by Adam Lynch | February 25, 2026 - 6:29am | permalink
Following are the five most manic moments from Trump's address:
1. Al Green escorted from the chamber before it even gets good and started.
Holding a sign declaring that “Black People Aren’t Apes,” Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) was escorted from the chamber before Trump’s State of the Union speech really began.
Green’s sign, and his subsequent removal, stemmed from a video posted by Trump on his Truth Social account featuring a racist depiction of Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. At the end of the 62-second video the Obamas' faces appear on apes' bodies for about 1 second as The Tokens' song 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' plays.
Trump later removed the post, but never apologized for the inflammatory post, not even when asked by reporters.
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) attempted to pull Green’s sign away on his way out, and Trump made no mention of the lawmaker’s removal nor an apology.
2.Trump claims other countries were “happy” being tariffed by tweet
Trump was determined to defend his illegal tariffs, even after the conservative Roberts Supreme Court dismantled his ability to wield them through emergency orders.
“These tariffs took in hundreds of billions of dollars to make great deals for our country, both economically and on a national security basis. Everything was working well. Countries that were ripping us off for decades are now paying us hundreds of billions of dollars. They were ripping us so badly. You all know that. Everybody knows it. Even the Democrats know it. They just don't want to say it. And yet these countries are now happy and so are we. We made deals, the deals are all done and they're happy,” Trump claimed.
“… And then just four days ago, an unfortunate ruling from the United States Supreme Court, it just came down,” continued Trump. “Very unfortunate ruling. But the good news is that almost all countries and corporations want to keep the deal that they already made. … knowing that the legal power that I, as president, have to make a new deal could be far worse for them, and therefore they will continue to work along the same successful path that we had negotiated before the supreme court's unfortunate involvement.”
In actuality, the European Commission has slammed the brakes on U.S. trade negotiations after Trump made his retaliatory announcement of blanket tariffs in the aftermath of the court ruling.
Trump also claimed, incorrectly, that “Congressional action will not be necessary,” despite Congress being required to extend them beyond their short lifespan.
He also claimed, incorrectly, that his tariffs are funded “by foreign countries,” despite claims from U.S. consumers, farmers, and businesses saying they pay them.
3. Trump blasts Democrats for beating him to death on ‘affordability’
Trump clearly remains sore that Democrats are getting such good traction out of high food and service costs this year, as indicated by their successful wins in off-year elections. Trump ranted that Democrats’ campaign arguments are effective while blaming them for causing the high costs to begin with.
“[N]ow, the same people in this chamber who voted for those disasters suddenly use the word ‘affordability’ –a word. They just used it. Somebody gave it to them, knowing full well that they caused and created the increased prices that all of our citizens had to endure.”
“You caused that problem. You caused that problem,” Trump said, looking to Democrats in the audience. “They knew their statements were a lie. They knew it. They knew their statements were a dirty, rotten lie. Their policies created the high prices,” Trump said before launching into claims that he is reducing inflation, despite reports showing no meaningful shift.
“Our policies are rapidly ending [inflation.] We are doing really well. Those prices are plummeting downward. … The cost of chicken, butter, fruit, hotels, automobiles, rent is lower today than when I took office by a lot. And even beef, which was very high, is starting to come down significantly. Just hold on a little while. We're getting it down, and soon you will see numbers that few people would think were possible to achieve.
4. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) calls Trump a “murderer” to his face.
Trump was in the middle of haranguing Democrats for refusing to stand and cheer him on his more controversial claims, when a shouting match erupted across the chamber.
“You should be ashamed of yourself for not standing up,” Trump said. “You should be ashamed of yourself. That is why I'm also asking you to end deadly sanctuary cities that protect the criminals and enact serious penalties for public officials who block the removal of criminal aliens. In many cases, drug lords, murderers all over our country.”
“You’re the murderer,” Omar shouted from her seat, likely referring to Trump’s politicized Homeland Security force causing the deaths of multiple residents in Minnesota. Omar’s outburst prompted the president’s supporters to chant to drown her out with shouts of “USA! USA! USA!”
“… They're blocking the removal of these people out of our country. And you should be ashamed of yourself,” Trump said over the noise.
“You should be ashamed,” Omar blasted back with an accusatory point, joined by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) who sat beside her.
5.Trump accuses Democrats of cheating in elections, again without evidence.
Trump made a point to try to hold Democrats accountable for not supporting new ballot restrictions that could impact voters across the nation.
“You need to show two original forms of ID and a Social Security card,” Trump said, referring to hiring practices in New York City. “Yet [Democrats] don't want identification for the greatest privilege of them all: Voting in America.”
Trump claimed “both Republicans and Democrats overwhelmingly agree on the policy” of new ID requirements for voting, despite claiming in the same breath that Democrats oppose the effort.
Of all U.S. presidents, Trump remains the only one who has been impeached for his actions in the attempted overthrow the U.S. election in 2020.
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Trump speech SO BAD, ENTIRE WORLD is terrified
From Joseph Gedeon UK Guardian:
Former Trump press secretary Stephanie Grisham, speaking at the State of the Swamp counter-event at the National Press Club, drew on her time inside the first Trump administration to call him a liar mid-SOTU speech.
“He used to tell me, ‘Stephanie, if you tell them enough, they will believe it,’” she told the crowd, after his speech was turned off.
“I can tell you, he is lying right now to this country” she added.
Grisham left the administration in 2021 and has since become one of Trump’s most outspoken critics.
From Dharna Noor UK Guardian:
As expected, Trump announced new “ratepayer protection pledges” during the State of the Union address, claiming they will protect Americans from rising electricity costs driven by increased demand from AI datacenters.
Green groups are largely unimpressed with Trump’s “ratepayer protection pledges” plan.
“Trump’s datacenter announcement is a toothless, empty promise based on backroom deals with his own billionaire donors,” said Jesse Lee, a senior adviser at the climate advocacy non-profit Climate Power. He noted that though Trump pledged to halve utility bills within his first year back in office, they have instead gone up nationwide.
A new poll from Lee’s group and Blue Rose Research found that voters are deeply concerned about datacenters’ effect on energy consumption and energy costs. When participants were asked to pick the more concerning issue in randomly paired matchups, they selected utility costs 64% of the time and energy consumption 59% of the time.
Earlier, the president repeated his misleading and exaggerated claim that he’s “solved eight wars”. In response, Michigan representative Rashida Tlaib, a Democrat, shouted: “It’s a lie”.
My colleague, Joseph Gedeon, debunked this often-repeated statement from Trump earlier this year.
When Trump introduced the mother of Iryna Zarutska – the Ukrainian woman murdered on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina – he falsely claimed the man who stabbed her was “a hardened criminal set free to kill in America [who] came in through open borders”.
However, Decarlos Brown Jr, the man arrested for killing Zarutska, was not an immigrant. Trump has long insisted that non-citizens are responsible for violent crime throughout the US. Data shows that relative to undocumented immigrants, US-born citizens are more than twice as likely to be arrested for violent crimes, and 2.5 times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes.
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