Open Thread: State of the Union 2026

Could have been thirty minutes shorter, but overall not bad.  Trump has mastered the Reagan pioneered use of guests at State of the Union speeches to make effective points.  The Democrats did themselves no favors tonight by either being disruptive or sitting on their hands.  Trump will be formidable on the stump this fall to rally the base for the midterms.  He hasn’t lost a step as an orator, with a good use of humor and speaking directly to his audience beyond the chambers of Congress.

 

The usual Open Thread rules apply:  be concise, be charitable and, above all, be amusing!

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Mary De Voe
Wednesday, February 25, AD 2026 1:54am

Thank you for the State of the Union speech.
in addition:
“In God We Trust” Our country’s motto is inscribed on every piece of currency.
I often wonder how the atheist, Madalyn Murry O’Hair used this currency “In God We Trust” to challenge the country to remove God from our public sector, schools, municipal grounds, public parks and most everywhere because she and her son, Michael were “offended” by our prayer for peace and good will.
The Supreme Court lost the chance to reinforce our First Amendment civil rights endowed by God: The Freedom of Religion which is a man’s prerogative in responding to God’s gift of Faith; an exercise of conscience, (See Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Conn. Baptist Church) of free will, of freedom if you will.
Bishop Fulton Sheen said: “The rights the state gives, the state can take away.”
Now, the state gives sovereign personhood at birth to whomever it chooses and takes supreme authority over the rights of man.

Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Wednesday, February 25, AD 2026 4:53am

As far as I am concerned, Democrats are as evil now as they were in 1860 when they supported slavery. God bless President Trump, and may He deliver us from these godless diabolical socialists.

David WS
David WS
Wednesday, February 25, AD 2026 5:43am

“As far as I am concerned, Democrats are as evil now as they were in 1860 when they supported slavery.“

Worse(?) They’re still racist (“persons of color don’t have IDs”), project their sin onto others, have a fetish for murdering children in the womb and mutilating child sexual organs after birth.

Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Wednesday, February 25, AD 2026 7:30am

David WS, I stand – er, sit – corrected. Democrats are worse today than in 1860, for back then they did not murder pre-born babies in the womb, nor did they sanctify sodomy as marriage, nor did they sexually mutilate children in the name of transgenderism. Their sin back then was shackling black people to the plantation and their sin today (besides what was just listed) includes shackling black people to the teat of the public treasury and excusing black hoodlum gangsters who rape, murder, pillage, and destroy (remember Iryna Zarutska). Latino drug lords and militant Muslim terrorists (all of whom the godless Democrats excuse) are in the same mold.

BTW the President’s wife is an immigrant – a LEGAL immigrant. So is my wife. So all you Democrats out there accusing us of the sin of racism that you daily commit, you shut your accursed mouths and go crawl back into the pit of vipers from which you came. You are not worthy to live in this Republic.

Sorry Folks, but the perpetual outrage ill affects me. Representative Al Green once more demonstrated that he is the epitome of the mascot of the godless Democrat Party, having to be walked out of the State of the Union address yet again for disruptive behavior typical of an unruly teenager desperately in need of severe corporal punishment.

CAG
CAG
Wednesday, February 25, AD 2026 8:09am

President Trump gave USA goalie Connor Hellebuyck the Presidential Medal of Freedom! 

I hear the Prime Minister of Canada has offered him free MAID service! His house in Winnipeg will be spotless! 😀

Icefalcon
Icefalcon
Wednesday, February 25, AD 2026 9:36am

I am intrigued by Al Green’s sign that black people are not apes. Did he recently have this epiphany?

Greg Mockeridge
Greg Mockeridge
Wednesday, February 25, AD 2026 2:50pm

Trump has improved as an orator. I still don’t think he’s a very good orator. But he’s a great communicator.

Greg Mockeridge
Greg Mockeridge
Wednesday, February 25, AD 2026 4:33pm

Another reason I want the republicans to do well in the midterms is that it will show how insignificant the anti-Semite Groyper cult really is. Watching Nick Fuentes try and cope with that will be enetertaining.

David WS
David WS
Thursday, February 26, AD 2026 4:19pm

Need to vent… (and be careful in future website typing).

Sometimes quickly typing in “American Catholic ” for this site, my computer takes me to “Americamagazine”..
It used to be I could stomach what’s there, no more. It’s now almost totally gross.

This is link is case in point. Father Bryan Massingale on faith and identity as a Black, gay, Catholic priest

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