Episode 5168: President Trump Delivers A Historical State Of The Union
President Trump’s historic State of the Union framed 2026 as America’s "golden age," contrasting his policies with Biden’s alleged $34,000 inflation burden and border crime surge, like Lisbeth Medina’s murder. He proposed radical shifts—tariffs replacing income tax, a war on fraud targeting $19B in Minnesota’s Somali community, and a two-stage Iran military plan (March 10th deadline) with Israel’s involvement. Polling showed 64% of his audience backing his vision, while critics like Jim Rickards noted geopolitical risks (gold over $5,200) and policy gaps despite Democratic spending. Bo Davis and Bo Davidson called it a decisive "inflection point," mocking Democrats’ scripted responses and framing 2026 as a base election to counter their turnout. [Automatically generated summary]
Speaker Johnson, Vice President Vance, First Lady of the United States, Second
Lady of the United States.
Members of Congress and my fellow Americans, our nation is back, bigger, better, richer, and stronger than ever before.
Less than five months from now, our country will celebrate an epic milestone in American history.
The 250th anniversary of our glorious American independence.
This July 4th, we will mark two and a half centuries of liberty and triumph, progress and freedom in the most incredible and exceptional nation ever to exist on the face of the earth.
And you've seen nothing yet.
We're going to do better and better and better.
This is the golden age of America.
We ended DEI. in America.
For decades before I came along, we had the exact opposite.
From trade to health care, from energy to immigration, everything was stolen and rigged in order to drain the wealth out of the productive, hardworking people who make our country great, who make our country run.
Under Biden and his corrupt partners in Congress and beyond, it reached a breaking point with the Green News scam opened borders for everyone.
They poured in by the millions and millions from prisons, from mental institutions.
They were murderers, 11,888 murders.
They came into our country.
You allowed that to happen.
And record-setting inflation that cost the typical family $34,000 in just a speck of time.
Now the same people in this chamber who voted for those disasters suddenly used 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.
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.
Our policies are rapidly ending them.
We are doing really well.
Those prices are plummeting downward.
The price of eggs is down 60 percent, Madam Secretary.
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 just a short time ago.
Today, as you probably saw at the White House, I hosted a ceremony with Americans who lost their treasured loved ones to the scourge of illegal immigration.
People came into our country, how we allowed this to happen with our open borders.
These are the angel moms and families that for decades our government betrayed and our media totally ignored, totally terrible.
Hard to believe, actually.
In 2023, a 16-year-old high school cheerleader named Lisbeth Medina was supposed to perform in her town's Christmas parade, but she never arrived.
Her mother, Jacqueline, went home to look for her, and she found her lying dead in a bathtub, bleeding profusely after being stabbed 25 times.
Lisbeth's killer was a previously arrested illegal alien who had broken in and just brutally extinguished the brightest light in her family's life violently and viciously.
Her heartbroken mother is in the gallery to remind everyone in this chamber exactly why we are deporting illegal alien criminals for our country at record numbers, and we're getting them the hell out of here fast.
We don't want to.
Thank you very much, Jacqueline.
Thank you.
We can never forget that many in this room not only allowed the border invasion to happen before I got involved, but indeed they would do it all over again if they ever had the chance.
If they ever got elected, they would open up those borders to some of the worst criminals anywhere in the world.
The only thing standing between Americans and a wide open border right now is President Donald J. Trump and our great Republican patriots in Congress.
As we speak, Democrats in this chamber have cut off all funding for the Department of Homeland Security.
It's all cut off.
It's all cut off.
They have instituted another Democrat shutdown, the first one costing us two points on GDP.
Two points we lost on GDP, which probably made them quite happy, actually.
Now they have closed the agency responsible for protecting Americans from terrorists and murderers.
Tonight I'm demanding the full and immediate restoration of all funding for the border security, homeland security of the United States, and also for helping people clean up their snow.
We have no money because of the Democrats, and it would be nice.
We'd love to give you a hand at cleaning it up, but you gave no money.
Nobody's getting paid.
It's a shame.
So you have to think about it.
We have, in case you didn't know, pretty large snowstorm out there.
One of the great things about the state of the union is how it gives Americans the chance to see clearly what their representatives really believe.
So tonight I'm inviting every legislature to join with my administration in reaffirming a fundamental principle.
If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support.
The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.
You should be ashamed of yourself not standing up.
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.
They're blocking the removal of these people out of our country.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
And perhaps most importantly, i'm asking you to approve the Save America Act to stop
illegal aliens and others who are uncommitted persons from voting in our sacred American elections.
That cheating is rampant in our elections.
It's rampant.
It's very simple.
All voters must show voter ID.
Voters must show proof of citizenship in order to vote.
And no more crooked mail-in ballots except for illness, disability, military, or travel.
with people like this, Democrats are destroying our country, but we've stopped it just in the nick of time, didn't we?
But when it comes to the corruption that is plundering, really, it's plundering America.
There's been no more stunning example than Minnesota, where members of the Somali community have pillaged an estimated $19 billion from the American taxpayer.
We have all the information.
And in actuality, the number is much higher than that.
And California, Massachusetts, Maine, and many other states are even worse.
This is the kind of corruption that shreds the fabric of a nation, and we are working on it like you wouldn't believe.
So tonight, although started four months ago, I am officially announcing the war on fraud to be led by our great Vice President, JD Vance.
We'll get it done.
And if we're able to find enough of that fraud, we will actually have a balanced budget overnight.
It'll go very quickly.
That's the kind of money you're talking about.
We'll balance our budget.
The Somali pirates who ransacked Minnesota remind us that there are large parts of the world where bribery, corruption, and lawlessness are the norm, not the exception.
Importing these cultures through unrestricted immigration and open borders brings those problems right here to the USA.
And it is the American people who pay the price in higher medical bills, car insurance rates, rent taxes, and perhaps most importantly, crime.
We will take care of this problem.
We're going to take care of this problem.
We are not playing games.
Delilah, you are a great inspiration.
Please stand up.
Thank you, Delilah.
Many, if not most, illegal aliens do not speak English and cannot read even the most basic road signs as to direction, speed, danger, or location.
That's why tonight I'm calling on Congress to pass what we will call the Delilah Law barring any state from granting commercial driver's licenses to illegal aliens.
This is especially true among young people, and a big part of that had to do with my great friend, Charlie Kirk, a great guy, a great man.
So last year, Charlie was violently murdered by an assassin and martyred, really, martyred for his beliefs.
His wonderful wife, Erica, is with us tonight.
Erica, please stand.
Thank you, Erica.
Been through a lot.
In Charlie's memory, we must all come together to reaffirm that America is one nation under God, and we must totally reject political violence of any kind.
We love religion, and we love bringing it back.
And it's coming back at levels that nobody actually thought possible.
You have just experienced the longest State of the Union ever in State of the Union history.
It wasn't just the feeling you had, it was the mass.
Over an hour and 47 minutes, the president blowing out of the water the previous record for the longest State of the Union speech ever, a record he himself set last year.
In terms of the length of the speech, which I think will probably be the bottom line up front that people take away from this speech was just how achingly long it was.
We asked that about Trump's policies among speech watchers.
Now, remember, this is a poll among speech watchers, so it is a much more Republican universe that got pulled here because Republicans tune in in greater numbers for a Republican president's State of the Union address.
And the results will show you exactly that.
64% say Trump's policies would move the country in the right direction.
36% say the wrong direction.
I just want you to know, our poll of the overall electorate is the exact opposite of that.
So in the overall population, he's upside down this way.
But among speech watchers tonight, 64% say his policies will move the U.S. in the right direction.
And look at the growth President Trump made over the speech.
So pre-speech, it was 54% of speech watchers said his policies will move the U.S. in the right direction.
After the speech, that number goes up 10 percentage points.
So Donald Trump made some progress with people watching the speech from their pre-speech expectations to what they saw in the speech itself.
And that 64% number, that's pretty much in range across all of his State of the Union addresses in his first term last year, the joint session.
That's about what we've seen is roughly two-thirds have walked away from his speeches thinking he's going to move it in the right direction.
If you're a Republican on the ballot in 2026, I think you leave this speech being as happy as you could possibly be that he sort of stuck to the script on the economy.
He gave the red meat to the base on immigration, and they can leave the hall tonight and sort of take that out on the campaign trail.
We'll celebrate the 250th anniversary of America because it's done good things, who believe that their border should be closed and that their city should be protected from bad criminals and that their spending should go back to levels that don't bankrupt the country.
And then the hatriots, those who sit and can't even applaud a young child who recovers from a heinous traffic accident, can't applaud or even cover an event that honors parents who lost their loved ones to fentanyl or to border crimes, can't even applaud American military heroes whose contributions are beyond anything any of us could imagine doing in the call of duty.
Those are the hatriots on one side.
They sat, they pouted.
All they could do after the speech was to give their anger at Donald Trump.
The only message they had is that Donald Trump's a bad guy last night.
Donald Trump went in the room and said, America is a great country.
Look around you.
Look at the people that are sitting here.
The hockey team, the military patriots, the survivors of horrific crimes.
This is what makes America great.
And oh, by the way, I'm not going to talk just about my accomplishments.
I've got to tell you what comes next because I'm a bottom line.
I'm going to do it next.
And he laid out six or seven really big ideas.
The only idea that Democrats have had since 2016 is that Donald Trump's a bad guy and we'll just sing that all day.
And illegal aliens are better than Americans.
Literally, the president divided that room into two campsite and he has set the stage now for Republicans to run in the 2026 election on that.
Either you love your country, you love common sense, you embrace American heroes and you do the right thing by our country, or you hate it and you play with the communists and the socialists and the defrauding illegal immigrants and the raping and marauding illegal immigrants.
That's how we broke down the battlefield last night.
Could not be any clearer.
I agree with the CNN assessment.
If you're in the Republican Party last night, your president just inspired you on how you're going to run and win the 2026 election, which really gives the Republicans maybe a six or 10 year run in Washington.
But here's the beauty for an audience that is low propensity and low information, they don't follow a lot of politics, is on broadcast last night.
This is where you get a chance to talk to the nation.
And he sets a trap and then tees it up perfectly.
This is why Trump's superpower and his skill set is so far beyond traditional politicians because he's not a politician.
He set the trap about, I want everybody to stand if the first responsibility of the American government, he didn't say his administration of the American government is the protection of American citizens over illegal aliens.
And they just sat there.
He closed the trap on national TV and their faces and their screaming.
And of course, a couple of the smart ones realized he just got us right there because it's a high relief.
He knew that the Democrats got Trumped last night.
And I think that, you know, it's a great moment.
Now the question is, where do conservatives go from here?
Where do Democrats go from here?
I thought Spanberger had an opportunity last night to be a little different than the rest of her underperforming party and to maybe lay out some fresh ideas.
Instead, she stumbled and bumbled and read a script that probably wasn't even hers.
And all it was was, we hate Donald Trump.
You should hate Donald Trump.
You were morons to elect this guy.
Shame on you.
They're offending over half the country, and they simply don't understand that.
And until Democrats get an idea machine going that actually connects with middle America, they're in grave danger.
And for the other side, Donald Trump basically told all you guys, I didn't make any excuses last night.
I didn't say I can't get the tariffs done because the Supreme Court overruled me.
I said, I'm coming back and I'm going to get it.
Stop making excuses.
Get off your duffs and get the rest of this agenda done before we go to the ballot box in 2026.
And that includes a SAVE Act, some more tax cuts, real savings in the government, something that Republicans have failed, even though Doge set them up for success.
And now JD Vance is set up for that success.
And then accountability, accountability for the double jeopardy abuses of American civil liberties by the hundreds, maybe the thousands now as we start to look at the FBI intelligence community's conduct.
There may be hundreds or thousands of Americans whose civil liberties were abused and violated in a conspiracy to get Donald Trump.
Didn't matter whether you were legally culpable.
You were going to face the wrath of government.
If those things happen, if you get the SAVE Act, if you get some more spending cuts, if you get that sort of accountability, Donald Trump will have his army out in bundles in November and Democrats will be buttoned down.
But that's a big if.
We haven't seen the Republicans in that room keep up with the guy that was on that podium.
What we have just a few minutes ago put up on Justin News is a story that we got thousands of pages of documents we had to sue for multiple years with the help of America First Legal to get Fonnie Willis to finally cough up.
What do they show?
They show that Fonnie Willis, the Fulton County District Attorney who brought the first state case against Donald Trump that mirrored or mimicked the Jack Smith case against President Trump, was in deep collusion with the Justice Department, with the January 6th Democrats and the Biden White House.
Yep, Joe Biden's White House said, we'll waive Donald Trump's executive privilege for you.
The Justice Department said we'll waive and approve your TUE requests, which are requests to get federal workers to help you build a state case against a federal or national figure.
The fix was in.
And why is this important?
Because this is the best proof we've had to date.
These documents, 8,000 pages.
Everybody should go read them.
They're up at Justin News.
They show that the Democrats intentionally and strategically created a double jeopardy, double drain machine to go after Donald Trump, potentially another violation of the civil liberties of Donald Trump and his followers who were prosecuted and pursued after the 2020 election.
We have double jeopardy.
We're protected from being prosecuted for the same crimes in two places, except in this case, you see the Biden Justice Department, the Biden White House, and the January 6th Democrats trying to push Fonnie Willis to create a double jeopardy, double drain situation for Donald Trump.
That's not what we do in America.
If you're a patriot, if you're a hatriot, you might do that.
This is day one.
Tomorrow, we're going to show people whether there was a financial incentive, a financial reward, a financial follow-the-money stream to Fonnie Willis that comes in as she's pursuing this.
And you can assume that if it happened in Georgia, well, we have similar election cases now in Wisconsin and Arizona.
The next question will be for the Justice Department, for the FBI, for the congressional investigators like Barry Lautermoke, who's coming on my show tonight.
Did it happen in those states?
Was this so orchestrated that federal taxpayers were funding these state efforts to smear Donald Trump to create double jeopardy, double drain situations in multiple states?
It will become part of the conspiracy case.
It is now working out of Miami.
That's what's happening.
Next week, I think we'll get our first taste of some of the new election integrity revelations that people like Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel and Pam Bonnie have been working on.
And we'll learn of some new intrusions and some things that should concern us and that we can fix with the 2026 election.
I think it's the sort of stuff that will wise up some senators who might be on the fence on the SAVE Act.
They might get a little smarter when they hear these next revelations, probably next week.
I thought about the speech in kind of three different dimensions.
One is, you know, policy, what do Republicans in particular, but you know, the population as a whole care about.
Two, I'll just call it theatrics.
And then three, does this make any political difference in the long run?
I'll start with the theatrics.
I mean, you know, communications theory, the research is very clear.
Something like this.
People actually don't listen to it.
They're listening, but they're not, they don't listen.
What they do is they watch.
They form their judgment by what they see.
The theatrics were excellent for Trump.
It was, you know, the close of, you know, Rashid Taleb and Elon Omar.
They looked, you know, impotent, frustrated, marginalized, and they were yelling, screaming, whatever.
But what a pathetic show.
Elizabeth Warren, when Trump mentioned the capture of Nicholas Maduro in Venezuela, she winced as if, well, what a horrible thing.
I mean, and you can't control that.
A lot of it's just reflex, but the camera doesn't lie.
So I said that in that sense, the Democrats look like complete losers.
Again, not almost a serious, not important party.
On the other side, yeah, the Congressional Medal of Honor, Olympic hockey team, honoring various Americans and then paying respects to people who have suffered tragedies.
By the way, the Congressional Medal of Honor winners and the Freedom, the Presidential Medal of Freedom winner, well deserved, no question about that.
I might have had one or two less, maybe just want to put the rest in the Oval Office, a little more dignified setting.
It was almost like they were handing them out, but okay, but the winners deserve them, but I thought that was a little bit overdone.
But the visuals were extremely good for Trump.
On policy, again, what's not to like?
Tariffs will replace the income tax, lower drug prices with Trump RX, requiring data centers to provide their own electricity so the cost doesn't go to consumers, matching grants for private retirement plans, stop the Insider Trading Act, war on fraud led by JD Vance.
I mean, I could go on and on.
That's what a state of the union address is in some ways.
So, this was all excellent.
I agree, personally, I agree with everyone on those policies, but that doesn't matter.
What matters is, you know, are you appealing not just to Republicans, but also to independents?
The answer was yes.
But there were two other things that I thought were very revealing.
On the big issue, war and peace, he said very little.
Now, he did say something very important, which is that Iran will not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.
He was categorical.
There were no conditions on that.
Well, if you say that and Iran doesn't agree, then you have a war.
So, I do, we talked about this before.
I do expect the attack to come.
I'm circling March 10th as the date.
But what Trump said left very little doubt about it because clearly, if everyone's not going to agree to that, and so you can expect the war.
The fact that he said so little to me was actually very revealing.
Where this fell down, and where I would be, by the way, I voted for Trump six times in primaries and general elections, so I'm on his side.
But where he, I would say, failed, and this has to do with the politics of it, where we go between here and the midterm.
Did he move the needle?
You know, John Solomon had a very good analysis.
He said the Democrats don't have any issues except I hate Trump.
They actually do have one.
It's the affordability issue.
The White House was slow to realize that.
I think Susie Wiles was important in kind of getting them focused on that, but they still don't understand it.
The White House does not understand the affordability issue.
They're talking about a lot of things.
When Trump said inflation is plummeting, it's not plummeting.
Actually, the latest data is about the same, up a little bit by some measures, down by others, but it's not really moving a lot.
And what you find is that income is 80 or 90% of the gains on average are going to 10 to 20% of the people, which means 80% of the population is being left behind.
And that's what the White House doesn't see.
And you have to see that to really address what people are concerned about.
So theatrics, great.
Policy, great.
I think the fact that you said very little about the war with Iran was revealing, that means the war is coming.
But on the big issue, which is affordability, which is what the midterms will probably turn on, I think the White House still doesn't get it.
I'm going to talk about growth and wage growth, all of it, but we'll get into the economics hopefully later in the week or next week, Jim, when we get you back.
I want to go back to the war.
He was as definitive as I've heard him ever saying you can't have a nuclear weapon or part of a nuclear weapon.
Jared Kushner and Witkoff are supposed to be, I guess, Jared caught the red-eyed.
They're supposed to be in Geneva today to talk to the Persians, and they still can't get in the same room.
I think President Trump, you're going to hit a limit that he's not going to sit there and these inner, you know, the Persians are in one room, Jared and Witkoff another, and they're passing notes back and forth with the Omani or with the Oman guys or with the Swiss.
I think he's going to, if they don't get into a room and start having a real discussion and not the Persian way to negotiate, let's negotiate the next meeting, the size of the table, you know, what the notes are.
I agree with you.
I think he's, I think he says, I want peace, I want a deal, but I'm not, we're not going to play games.
When you say March 10th, is that because of Ramadan or when you think the air wing will be ready on the second carrier strike group?
Yeah, it's more about the air wing and the interoperability and getting signals coordinated.
Nothing to do with Ramadan.
I don't think Trump cares that much about that.
It's, you know, the second carrier group, the Carrier Strike Force, Gerald F. Ford, is in place.
So they're there, but they can't just start launching planes off the deck.
There's a little bit more preparation.
And what we have is diplomacy and preparation for war going down the same tracks.
It was working in parallel.
Of course, you want a diplomatic solution, but one of the ways you get there is to show that you're prepared for war.
One thing we know about Trump, and he can talk to Maduro and Scheinbaum, president of Mexico, about it, he's not bluffing.
And he's made that clear.
And I think he made it clear last night.
He didn't have to say a lot.
He said the one categorical thing, which is you cannot have a nuclear weapon.
Now, message to the Iranians: tell us what you're prepared to do in terms of verifiability, you know, transparency, shutting down these programs, et cetera.
If you can't, if you can't do it quickly, meaning in days, maybe a week at the most, then the attack is coming, how the antique unfolds to be seen, probably.
Yeah, I mean, from the situation room, the information was that this is a two-step plan.
Step one, pretty, you know, difficult, but pretty conventional military.
Take out the air defenses, take out the factories that make the drones, take out the ballistic missiles to the extent you can, basically degrade Iran's ability to strike back or attack U.S. assets or Israel in the area.
And Israel will be part of this clearly.
We haven't talked about that a lot, but it'll be Israel and the United States.
That's stage one.
Then you take a beat and you turn to the Iranians.
Okay, you got the message now.
Do you want to talk or not?
Maybe, maybe then something different will happen.
Yeah, the honor or dishonor, however you want to view it.
But it is an honor to be on your program, Steve, with you.
Thanks for having me.
Some really tremendous coverage last night by the RAV team front to back.
Abigail Spanberger, Steve, opened her non-speech with three questions.
Is the president working to make life more affordable?
And I think all three of these questions, by the way, Steve, were rhetorical.
I think the answer unequivocally is yes.
Second question, Steve: Is he working to keep Americans safe?
Well, we watched almost two hours of a speech where he talked about protecting Americans and calling out Democrats that can't stand up, who don't understand the fundamental role of American government.
So that answer is yes.
Her third question, Steve, is the president working for you.
All the things that were laid out in that speech, from his policies to his vision to what he's going to do coming down the road, that answer is also unequivocally yes.
So she had three rhetorical questions at the top of her speech that she tried to keep answering and saying the answer is no.
But I think after what we saw in an hour and 47 minutes or so, the answer was yes to all three of those questions.
It looked like they had paid extras from Central Casking to come in there and clap for her.
You know, you look at the scale of the State of the Union.
I'll admit, it would be tough to try to create something similar.
It's kind of like what the great work Turning Point USA did with their halftime show.
If you're going to go big, you have to make it at least somewhat equivalent to what just happened.
Now, maybe they couldn't have predicted that Trump would come out with one of the most amazing speeches he's ever had, but to have a little piddly group of 10 people clapping for you with that tepid speech, it just didn't cut the mustard for me.
Okay, gold is up over $5,200 in the headline crossing the Bloomberg tape is because of uncertainty on tariffs and geopolitical risk.
Peter Navarre is going to be on in a moment to talk about the tariffs, but geopolitical risks, that's a fancy term for war.
President Trump and Rickards had this right.
I don't agree with Jim on the affordability issue.
We'll have Jim back on.
He's a very smart guy to walk through that and break it down.
But President Trump is about as blunt as he's ever been.
And as you know, we adamantly oppose a regime change.
We're in Iran, but President Trump's been very consistent on this with the nuclear weapon.
And people can come back and say, well, they're an independent country.
They can have it do what they want.
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Bo, last night was interesting as you watch Spanberger.
The president, because he didn't have a State of the Union last time, but traditionally you do go up every year.
He went a couple of weeks right after the inauguration to give an update on the nation.
And the response by the Democrats was Slotkin in Michigan.
Then they had Spanberger in Virginia.
They've picked two CIA operatives that they now have an elective politics.
If nothing else, I think we have to look at it nefariously at its very least.
You know, I suppose, Steve, that they picked Spanberger because of her victory in Virginia and thinking that she's like the face of the party, this repudiation of Trump.
But I think we saw that fail last night.
And to be honest, I don't even know if it mattered who was speaking last night because the dichotomy of what we saw between President Trump's Aplom versus Ilon Omar and Rashida Tlaib and their pettiness, their childishness.
I think that's actually what became the face of the party last night, no matter what Abigail Spanberger said.
Her tepid milquetoast response, I think, was not only just a throwaway, but there's no way she could possibly top it.
And after what we saw visually, I think there's no way that she could come back.
And all she could do was retreat at that point.
It was a terrible speech, terribly delivered, terribly written, as opposed to the masterfully written and masterfully delivered speech by Donald Trump.
Well, there are four themes that kept running through last night's speech, Steve.
And I want to focus on the fact you talked about this being an experience.
There's a Greek word called Kairos.
It means a unique moment in time, a unique moment for decisive action.
I think that's what we saw last night.
You know, kudos to Ross Worthington and Vince Haley for incredible writing.
But there were four themes, Steve.
One was celebration, and you just touched on it there.
It's the men's hockey gold.
It's the 250th birthday, FIFA World Cup, Olympics in LA, the medals of honor, celebrating our veterans, our heroes, Scott Ruskin, Eric Slover, amazing men, amazing men and women who've done heroic things.
That's something we all as Americans can and should and must celebrate.
Yet half of the room, Steve, is not standing up.
So there's a delineation, and that's kind of my second theme really that I saw from the speech was this differentiation or demarcation.
He mentioned the Dinah Washington song almost, What a Difference a President Makes.
That's the song that kept playing in my head.
The differentiation of Trump versus Biden, of Republican versus Democrat, of logic in the Republican Party versus insanity in the Democrat Party, of Rubio versus Hillary Clinton as far as Secretary of State goes, of an open border versus a closed border.
There was this differentiation that kept happening and demarcation.
And the line in the sand, you got to stand up if you believe that the government's first role is to protect American citizens and not illegal aliens.
And that line was drawn, my friend.
And when that line was drawn and nobody stood up on their side of the aisle, I think we saw what happened, what we witnessed last night in terms of American history.
That it cannot be overestimated.
So that's theme number two, Steve.
For me, the third theme was explanation.
Every policy that Donald Trump laid out last night, he had a living, breathing witness to it or a witness to what the bad policy was before him.
And we could run through those on the tax plan, Megan Himhauser getting an extra $5,000 to take home this year.
Trump RX, Catherine Raynor, with lower price IVF drugs.
Border policy, having Delilah Coleman and Lisbeth Medina's mom victims of terrible policy on crime, Irina Zarutska's mom, Arena stabbed, of course, in North Carolina.
Transgender policy, Sage Blair, who couldn't inform her parents of the policy.
And foreign policy, Enrique Marquez, being saved from a Venezuelan prison.
Every single policy he laid out, he had a living, breathing witness for it, or someone who'd been unfortunately the victim of a bad policy under the previous administration.
And lastly, Steve, I'll just say this: I think the fourth theme was vision.
What he laid out, what we're looking at, what's coming down the road.
Retirement accounts, Delilah's Law, requiring tech companies to provide their own power.
This was the vision that Donald Trump laid out.
Here's what we've done that's good.
Here's what's coming down the road that you can like.