Commentary
After the welcoming applause had subsided, President Trump emphatically announced, “America is back!” And he was off on a speech clocked at an hour and forty minutes as Republicans loudly applauded again.
With the limited space I have, I couldn’t begin to cover the multitude of topics President Trump included in his lengthy speech to Congress and the American people Tuesday night, so I’ll give you a sampling of opinions that made sense to me.
In Brandon Morse’s piece in RedState, “The Trump Speech Nobody Expected,” he wrote of the drama that kept people “glued to their screens wondering what would happen next.” Democrats had signaled they intended to act up.
It didn’t take long for Texas’s disgraceful Democrat Rep. Al Green to be ushered out by a handful of men representing the sergeant of arms, at the direction of Speaker Mike Johnson.
There were the women in pink and those waving ping pong paddles with negative phrases, but it was Green who made a scene standing and yelling “lies” while frantically waving his cane in the air.
“What there wasn’t,” wrote RedState’s Rusty Weiss, “was decorum, dignity, professionalism, or common sense.”
The leftist late-night host of CBS Late Night, Stephen Colbert, who continues to suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, poked fun of the number of men it took to clear Green from the floor, jokingly talking that they found that Green had smuggled in a spine. “Yeah. It’s dangerous. You can’t have that.”
RedState’s Mike Miller viewed the Democrat section as “the most odious display of politicization I’ve every seen in Congress. Democrats showed exactly who they are throughout President Trump’s speech. Their obnoxious behavior was a disgrace. Their visceral loathing of Trump was visibly palpable. In a word, the Democrats dishonored the American people.”
Even MSNBC’s Symone Sanders and Michael Steele were surprisingly critical of Democrat behavior. Sanders calling it “an indictment, in my opinion, on Democrat leadership. The visuals are not taking back the House in 2026.”
“Everyone expected Trump to spike footballs on the Democrats, but in truth,” wrote Morse, “the Democrats did more damage to themselves while Trump actually worked to heal the nation through his dedications to the victims, their families, and those who deserve recognition and praise.”
The CBS/YouGov poll revealed that the majority of Americans had positive attitudes toward the speech.
And did you notice how the stock market bounced back after two days of fretting over tariffs?
In Other News
E. J. Montini, one of three bleeding heart liberal columnists on the staff of the left-leaning Arizona Republic, was giddy over Democrat Sen. Mark Kelly’s criticism of President Trump’s confrontation with Ukraine President Zelenskyy.
The fact that Montini is now commenting on it, five days later, isn’t unusual for the paper that regularly publishes coverage of Saturday college football games on the following Tuesday.
Montini opened his column regretting, “Sadly, there is no John McCain to respond after last week’s White House blowup,” as he finally got around to his praise of Kelly in paragraph 12, where he pathetically called Trump’s performance with Zelenskyy “a gift” to Putin.
I recently referred to Kelly as someone who avoids commenting on issues of significance, content to refer to Trump as a “guy who avoided military service,” and his “cozy relationship with Putin.”
Using the tired phrase frequently used by President Biden – “that’s not who we are” – Montini seemed ill at ease quoting the weak-kneed Kelly, saying, “McCain is no longer around to remind us of what makes us who we are.”
May God continue to bless the United States of America.
