The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | 2/25/26
Aired: 2026-02-25
Duration: 46:49


=== Assuming Medical Care Is Always On Demand (01:28) ===

[00:00:00]  Holy cow, we've got a lot going on today with the State of the Union address.
[00:00:05]  Also, pushing back on some pathetic attempts to fact-check Donald Trump's address.
[00:00:11]  There's not enough information to know if that's true yet.
[00:00:14]  Okay.
[00:00:15]  And the bride of Charlie.
[00:00:19]  America, we need to talk that and so much more on today's podcast.
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[00:00:28]  You need groceries, they'll be there in an hour.
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[00:00:31]  There's one thing that doesn't always show up on demand, and that is medical care, especially when the system gets strained or when you're farther away from help than you expected to be.
[00:00:41]  We don't like to think about that.
[00:00:42]  We just assume that our pharmacy is always going to be open.
[00:00:45]  We assume that we'll all be well on vacation.
[00:00:47]  We assume the clinic will have appointments.
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[00:01:25]  Hello, America.
[00:01:26]  You know we've been fighting every single day.

=== Preparedness Against School Shooters (02:49) ===

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[00:02:24]  There's something else I'm not blind to.
[00:02:29]  And everybody is forcing everybody to get into this fight.
[00:02:35]  And I'm not getting into the fight.
[00:02:37]  I'm just not going to do it.
[00:02:39]  And here's why.
[00:02:41]  I have a policy on school shooters, and I don't always hold to it, but I try.
[00:02:48]  I don't want to mention the name of school shooters because that's what they want.
[00:02:52]  That's what they thrive on is attention to whatever it is they're wanting to talk about.
[00:03:00]  I'm not going to give it to them because I know that's what they want.
[00:03:05]  But I do, from time to time, feel I should say something, and not about the personalities, but about principles.
[00:03:16]  If you've listened to this show, when we started, you know, the Tea Party started, and that was all about politics.
[00:03:21]  And I said, the 9-12 project is not about politics.
[00:03:24]  It's about principles, values and principles.
[00:03:27]  That's what this show is.
[00:03:29]  If you, and I'm not talking about you, those who say, you know, Glenn Beck hasn't spoken out about this and he's got to speak out about it, go to hell.
[00:03:37]  Who are you to tell me what I have to do?
[00:03:41]  Second thing, you don't, if you don't know where I stand on issues, especially when it is regarding Jews, you don't know by now you've never listened to this show.
[00:03:53]  Okay?
[00:03:53]  You've never listened to this show.
[00:03:58]  And if you think that you are more outraged than I am, have your children been dragged into it?
[00:04:07]  Have your children been questioned?
[00:04:10]  Like, why were they there?
[00:04:12]  You know, he loves the Jews and they were suspiciously close to him when he died.
[00:04:16]  Were your children brought into it?
[00:04:17]  Because mine were.

=== When Restraint Compromises Fame (11:19) ===

[00:04:18]  For me, it's personal.
[00:04:20]  But that's no, that's no business of yours or anybody else.
[00:04:24]  That's for me and my wife and my family.
[00:04:28]  I want to talk to you about principles.
[00:04:30]  So let me lay out a couple of principles here.
[00:04:35]  I've lived my life since I was 13 years old behind a microphone.
[00:04:41]  Okay.
[00:04:43]  And I have been successful and a failure and successful and failed and successful again.
[00:04:50]  Okay.
[00:04:51]  I've lived long enough to see what fame can do to me and to others.
[00:04:58]  And it's not the applause that's harmless on the surface, not the money because that's just paper on the surface.
[00:05:05]  Fame is battery acid for the soul.
[00:05:09]  I've said that for a long time, but I want to go into this principle a bit.
[00:05:13]  Fame burns slowly.
[00:05:15]  It doesn't scar all at once.
[00:05:17]  It corrodes you from the inside.
[00:05:19]  It corrodes your identity.
[00:05:21]  If you don't know who you are before the spotlight hits you, that bright, garish spotlight, that spotlight will then tell you who you are and it will lie to you every step of the way.
[00:05:38]  This is an important principle for you to understand because the spotlight is on all of us.
[00:05:44]  When I got into this, I had to work to build an audience.
[00:05:47]  Now, members of my audience have an audience.
[00:05:51]  Okay?
[00:05:52]  You can have an audience.
[00:05:53]  This applies to all of us.
[00:05:55]  In this age of social media, being the one is very dangerous.
[00:06:03]  And when I say the one, the one that's trending, the one that it's exposing, the one that is feared, the one that's being debated about, the one that is changing minds and hearts, the one, whatever it is, it's intoxicating.
[00:06:17]  And it feels like purpose.
[00:06:20]  It feels like destiny.
[00:06:22]  It feels like righteousness.
[00:06:24]  Yeah.
[00:06:27]  But it's a drug.
[00:06:30]  And it's interesting because you are both the user and the dealer.
[00:06:35]  Because media, social media or mainstream media, it's not, you are using the drug and it's lying to you, but you're also dealing the drug.
[00:06:45]  Because you might have hit something that was honest, but then if things start to slide at all, you have to find out what that next honest thing is that will take you to the next level.
[00:07:02]  And that's really hard.
[00:07:03]  You have to be able to walk away from all of it.
[00:07:06]  You have to be able to say, it's not that important to me.
[00:07:11]  You have to be, how many times have I offended this audience?
[00:07:15]  How many times have you probably listened to the show and went, what the hell is wrong with you?
[00:07:19]  Why would you say that?
[00:07:20]  Do you not know who the audience is?
[00:07:22]  Yeah, I do.
[00:07:24]  I do.
[00:07:25]  And there have been times when I've almost driven you away because I felt, well, a couple of times because I was arrogant and I thought I knew better than you.
[00:07:34]  That was a huge mistake.
[00:07:35]  That's my fault.
[00:07:36]  That's stupidity.
[00:07:38]  But other times, like, for instance, when I printed Addicted to Outrage, thank you.
[00:07:44]  I can barely remember it because it sold like four books.
[00:07:47]  When I published Addicted to Outlaw, Outrage, I knew it wouldn't do well.
[00:07:52]  I knew it wouldn't do well.
[00:07:53]  But it was important for me to talk about what outrage can do to you.
[00:08:00]  It was important for me to say, you know what, I've made mistakes and I've learned from it for me.
[00:08:08]  But when you are, when you're addicted to that high, you addict others to that high as well.
[00:08:16]  You've got to keep the audience high, which means you have to push harder.
[00:08:19]  You have to dig deeper.
[00:08:20]  You have to reveal something darker, something more shocking than what I told you yesterday, something even more forbidden, because yesterday's outrage isn't a big enough drug.
[00:08:31]  That's what got me high yesterday.
[00:08:33]  It won't get me high today.
[00:08:36]  And sometimes that pursuit uncovers real corruption.
[00:08:40]  Sometimes it does serve justice.
[00:08:43]  But sometimes if we're honest, it becomes escalation for the sake of escalation.
[00:08:49]  Not because truth demands it, but because the machine demands it.
[00:08:54]  And once you walk down that road, stopping walking down that road is almost impossible.
[00:09:01]  Okay?
[00:09:02]  You have no idea.
[00:09:03]  When I left Fox, it screwed with me for four years.
[00:09:07]  Hard.
[00:09:08]  It is so hard to walk away.
[00:09:12]  So hard.
[00:09:12]  Roger Ailes told me you're not walking away.
[00:09:14]  Nobody ever does.
[00:09:16]  When he said that, I realized, oh my gosh, I really now have to walk away because he's right.
[00:09:21]  Nobody does.
[00:09:23]  But when you walk away from just the outrage part, not the fame, just the outrage part, I guarantee you, you're going to be accused of selling out.
[00:09:31]  If you show restraint, you've been compromised.
[00:09:35]  If you choose mercy, you're protecting evil.
[00:09:39]  And it's the very crowd that lifted you up that will turn on you the moment you refuse to go further.
[00:09:46]  One of the saddest things for me is you've listened to me for 25 or 30 years and I can say one thing and all of a sudden you'll say, you're a traitor.
[00:09:57]  And it's like, what?
[00:09:59]  Really?
[00:10:00]  Is that how shallow our relationship is?
[00:10:08]  This is principle.
[00:10:10]  And here's the principle that I think we have to defend.
[00:10:14]  And it goes right to the bride of Charlie Kirk.
[00:10:19]  Can we leave the grieving to their grief?
[00:10:24]  You may not like somebody.
[00:10:26]  You may not trust somebody.
[00:10:28]  You might disagree with them.
[00:10:30]  You might believe they're wrong about everything.
[00:10:34]  But grief is sacred ground.
[00:10:38]  And it's not battleground for speculation.
[00:10:41]  If someone dies and you believe a crime occurred, there's a process to that.
[00:10:47]  There are investigators.
[00:10:48]  There are courts.
[00:10:50]  If you have evidence, give it to the authorities.
[00:10:52]  If you have resources, quietly fund the pursuit of facts.
[00:10:56]  You don't conduct a trial through thumbnails and trailers.
[00:11:03]  Let me explain it this way.
[00:11:06]  Because I'm a former alcoholic DJ.
[00:11:10]  Let's say a small town family loses their father in an accident.
[00:11:15]  Suspicious, however.
[00:11:16]  The town is divided.
[00:11:18]  Rumors are starting to swirl.
[00:11:20]  And one local radio host like me begins asking questions, not with evidence, but with feelings.
[00:11:27]  I don't know.
[00:11:28]  I feel.
[00:11:29]  And they're very, very guarded and careful.
[00:11:31]  They'll hint, they'll imply.
[00:11:34]  They will build the audience on suspicion, but they'll never truly accuse because I'm going to pay for that one in a court of law.
[00:11:42]  But I have this feeling.
[00:11:45]  What happens?
[00:11:46]  Soon the widow can't buy groceries without whispers every time she goes into the store.
[00:11:51]  The children hear theories about their mom at school.
[00:11:55]  Five months later, nothing has been proven, but the damage is permanent.
[00:12:01]  And even if later the host says, you know, I was just asking questions, the community is fractured.
[00:12:06]  That damage is permanent.
[00:12:08]  That's the principle at stake.
[00:12:11]  Free speech matters deeply.
[00:12:14]  I will defend someone's right to say the things.
[00:12:19]  I will defend their right to say the despicable things they've said about my children and me, because they have a right to say it.
[00:12:26]  And the moment we start silencing people that we disagree with, we lose.
[00:12:31]  We lose our freedom.
[00:12:32]  We lose the republic.
[00:12:34]  But free speech is not the same as moral obligation and responsibility.
[00:12:39]  Free speech comes with responsibility.
[00:12:42]  And the First Amendment protects your right to speak.
[00:12:46]  It does not compel you to speak.
[00:12:49]  It doesn't sanctify escalation.
[00:12:53]  It does not require you to monetize suspicion.
[00:12:57]  Because there's a difference between investigation and insinuation, between courage and compulsion, between truth-seeking and audience-feeding.
[00:13:09]  And fame, if you're not careful, convinces you that every instinct must be broadcast.
[00:13:16]  I suffer with this so badly.
[00:13:18]  I don't know.
[00:13:19]  I have this feeling I should say that.
[00:13:21]  No.
[00:13:23]  Not everything you think, not every suspicion needs to be shared.
[00:13:31]  Not every silence is weakness.
[00:13:34]  Sometimes it's strength.
[00:13:35]  Sometimes restraint is the highest form of strength.
[00:13:41]  We should be rallying around principles that make us more human, not more viral.
[00:13:47]  Decency, process, presumption of innocence, respect for grief.
[00:13:53]  It's been five months.
[00:13:56]  Put yourself, if this society can no longer put itself in another man's shoes and see what those five months must be like, and you were dogpiling in the first three weeks, we're a lost society.
[00:14:16]  Once we normalize turning mourning into content, none of us are safe from being content ourselves.
[00:14:25]  The culture that rewards behavior like this isn't just influencers.
[00:14:32]  It's us.
[00:14:33]  Because we click, we share, we debate, we fuel the machine.
[00:14:37]  We demand people get involved.
[00:14:40]  And that demand creates supply.
[00:14:45]  So instead of saying, what the hell happened to fill in the blank of the influencer, what the hell has happened to the right or to the left, maybe the question is, what is happening to us?
[00:14:59]  If we don't anchor ourselves in who we are, and my opinion shouldn't matter more than your opinion, Glenn's got to speak out on this because his opinion, my opinion is no more important than your opinion.
[00:15:17]  If you are waiting for me to endorse your opinion, you're lost.
[00:15:21]  Don't have power.
[00:15:23]  There's power in you.
[00:15:27]  But you got to know these things before the likes, before the numbers, before the praise, or all of us are going to be swept away by whatever gets the most reaction.

=== Why We Cannot Stand for Wealth (13:56) ===

[00:15:37]  Truth requires patience.
[00:15:40]  Justice requires evidence.
[00:15:42]  Grief requires space.
[00:15:46]  These are not partisan values.
[00:15:48]  These are civilization values.
[00:15:52]  If you lose the civilizational values, it doesn't matter who wins the argument.
[00:15:59]  Let me tell you about American Giant.
[00:16:01]  Long before algorithms, you know, there were calloused hands shaping steel and cotton and timber into something lasting.
[00:16:10]  There were men and women who measured twice, cut once, and took pride in a finished product that could be passed down through generations, not tossed out.
[00:16:18]  Quality back then was not a marketing term.
[00:16:20]  It was a personal standard.
[00:16:22]  And somewhere along the way, we started optimizing for speed and scale instead of durability, and things got cheaper and faster, more disposable.
[00:16:31]  And so we shipped many manufacturing jobs overseas because it was cheap.
[00:16:36]  American Giant decided, you know what, I think it's time to go in the other direction.
[00:16:39]  And they build their clothing here in America.
[00:16:42]  They work with American factories and American workers who still believe how something is made actually matters.
[00:16:50]  From the fabric to the stitching to the focus on craftsmanship and long-term wear, not just what looks good on a website.
[00:16:57]  When production is close to home, standards aren't abstract.
[00:17:00]  They're visible.
[00:17:01]  They're accountable because something made with calloused hands tend to last longer than something designed by an algorithm.
[00:17:08]  Buy American today at american-giant.com slash Glenn.
[00:17:12]  Save 20% when you use my name for your first purchase.
[00:17:15]  That's American-giant.com slash Glenn.
[00:17:19]  Now back to the podcast.
[00:17:20]  You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
[00:17:25]  Last night was not a speech.
[00:17:28]  Last night, it was a mirror.
[00:17:31]  And if you were watching carefully, not through Twitter, not through the spin room, not through cable Chirons, but actually watching the room, you saw something that should concern every Democratic strategist in America.
[00:17:47]  You saw something in the room that if you vote for the Democrats, should have made you question, who am I standing with?
[00:17:57]  The damage was not done by the president.
[00:18:00]  The damage was done by the people who refused to stand or clap for the most obvious things.
[00:18:10]  Let me say something plainly here.
[00:18:14]  This was the best speech President Trump has ever given.
[00:18:17]  I mean, you want to talk about a mic drop.
[00:18:19]  And I urge you, go back and look at when he was walking out.
[00:18:24]  I mean, I think you will see it.
[00:18:26]  Now, when I point this out, you will see it.
[00:18:28]  When he's walking out and he's shaking people's hands on the way out, the guy looks 20 years younger.
[00:18:34]  He looks like he's 60 when he's walking out.
[00:18:39]  He walked in strong, clear, disciplined, not tired, not wandering.
[00:18:46]  He was on prompter, yes, but he commanded the prompter unlike any time I've ever seen him give a speech.
[00:18:53]  He had humor that landed.
[00:18:56]  He had key moments like the hockey team that was human, that was light, that was confident.
[00:19:03]  The opening statistics I thought were overwhelming, rapid fire, border, inflation, energy, jobs.
[00:19:11]  There was a rhythm to this speech.
[00:19:14]  The most important thing is he did not look like he was defensive.
[00:19:20]  And Donald Trump has been on the defense for most of his presidency, not necessarily this term, but last term.
[00:19:30]  And then when he was running for president and even towards the beginning of this first or this second term, he has been saying, look, it's going to be great.
[00:19:42]  He no longer had to say that.
[00:19:44]  Last night, he was on the offense.
[00:19:46]  Last night, he looked certain.
[00:19:50]  He knew what he had done, and he was commanding as president of the United States.
[00:19:58]  But that's not the story.
[00:19:59]  Although that's big news, that's not the story.
[00:20:03]  The story was the Democrats.
[00:20:06]  When you have a third of them not standing for the U.S. hockey team, what is going on?
[00:20:17]  No real applause for the Olympics or the World Cup coming to America.
[00:20:24]  Muted response for the first World War II veteran.
[00:20:30]  Polite, restrained clapping for the Coast Guard rescue mission.
[00:20:35]  What?
[00:20:36]  What?
[00:20:38]  The moment that was the most powerful moment I have ever seen any president give other than Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
[00:20:48]  There was no moment in presidential history in my lifetime that was as strong as that until last night.
[00:20:57]  Stand if you agree the first job of government is to protect the American citizen and not foreign citizens.
[00:21:08]  That's the easiest applause line ever presented in American politics.
[00:21:15]  That is, you shouldn't even think.
[00:21:18]  Stand up.
[00:21:19]  That's not even partisan.
[00:21:21]  Is the job of the American government, Congress, to protect the American city, a citizen, or illegals or foreign citizens?
[00:21:36]  What happened?
[00:21:39]  Hesitation, folding of arms, looking down, no one clapping, no one standing up on that side of the aisle.
[00:21:47]  Just play this out with me.
[00:21:50]  That's something that even if you don't believe in, you stand up for.
[00:21:55]  It's something that you go like, I don't believe in this, but this is going to look really, really bad.
[00:22:00]  We all got to stand up.
[00:22:02]  You don't damage your opponent when you do that.
[00:22:05]  You damage your brand.
[00:22:07]  This was the worst night for any brand and maybe twice as bad for the night that Coca-Cola came out and said, we're getting rid of the original recipe and we're going right for new Coke.
[00:22:25]  I mean, that did brand damage like I've never seen before.
[00:22:28]  This, I'm not sure the Democrats survive the brand damage that they're doing right now.
[00:22:34]  You know what I mean?
[00:22:37]  When you don't, you can't stand for that.
[00:22:42]  The American people last night were not watching like operatives.
[00:22:47]  They were watching like parents.
[00:22:51]  And parents understand instinctively, if you can't stand for protecting citizens, something is very broken.
[00:23:00]  Something is very wrong.
[00:23:02]  The border section was devastating to the Democrats.
[00:23:08]  Angel moms.
[00:23:10]  Elizabeth stabbed 24 times.
[00:23:13]  Delilah crushed by an 18-wheeler.
[00:23:17]  Now a little girl in first grade kissing her father.
[00:23:22]  You don't stand for that?
[00:23:24]  Calling for commercial license to be denied to illegal immigrants because of her and calling it Delilah's Law.
[00:23:32]  And you can't stand for that?
[00:23:36]  You can't clap for removing dangerous rapists and criminals from the country.
[00:23:42]  Think about this.
[00:23:44]  We can disagree on immigration policy all you want.
[00:23:48]  We can debate visa quotas.
[00:23:50]  You can argue about asylum reform.
[00:23:53]  But when you can't stand for deporting violent criminals, that's not a strategy.
[00:24:00]  That's the end of your brand.
[00:24:02]  That's moral confusion.
[00:24:06]  I was stunned by that.
[00:24:10]  Because America looked at that and went, Do these people hate our country?
[00:24:17]  Do they hate America?
[00:24:20]  The average person, you had to walk away with that.
[00:24:25]  The contrast on all of it, I mean, the economic contrast, very sharp.
[00:24:30]  He talked about, you know, inflation and how they drove up inflation by spending too much.
[00:24:37]  Energy, they drove up inflation because they stopped drilling, you know.
[00:24:43]  And he said, you caused this.
[00:24:45]  Your policies caused this.
[00:24:48]  I'm fixing it.
[00:24:49]  Crushing health care costs.
[00:24:51]  Everybody in the country knows healthcare is being crushed.
[00:24:56]  It's crushing people.
[00:24:58]  You did, you promised Obamacare.
[00:25:02]  You said it would fix it.
[00:25:04]  And it hasn't.
[00:25:04]  It's made it worse.
[00:25:07]  And I'm going in and fixing it.
[00:25:10]  When he comes out and he says, look, you're going to pay, what was it?
[00:25:14]  The IVF thing.
[00:25:16]  I got to get into that.
[00:25:19]  When he talks about any of the drug costs going from $4,000 to $500, you can't stand and applause for that?
[00:25:29]  You can't?
[00:25:30]  What?
[00:25:33]  Then taxes.
[00:25:35]  Did you notice that when they introduced Michael Dell, who gave, what was it?
[00:25:40]  $6 billion, some crazy amount of money to these, you know, to the, you know, these America accounts.
[00:25:49]  So kids can be, when they're born, they can get an account worth, I don't know how much.
[00:25:55]  Well, Michael Dell gives, he and his wife give, I don't remember what it was.
[00:26:00]  I think it was, I think it was $6 billion, wasn't it?
[00:26:03]  $6 billion.
[00:26:06]  $6 billion.
[00:26:09]  Okay?
[00:26:12]  They don't stand for a guy who just gave the nation and the children and the most vulnerable $6 billion.
[00:26:20]  They will stand and applaud for, we want to take more of these rich billionaires' money, but we're going to take it.
[00:26:28]  We're going to use it for the IRS.
[00:26:30]  We're going to take it.
[00:26:30]  And then God only knows where that money goes.
[00:26:34]  They'll cheer for taking and crushing billionaires, but they can't stand and applaud a man who voluntarily gave $6 billion to the government to help children.
[00:26:48]  That should tell you a ton.
[00:26:52]  They could not applaud for a deduction on your auto loan for the first time in history.
[00:27:00]  No tax on tips.
[00:27:02]  No tax on tips.
[00:27:04]  They could not applaud for that.
[00:27:08]  They couldn't applaud when he talked about 401ks are up.
[00:27:13]  What was it?
[00:27:14]  30%, I think.
[00:27:16]  I mean, I know that you don't feel it.
[00:27:20]  And quite frankly, it's hard to feel.
[00:27:23]  I don't feel it.
[00:27:24]  When I go to a fast food restaurant and I'm rolling out of there and it's just Tanya and I and we've just spent 35 bucks at McDonald's, I have a hard time going inflation's under control.
[00:27:35]  So I get it.
[00:27:36]  If you're trying to buy a house, I completely get it.
[00:27:39]  I don't think the average person feels it yet, but I don't think the average person has looked at their 401k either.
[00:27:48]  How much is the average 401k up?
[00:27:50]  He said since I took office, the typical 401k balance is up by at least 30,000.
[00:27:55]  30,000.
[00:27:59]  Okay?
[00:28:01]  You can't applaud for that?
[00:28:06]  You can't applaud, actually, I think Elizabeth Warren did, applauded for the Wall Street being banned from buying up single-family homes.
[00:28:17]  She also stood for insider trading.
[00:28:21]  They didn't stand for paying the lowest prescription drug price paid anywhere in the world.
[00:28:26]  I have always said, Democrats, why do you have a problem with us overpaying here in America that we are paying the highest drug price in the world?
[00:28:35]  Aren't we the wealthiest 1% in the entire world?
[00:28:38]  Of course we are.
[00:28:39]  America is, when you look at it globally, we are the wealthiest 1% in the world.
[00:28:45]  You always say the wealthiest 1% should pay more.
[00:28:48]  Well, your drug policy for prescription drugs, the way you allow America to have her eyes pushed in with the thumbs of the insurance and the drug companies, it at least fits your view that the wealthiest 1% should pay the highest because as a collective looking at America, even the poorest are among the wealthiest 1% in the world.
[00:29:16]  But he comes in and he says, that's not fair.
[00:29:19]  That's not right.
[00:29:21]  We should not be, we're now paying the lowest.
[00:29:26]  And you can't recognize that accomplishment?

=== Angry Insults vs. Constitutional Duty (08:39) ===

[00:29:34]  I mean, you can argue policies.
[00:29:37]  You can argue whether any of these mechanisms will work long term.
[00:29:41]  That's fair.
[00:29:43]  But he was offering mechanisms.
[00:29:47]  The Democrats last night offered facial expressions, pins that use the full word F-ICE.
[00:29:55]  You see Rashida Tlaib wearing a pin that said F-ICE.
[00:30:00]  That's appropriate?
[00:30:04]  They offered angry insults, screaming on the floor.
[00:30:10]  I mean, do I need to go into Joe Wilson?
[00:30:14]  Do you remember what that was all about?
[00:30:17]  Under Obama, during the debate on Obamacare, he said, look, you got to pass Obamacare.
[00:30:23]  It's got to be done because it doesn't have anything that these people say it will.
[00:30:28]  It will never be used to support health care for illegal aliens.
[00:30:35]  That's an absolute blatant lie.
[00:30:37]  It was a blatant lie then.
[00:30:38]  It's a blatant lie now.
[00:30:39]  Look at it.
[00:30:41]  But he said that.
[00:30:42]  And Joe Wilson could not take it.
[00:30:44]  And so he said, you lie.
[00:30:47]  What happened?
[00:30:49]  What happened?
[00:30:50]  It was like the whole world caved in.
[00:30:54]  You can't do that.
[00:30:55]  How dare you say that?
[00:30:58]  He had to apologize the next day.
[00:31:00]  The president then accepted his apology.
[00:31:05]  But that wasn't good enough for the Democrats.
[00:31:07]  They didn't accept it.
[00:31:08]  You know, John McCain, everybody was on fire because he said two words, you lie.
[00:31:15]  Last night, they were screaming, you kill Americans from the floor.
[00:31:26]  Representatives were screaming, you kill Americans.
[00:31:31]  And nobody says anything.
[00:31:36]  It was incredible.
[00:31:37]  When he said Republicans voted for tax cuts and every Democrat voted against them, they sat.
[00:31:44]  When he said, stop insider trading in Congress, Elizabeth Warren stood.
[00:31:52]  Democrats did not.
[00:31:55]  When he said, we're putting the American worker first arms folded.
[00:32:00]  Do you know what the American voters saw last night?
[00:32:05]  Resentment.
[00:32:07]  Resentment.
[00:32:10]  Hatred for America.
[00:32:12]  It was the most patriotic speech I have seen given by a president in a very long time.
[00:32:19]  And they looked like they hated America.
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[00:32:31]  I want to start with the audio, which I have never, ever seen anything like it.
[00:32:42]  He is calling out.
[00:32:48]  Where is that audio here?
[00:32:51]  Okay, this, cut 13.
[00:32:53]  Listen to this, where he is just asking people, just stand.
[00:32:59]  Just stand if you believe this.
[00:33:00]  Listen.
[00:33:02]  So tonight I'm inviting every legislature to join with my administration in reaffirming a fundamental principle.
[00:33:09]  If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support.
[00:33:14]  The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.
[00:33:30]  They're not clapping, the Democrats.
[00:33:33]  None of them are standing.
[00:33:36]  None of them.
[00:33:38]  And Donald Trump just motions towards them.
[00:33:41]  Like, look at that.
[00:33:49]  This is the biggest political mistake I've ever seen a party make.
[00:33:53]  Isn't that a shame?
[00:33:54]  You should be ashamed of yourself not standing up.
[00:33:57]  You should be ashamed of yourself.
[00:34:00]  That is why I'm also asking you to end deadly sanctuary cities.
[00:34:06]  Do you notice here, I've never heard the president speak so forcefully as, I mean, he was a couple of times where you're like, what?
[00:34:16]  What is happening?
[00:34:17]  It's because he was trying to drown out the shouts from the high schoolers that call themselves congressmen who were shouting, you kill American citizens.
[00:34:30]  I mean, insane stuff.
[00:34:33]  That's why he was shouting so loud.
[00:34:36]  That's why I'm introducing, because he wanted to drown them out.
[00:34:40]  I've never seen anything like it.
[00:34:42]  From a country that went from Joe Wilson saying, you lie, and the whole nation stopped.
[00:34:48]  How dare you do that to the president of the United States?
[00:34:51]  I don't care if you disagree with him or not.
[00:34:53]  You don't disrespect the president in the state of the union to that.
[00:34:57]  I was surprised they didn't start throwing things at him.
[00:35:00]  And I mean that sincerely.
[00:35:02]  I was shocked they didn't start throwing things at him.
[00:35:08]  It was not a good look.
[00:35:11]  Now, do we have the place to where he is talking about here?
[00:35:23]  Let's play cut 12, him calling for the, you know, for ending the shutdown.
[00:35:29]  Listen to this, cut 12.
[00:35:31]  As we speak, Democrats in this chamber have cut off all funding for the Department of Homeland Security.
[00:35:38]  It's all cut off.
[00:35:40]  It's all cut off.
[00:35:42]  They have instituted another Democrat shutdown, the first one costing us two points on GDP.
[00:35:49]  Two points we lost on GDP, which probably made them quite happy, actually.
[00:35:54]  Now they have closed the agency responsible for protecting Americans from terrorists and murders.
[00:36:01]  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.
[00:36:15]  We have no money because of the Democrats, and it would be nice.
[00:36:19]  We'd love to give you a hand at cleaning it up, but you gave no money.
[00:36:23]  Nobody's getting paid.
[00:36:24]  It's a shame.
[00:36:25]  So you have to think about it.
[00:36:26]  We have, in case you didn't know, pretty large snowstorm out there.
[00:36:32]  You know what he didn't say?
[00:36:34]  You want to be petty, but accurate.
[00:36:39]  But anybody who thought he was petty, you know what he didn't say has been defunded?
[00:36:45]  Secret Service.
[00:36:46]  Secret Service, DHS and Secret Service.
[00:36:51]  As they continue to try to kill this president, they're defunding Secret Service.
[00:37:00]  To me, that took a man much bigger than me because I would have said, I've had attempt on my life after attempt on my life, and you people are responsible because you keep saying I'm a Nazi.
[00:37:16]  And you have the gall to cut the budget and stop paying secret service to protect not just me, but our judges and some of you.
[00:37:30]  How dare you do that?
[00:37:32]  You have a responsibility to protect the constitutional order.
[00:37:38]  He didn't say that.
[00:37:40]  And he would have had every right.
[00:37:41]  They just tried to kill him again.
[00:37:44]  He'd have every right to do that.
[00:37:46]  Every right.
[00:37:48]  Now, it's amazing to me how some people are saying, you know, well, he didn't get any of the facts right.
[00:37:57]  He didn't get any of the facts right?
[00:37:58]  What?
[00:37:59]  So let's look at what he said last night because a lot of them that they say he didn't get right, well, it was mostly true, but we don't have enough evidence yet.
[00:38:10]  Okay, that doesn't make it false.

=== Economy Hits Record Low (08:35) ===

[00:38:13]  Okay.
[00:38:13]  The economy.
[00:38:14]  I had inherited a nation in crisis with stagnant economy, inflation at record levels.
[00:38:20]  Yep.
[00:38:21]  Yep.
[00:38:22]  The economy was not growing.
[00:38:27]  Now, BLS said it wasn't stagnant.
[00:38:32]  He says inflation is plummeting, core inflation down to the lowest level in more than five years.
[00:38:37]  In the last three months of 2025, it was down to 1.7%.
[00:38:42]  The BLS says core CPI is at 2.5 to 2.6 year over year, December and January 26, the lowest in years, but not at 1.7.
[00:38:55]  Gasoline, he said, now below $230 a gallon in most states, $1.99 where I've seen it, and $1.85 a gallon I saw at a gas station in Iowa.
[00:39:07]  The press is saying that's false.
[00:39:09]  The national average is $2.92 to $2.95.
[00:39:13]  Well, it's sure they held better than four bucks a gallon, isn't it?
[00:39:17]  And that was in February of 2026.
[00:39:20]  No widespread sub $2.30 prices.
[00:39:25]  No widespread.
[00:39:27]  He said, I saw a gas station in Iowa, and in most states, it's $2.30.
[00:39:35]  That's not sub 230, is it?
[00:39:38]  Interesting.
[00:39:40]  Mortgage rates are the lowest in four years and falling fast.
[00:39:42]  The annual cost of a typical new mortgage is down almost $5,000 since I took office.
[00:39:47]  Slight exaggeration is what they mark this.
[00:39:50]  Rates fell in 2025, but not to a four-year low across the board.
[00:39:57]  Exact $5,000 savings, not independently verified at scale.
[00:40:03]  Okay.
[00:40:05]  The stock market is at 53 all-time record highs.
[00:40:10]  Dow Jones broke 50,000 four years ahead of schedule.
[00:40:13]  Mostly true, but exaggerated on 53.
[00:40:15]  Dow Jones hit 50,000 in early February, not at 53,000.
[00:40:22]  That's not what he said.
[00:40:24]  He said the stock market broke 53 records.
[00:40:31]  Did he not?
[00:40:32]  He wasn't saying it was at 53,000.
[00:40:35]  It just broke because he follows it.
[00:40:37]  All-time highs.
[00:40:37]  Dow Jones broke 50,000 four years ahead.
[00:40:41]  Okay.
[00:40:41]  Even if it was 50, 53.
[00:40:45]  In 12 months, I've secured commitments for more than $18 trillion new investments.
[00:40:50]  Fact checkers, unverifiable.
[00:40:53]  I mean, where is he getting that number?
[00:40:55]  Well, this is their quote, no independent government or news confirmation of exact $18 trillion figure in commitments.
[00:41:03]  Okay, but what is the figure that you have?
[00:41:05]  If it's not $18 trillion, what is the figure?
[00:41:09]  Because when you look at those numbers and you add them up, and if they actually come through, and this is all you need to say, $18 trillion, okay, that's what he says, but that money is trickling in.
[00:41:23]  There's maybe been a trillion of it that has come in so far.
[00:41:26]  It's over five years.
[00:41:27]  We'll watch.
[00:41:28]  But if that happens, then it's true.
[00:41:32]  American oil production is up by more than 600,000 barrels a day.
[00:41:37]  Plausible, but unconfirmed is the exact figure of 600,000.
[00:41:43]  American natural gas production is at an all-time high.
[00:41:47]  True.
[00:41:48]  More Americans are working today than any other time in the history of our country.
[00:41:52]  100% of all jobs created were in the private sector.
[00:41:55]  True.
[00:41:56]  Let me say that one again.
[00:41:58]  More Americans are working today than at any time in the history of our country.
[00:42:04]  100% of all jobs created were created in the private sector.
[00:42:10]  True.
[00:42:12]  Why is that important?
[00:42:15]  That's important because we're not growing the size of the government.
[00:42:20]  All the jobs that have been created in the last, you know, during the last administration, the vast majority of them were all government sector.
[00:42:29]  They're not.
[00:42:30]  Okay.
[00:42:31]  We cut the record number of job-killing regulations, lifted 2.4 million Americans off of food stamps.
[00:42:37]  Exaggerated.
[00:42:39]  Snap rolls declined, but exact 2.4 million record, not independently verified as largest one in one year.
[00:42:48]  Okay.
[00:42:49]  All right.
[00:42:51]  Largest tax cuts in American history.
[00:42:53]  No tax on tips.
[00:42:54]  No tax on overtime.
[00:42:55]  No tax on Social Security.
[00:42:57]  Interest on auto loans tax deductible if made in America.
[00:43:02]  Mostly true, they say.
[00:43:04]  The typical 401k balance is up by at least $30,000.
[00:43:09]  Fact checkers, plausible.
[00:43:12]  Strong 2025 market gains boosted balances, but not exact averages.
[00:43:16]  Increase varies by source.
[00:43:18]  So we found another source that said it was, what, 23,000?
[00:43:22]  The average is up 23,000.
[00:43:24]  So we're not sure.
[00:43:26]  23,000, 30,000.
[00:43:29]  What difference does that make, honestly?
[00:43:32]  Because there's no verified number, so you can pick either and say either one of those is true and probably you won't be wrong or that wrong.
[00:43:41]  The point is, is that America's 401ks, I didn't even think of that.
[00:43:46]  I didn't think that 401, the average American 401k, let's just use 23,000.
[00:43:51]  Did you know that?
[00:43:53]  Nobody's checking their 401ks.
[00:43:55]  Everybody checked their 401ks in 2008.
[00:43:59]  I heard every day, do you know how much I've lost in the stock market?
[00:44:02]  You know how much my 401k?
[00:44:03]  How am I going to retire?
[00:44:05]  In the last year, if your 401k is up $23,000 or $30,000, that's a big deal in one year.
[00:44:16]  The flow of deadly fentanyl across our border is down by a record 56% in one year.
[00:44:23]  True.
[00:44:24]  The murder rate saw its single largest decline in recorded history.
[00:44:28]  It's the biggest decline, lowest number in over 125 years.
[00:44:32]  Mostly true.
[00:44:33]  Homicides fell 21% in 2025 across major cities, largest single-year drop on record.
[00:44:40]  National rate, likely lowest, likely lowest since 1900.
[00:44:44]  Okay.
[00:44:45]  All right.
[00:44:47]  Members of the Somalia community have pillaged an estimated $19 billion.
[00:44:52]  Minnesota, California, Massachusetts, Maine, even worse.
[00:44:57]  They say that's exaggerated.
[00:45:00]  Real fraud cases existed in feeding programs, et cetera, but the totals were in the hundreds of millions, not 19 billion nationwide.
[00:45:08]  I think we have that to play out yet.
[00:45:10]  And I don't think I take the press on their number more than I take what the president is saying on the number.
[00:45:17]  I'm telling you right now, a third of our debt, a third of our debt is going to, in the end, be because of fraud.
[00:45:32]  That's how big I think the fraud is in the United States government.
[00:45:36]  I think a third of our debt, not our deficit, our yearly deficit.
[00:45:41]  What did he say yesterday?
[00:45:44]  I think he said, didn't he say half or a third of our debt?
[00:45:51]  He said we would wipe out our national deficit.
[00:45:54]  If we just eliminate the fraud, we will wipe out our national deficit and we will balance the books.
[00:46:00]  I think that is absolutely true.
[00:46:02]  Absolutely true.
[00:46:04]  Crime in D.C. is now at the lowest level ever recorded and murders in D.C. this January were down close to 100%.
[00:46:11]  Fact-checked, exaggerated.
[00:46:14]  Homicides are down sharply, 67% year to date, early 2026 versus prior, January 2026, very low.
[00:46:23]  Only one to two cases.
[00:46:25]  Not almost no crime or exactly 100%.
[00:46:30]  Not almost no crime or exactly 100%.
[00:46:35]  Okay, all right.
[00:46:37]  Well, we get it.
[00:46:38]  The point is, is that when he said that and he said crime is down dramatically, we're at the lowest crime in over 100 years.
[00:46:47]  The murder rate is down.