Presidential Address to Congress Thread

[RoryN]

Starts in less than a half hour.

Axios reports some Dems might disrupt his speech: https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/ar-AA1AcCKA

 

[RoryN]

Lots of pink shirts and love for Ukraine

 

[RobDownSouth]

What is Hegseth wearing on his suit jacket pocket?
Please don't tell me he's got his military medals on a civilian suit......

 

[RoryN]

A protest. Great!

 

[RoryN]

This is quite the spectacle...

 

[UltraChad]

Trump in Congress.....
https://images7.memedroid.com/images/UPLOADED716/583f7c5eeff3d.jpeg

 

[Bn2f]

Wait?
Congress has a Sergeant at Arms?
And they actually like remove congressional members from the chamber???
Who knew I said after having to sit through 12 freaking years of republican disgraceful behavior during speeches of a democratic president.

 

[RoryN]

The Social Security bit was total bullshit.

 

[UltraChad]

W for the newest Secret Service Agent.

 

[Justplainjeff]

What is Hegseth wearing on his suit jacket pocket?
Please don't tell me he's got his military medals on a civilian suit......

Not hardly. Its a red white and blue pocket hanky. The medal is his army unit insignia.

 

[Politruk]

DOGE has not found any waste or fraud.

 

[RoryN]

Trump just went out of the way to denigrate Elizabeth Warren.

She smiled and clapped in response.

 

[Justplainjeff]

You're kidding!?!? Helen Keller could see the fraud and waste that's been uncovered. Millions for transgender projects in Guatemala and Bangladesh! Trans operas in Columbia! Wow.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Trump is a pitifully bad liar but the gullible MAGA sheep believe every word. Imbecilic sheep.

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

God damn… haven’t seen a beat down of Radicalized demorats like that in a long time!

 

[Big_Mikes_Balls]

Trump is a pitifully bad liar but the gullible MAGA sheep believe every word. Imbecilic sheep.

What specifically did he lie about?
Maybe you are misinformed or lying yourself.


“Truth emerges through the process of debate among competing views and opinions: from this perspective, even views that are deemed to be false can serve the positive end of forcing others to develop and clarify their opinions.”

 

[Noitall]

 

[Noitall]

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Looks like they are at auction

 

[Noitall]

degenerate UGLY BLACK CUNT gave alternate speech in EBONICKS

 

[Noitall]

View attachment 2506750degenerate UGLY BLACK CUNT gave alternate speech in EBONICKS

Is that a HITLER sign?

 

[Politruk]

Fact check of Trump's speech.

 

[Big_Mikes_Balls]

Trump just went out of the way to denigrate Elizabeth Warren.

She smiled and clapped in response.

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He was honoring Pocahontas not putting her down. It’s fake Indian awareness day. That’s why she was clapping and smiling .
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/06/politics/elizabeth-warren-native-american/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/16/politics/elizabeth-warren-donald-trump-pocahontas/index.html

 

[Politruk]

Fact check of Trump's speech.

DOGE data

TRUMP: "We found hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud. And we've taken back the money and reduced our debt to fight inflation and other things, taking back a lot of that money."

The Department of Government Efficiency effort has made many claims about taxpayer money saved by cutting the federal workforce, terminating contracts and leases and other actions in the last month. Almost all of them are overstated and misleading, including those in Trump's lengthy monologue tonight.

DOGE's latest top line savings claim is $105 billion, with a fraction of that amount displayed on a "wall of receipts." NPR's review of the "receipts" finds DOGE has deleted errors worth billions from its data, added new errors to its totals and frequently overstates savings. All of the line items Trump mentioned in his speech are real grants or contracts. But they likely offer little "savings" because of termination costs and the fact that many of them have already budgeted and spent to their limit. There's no evidence that any of these terminations are the result of fraud being discovered.

As for Trump's claim about debt reduction: As of Jan. 31 the federal government collected $1.6 trillion and spent $2.4 trillion this fiscal year, a deficit of about $840 billion.

 

[Big_Mikes_Balls]

DOGE data



The Department of Government Efficiency effort has made many claims about taxpayer money saved by cutting the federal workforce, terminating contracts and leases and other actions in the last month. Almost all of them are overstated and misleading, including those in Trump's lengthy monologue tonight.

DOGE's latest top line savings claim is $105 billion, with a fraction of that amount displayed on a "wall of receipts." NPR's review of the "receipts" finds DOGE has deleted errors worth billions from its data, added new errors to its totals and frequently overstates savings. All of the line items Trump mentioned in his speech are real grants or contracts. But they likely offer little "savings" because of termination costs and the fact that many of them have already budgeted and spent to their limit. There's no evidence that any of these terminations are the result of fraud being discovered.

As for Trump's claim about debt reduction: As of Jan. 31 the federal government collected $1.6 trillion and spent $2.4 trillion this fiscal year, a deficit of about $840 billion.

NPR is your source?
No conflict there

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/12/tech/npr-twitter-use/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/media/trump-fcc-npr-pbs/index.html

 

[Politruk]

NPR is your source?
No conflict there

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/12/tech/npr-twitter-use/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/media/trump-fcc-npr-pbs/index.html

NPR is more credible than anything else.