The 2026 State of the Union Address.

 

The 2026 State of the Union Address was one of the unique State of the Union addresses in history. Donald Trump went of to promote usual lies and blame Democrats for nearly all political problems in America, which is false to say the least. He defended his policies on immigration, the economy, tariffs, etc. when he has record low approval rating. Only about a third of Americans support Donald Trump. He spoke for one hour and 48 minutes. He called his administration a "turnaround of the ages" when many Americans struggle to afford health care, housing, education, and other legitimate services in everyday life. Trump is an agent of the super rich oligarchy plain and simple. In a cruel irony, we live in a time of 250 years after the Declaration of Independence. We don't desire billionaires to control the whole government, to promote armed raids on immigrant communities, to spread concentration camps across America (to house immigrants), to tear children from their families, to advance racial profiling, and to allow federal agents to gun down unarmed civilians in Minneapolis plus nationwide. Trump was silent on the Jeffrey Epstein files massively too. The dollar fell more than 9 percent in 2025. Social inequality has grown as the top 1 percent richest households control 31.7 percent of all wealth. He wants Congress to pass his retrograde policy initiatives involving immigration, etc. Many Democrats didn't attend the address, but some of them held a rally in Washington, D.C. The new Virginia Governor, Abigail Spanberger, gave the Democratic response to the words from Trump focusing on affordability, immigration, the economy, etc. Trump honored the gold medal-winning U.S. men's hockey team, who received a bipartisan standing ovation. He presented Medals of Honor to 2 people, including a 100-year-old Korean War veteran. Trump said that the murder rate has declined, but that the murder rate declined by multiple people, including Democratic governors and Democratic mayors, not the product of one man in office. The decline in the homicide rate since 2022 is good news. The unemployment rate is up to 4.3 percent from 4.1 percent in December 2024. Trump is wrong to assume that he secured $18 trillion in new investments in America. Trump falsely claimed that gas is now below $2.30 a gallon in most states. Gas prices has dropped from a recent national peak of $5.02 in June 2022 to $2.95 according to AAA, but that is not below $2.30 in most states. 

Trump made the racist lie that members of the Somali community have pillaged an estimated $19 billion from the American taxpayer. Trump is the same joker who called Somalis "garbage" which is pure 100 percent racism. The truth is that nearly $18 billion of federal funds supported over a dozen of state run programs in Minnesota since 2018. Only Somalis charged with fraud are only 82 people, a small fraction of the whole Somali community in Minnesota. The biggest Minnesota fraud scheme to date was done by a white woman named Aimee Block. As for tariffs, most of the tariffs are passed to U.s. consumers and businesses. He promotes the SAVE Act, which the ACLU claims will increase the burden on people to vote. Trump made other lies, too. Trump contto say the lie that the 2020 election was stolen. One protester at the event was U.S. House of Representative leader Al Green of Texas (a Democrat) who held a sign "Black people aren't apes" at the U.S. Capitol. He is against the racist video that Trump has supported on his social media account before it was taken down. Green was escorted out of the chamber. He was escorted last year for protesting Trump's address to a joint session of Congress. Other people protested too like Epstein victims wearing pins and other Democrats holding signs. Two Democrats yelled at Trump "You killed Americans." Therefore, we have to keep our eyes on the prize which is freedom, justice, and equality for everyone. We have to use positive, bold, and constructive action in seeing that reality.

We have seen four years of the war in Ukraine. This war has a long history, years before 2022, but it started officially when Russia illegally invaded Ukrainian territory. To this very day, many far-right people and phony liberals justify Putin in invading Ukraine. Many fake liberals even lie and call Putin a great progressive leader, and many MAGA followers have praised Putin, too. Let's be clear on who Putin is. Putin is an authoritarian, far-right dictator who was once head of the Soviet KGB, which was an intelligence organization. Putin has jailed protesters and journalists who disagree with his policies. Human rights organizations have fully documented Putin's anti-liberty policies for years. Putin's Russian military forces have kidnapped Ukrainians, attacked civilian targets in Ukraine, and desire nothing more than an annexation of most if not all of Ukraine. The Ukrainian people have shown courage and proved that the Russian military is not omnipotent by any measure.

There are a lot of events in the world. One is that negotiations between America and Iran are ongoing. This comes when Trump has sent massive bombers and naval ships in the Middle East. Trump wants to attack Iran if attempts at diplomacy fail. He is doing this without Congressional consultation, because Trump is a neo-conservative involving foreign policy while hypocritically claiming to try to escape "forever wars." The U.S. military build up in the Middle East against Iran is the largest since 2003 (which was the year when the Iraq War existed). According to Robert Pape, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, he wrote that this force represents 40-50 percent of deployable U.S. air power in the world. We should be clear that we reject any U.S. attack on Iran, which is a country with 90 million people. Such an act is an illegal international crime. Also, Jay Bhattacharya takes over the CDC as measles cases surge in America. We know about the plan for the Georgia internment camp for immigrations with 10,000 beds. Many people oppose this plan.

California Governor Gavin Newsom went and talked about SAT scores. I'm consistent. I'm opposed to Trumpism and the MAGA movement, but if a person made offensive comments (regardless of political party), then he or she should be criticized. Newsom is completely wrong on his comments. He spoke in Atlanta, Georgia, with Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens. Gavin said that he is a regular person by having 960 on the SAT, and you never seen him read a speech because I can't read a speech. Gavin is wrong, because regular people can read or not read and score high on SATs. We shouldn't inspire people to have low expectations in life. We should inspire people to achieve excellence through hard work and assistance if necessary. Gavin knows full well he can use many different words (in describing his dyslexia) to appeal to working-class people of every color in Atlanta, Georgia. In truth, black people historically don't glorify low bar standards. We made high standards of creating movements, being lawyers, being geniuses, and creating massive improvements in society by merit, by our God-given talents, and by our strength plus resiliency. Likewise, the MAGA movement is filled with racism, sexism, and bigotry, as proven by Trump supporting a racist video about Barack Obama and Michelle Obama. That is why Kamala Harris would never make such comments as Gavin had done. Gavin made slick, sexist comment about Kamala (of saying that without Wille Brown, Kamala would never be where she is. That is a sexist lie as Kamala graduated and earned political power in being a district Attorney, a State Attorney, a United States Senator, and Vice President by her own merit) when Kamala led a powerful Presidential campaign that focused on solutions not a faulty diatribe. Gavin needs to apologize to Kamala Harris and black people for his nonsense period. 

By Timothy