouting match with Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) and seeing Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) escorted out of the House chamber for carrying in a sign Trump pretended to ignore that said, “Black People Aren’t Apes” in protest of Trump’s racist post at the top of Black History Month of former President and first lady Barack and Michelle Obama as apes, there was nothing new. It was the same old circuitous smoke and mirrors of the circus most people expect from the 47th president by now.
Never providing any details regarding policies designed to help Americans with rising costs or giving any remarks regarding his promise to end the war in Ukraine on day one (last year he made the claim that it was all a joke), Donald Trump managed to stand ten toes down on the dais that his only interest is in playing in our faces.
The political pugilist stays enamored in the grift of being recognized as the only one who can do it, even if he didn’t do it. Trump wants all the accolades that come with solving problems that he doesn’t solve.
Donald Trump wants so badly to be a king, a god, someone in total control of everyone and everything. And if we don’t do something soon, something quickly, Trump’s sleight of hand to treat Americans badly while trying to convince us that we’re winning when it comes to his failed economic and immigration polices is going to get more seriously and scarily out of hand.
Gleefully celebrating the end of DEI, Donald Trump pulled as many rabbits out of his MAGA hat that he could in the name of distracting us from the fact that he is all up in those Epstein Files, per the recent reveal that the Department of Justice withheld documents that contained accusations from a woman against Trump and that the Supreme Court ruled that his emergency tariff policy is illegal.
If there are any takeaways from the political theater on display, it should be that Trump is hellbent on the takeaway: the taking away of the inalienable rights of all Americans via his diabolical and systematic dismantling of our democracy. It should be that Trump’s intent is to take as much out of our pockets and from America’s coffers as he can as he steadily works to enrich himself. And it should be that this man will stop at nothing to get exactly what he wants at any cost and by any means necessary.
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