LIZ PEEK: America expected one thing from Trump’s State of the Union. It got another

Call maine crazy, but I loved President Trump’s State of the Union speech.

Yes, it was agelong — the longest successful astatine slightest 60 years — but it was besides entertaining. It was optimistic, affirmative and hopeful astir America’s future. Right disconnected the bat, connected Tuesday night, Trump introduced the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team, and though they didn’t pb the enclosure successful singing the nationalist anthem (my concealed hope), they did amusement disconnected their golden medals to thunderous applause and shouts of "U-S-A! U-S-A!" That acceptable the celebratory and triumphant code of the evening.

Trump did not look to beryllium a president nether siege, struggling with sagging support ratings; acold from it. He was astatine his best; helium was relaxed, astatine times funny, and appropriately incredulous astatine the smallness and absurdity of his Democratic opponents. My conjecture is that helium gets a much-needed bounce from this show — not lone due to the fact that of his likable delivery, but besides due to the fact that helium reviewed the tremendous fig of accomplishments that helium and his Cabinet person racked up successful a azygous year.

As important, helium avoided picking a combat with the Supreme Court, which could easy person soured the mood. He described the Supreme Court’s ruling declaring his tariffs amerciable arsenic "disappointing" and "unfortunate," but past moved on, talking up the value of tariffs successful leveling the playing tract for U.S. firms and successful attracting trillions of dollars of concern into the United States.

He besides packed the assemblage with a assemblage of sympathetic and admirable radical whose lives and experiences not lone served to show the policies helium touted but besides inspired the audience.

Who could neglect to applaud the children who are surviving grievous injuries, oregon the aviator wounded during the extraction of Venezuela’s illegitimate president, Nicolás Maduro, who managed to transportation retired the ngo and was past awarded the Medal of Honor? Or the National Guardsman changeable successful the caput who is recovering against each odds? The stories are heartwarming and incorporated overmuch that is exceptional astir the United States — the bravery, sacrifice and patriotism that qualify truthful galore heroes.

President Trump’s astir important ngo was to punctual radical that President Joe Biden near down a messiness and that helium is moving to hole it.

President Trump’s astir important ngo was to punctual radical that President Joe Biden near down a messiness and that helium is moving to hole it. Trump inherited from Biden an system babelike connected gigantic national spending, an unfastened borderline unprotected from a unreserved of criminals who flooded successful among the millions who entered illegally, and prices that soared much than 20% successful 4 abbreviated years.

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A monolithic influx of undocumented migrants poured into cities similar New York, causing chaos, transgression and rising fund headaches arsenic the nationalist had to ft the measure for migrants receiving taxpayer-funded wellness care, acquisition and housing. Those problems are ongoing, contempt Trump’s efforts to deport the criminals who are besides making our cities unsafe. In his speech, helium called upon Congress to outlaw sanctuary cities. It won’t happen, but it should.

Trump ran connected closing the border; contiguous it is much unafraid than ever. As helium reminded voters, if Democrats instrumentality to power, they volition reverse his efforts.

As is customary, Trump cataloged his top hits. He celebrated the "One Big Beautiful Bill," which helium said contained the biggest taxation cuts successful U.S. history, including reduced taxes connected tips, overtime and Social Security. (He introduced a mates from Pennsylvania who are redeeming implicit $5,000 per twelvemonth from the bill.) Trump besides touted his efforts to bring down medicine cause prices, to marque IVF much affordable — and sympathetically introduced a young pistillate trying to go a ma — and to found terms transparency successful wellness care.

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He touted the "Trump Accounts" for young children, which helium said could assistance them get a moving commencement successful life, and called retired machine innovator Michael Dell and his wife, Susan, for contributing much than $6 cardinal to the program.

He besides talked up his program to marque tech companies operating information centers wage for the copious energy those projects require. Electricity prices person soared crossed the country, acknowledgment successful ample portion to what helium described arsenic reckless vigor policies enactment successful spot by climate-focused Democrats. Trump is trying to hole that.

Another program to summation affordability is his caller enforcement bid banning ample Wall Street fiscal firms from buying up homes. At the margin, this whitethorn help, arsenic volition little owe rates. Such initiatives are meant to trim the outgo of living, which is apt to play a ample relation successful the midterm elections.

The president and his squad are besides focusing connected rooting retired payment fraud, which helium said is rampant. Trump said that eliminating theft of payer dollars could destruct the deficit. It won’t, but it tin surely help. Even Joe Biden’s Government Accountability Office said the state was losing hundreds of billions of dollars each twelvemonth to fraud and theft; the Biden White House ignored the problem, but the Trump White House is addressing it.

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The theft of billions of dollars successful payment payments successful Minnesota by chiefly Somali criminals became an overnight governmental liability for Democratic Gov. Tim Walz and different authorities officials who, astatine best, ignored the problem. Trump has designated Vice President JD Vance to pb the fraud investigation; you tin beryllium definite that Democrat-run states similar California and New York volition beryllium successful the crosshairs.

It was a bully nighttime for the president; it was a atrocious nighttime for Democrats. Over 70 Democrats shamefully boycotted the speech, which lone made their dour beingness little impactful. 

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President Trump much than erstwhile called retired Democrats, successful immoderate cases, for opposing fashionable items similar taxation cuts and elector ID laws. He besides berated them for supporting unpopular measures similar sex reassignment of minors without parental approval. As helium introduced a household whose girl had experienced that misfortune, helium waved his manus astatine Democrats, saying, "These radical are crazy." Most would agree.

President Trump got the message: He needs to marque beingness much affordable. Now helium has to travel through. After Tuesday night, the state knows helium is moving astatine it.

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