The State of the Union reveals that our country isn't unified. The media thrive on division, on trying to divide Trump from the public. The "fact checkers" pounce on Trump and leave the Democrats untouched. Their comedians and actors speak in the most hateful terms, and then Democrats accuse Republicans of being the ones who divide people.
MRC Video chief Eric Scheiner and MRC Video content creator Justine Brooke Murray join the show to discuss Trump's big speech and all the commentary that came before and after. The first table-setting came with network polls showing Trump's approval rating wasn't good, and then they added other poll questions to make him look bad.
The "fact checkers" were out in force. AP and the New York Times put out lists of Trump whoppers BEFORE the speech was given. After it was over, my review of the usual "fact" sites found 123 evaluations of the Trump speech, and just four for the Democrat. AP was so pedantic it bordered on self-parody. They took issue with the president saying the American Revolution began in 1776: “To be clear, the American Revolution started the previous year, on April 19, 1775,” with the battle of Lexington and Concord. Anyone remember fireworks on April 19?
Reporters overreacted to Trump calling the Democrats "crazy," and often left out the context for that remark. The president said "surely we can all agree no state can be allowed to rip children from their parents’ arms and transition them to a new gender against the parents’ will," and the Democrats sat there in opposition.
Meanwhile, Democrats in the room can yell "You killed Americans" at Trump, and no one in the media takes exception. But when a Republican yelled "You lie" at Obama in 2009 when he said Obamacare wouldn't support illegal aliens, it was a three-day outrage cycle.
CBS called it Trump’s “contentious” 2026 State of the Union speech, as if past speeches were never contentious or partisan. In 2024, Biden screamed at Republicans to prove he was mentally fit, and they all insisted it was "feisty," you were supposed to like it.
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