Worst Joint Session Ever
President Trump’s address to the joint session made America fouler, and ended his second honeymoon.
Mr. Trump called his administration’s disastrous six weeks America’s “golden era.” He declared our “momentum is back.” Sad fool has not seen the stock market lately. He claimed Americans view the country as on the “right track,” but forgot to look at a right-track-wrong-track poll first—as of March 4, the Hill has those numbers at: “Wrong Track 59.9% - Right Track 26.8%.”
He then compared himself to George Washington, because he is a narcissistic asshole.
My applause for Rep. Al Green, who stood up and shook his cane. I stand with Mr. Green.
Mr. Trump declared President Joe Biden “the worst president in history,” because Mr. Trump has no class, tact, honor, or dignity, and then began to insult the rest of the Democrats in the room, claiming they would not even cheer for him if he achieved something, then listed a series of accomplishments his administration’s policies would certainly stymie.
Vice President JD Vance’s sniggering and sneering was particularly disgusting, but that may have been his face. The poor boy has no future ahead of him.
Mr. Trump claimed he withdrew from the Green New Deal, which does not exist, and then bragged about abandoning America’s global leadership.
The acclamation Republican members of Congress gave for bullying and firing federal workers tells me everything I will ever need to know about them.
Mr. Trump, who announced this morning that colleges who hosted protests would have their funding cut off, then falsely claimed to have “brought free speech back.”
Mr. Trump declared America will be “woke no longer,” because he is a bigot, and made multiple transphobic comments in contradiction of his previous embrace of his friend Caitlyn Jenner, who he promised could use “whichever bathroom she wants in Trump Tower.”
Mr. Trump said he wanted to rescue the economy from Mr. Biden’s policies, despite his crashouts making the economy he inherited from Mr. Biden worse, and attempted to “pass the buck” by blaming Mr. Biden for the price of eggs, which more than doubled under Mr. Trump. Now, New York bodegas sell “loose eggs.”
Is this strategy viable? To take no accountability and blame everything on a man who left the city months ago?
President Elon Musk, who appeared high on ketamine, was booed, and gulped and nodded his head trying to pretend to be coherent. Mr. Trump then read a list of government programs in a mocking voice to try to justify his co-president’s reckless destruction of the federal government and abdication of America’s soft power abroad.
Mr. Trump rambled implausible statistics, including claims of 150-year-old men in the Social Security program, which he hopefully can prove or else he is a flagrant liar. My suspicion is that they have either misread information or fabricated it. He also claimed “hundreds of thousands of federal workers are not showing up for work,” more numbers that need to be proved.
This is the great sin of these people: they talk a lot of shit, but never come around to demonstrating fact basis. Even in areas where I do not consider them dishonest—Canada, for example, does have illicit drug manufacturing (thanks in part to Mr. Trump’s beloved Ross Ulbricht and his bitcoin drug markets)—Republicans prefer to bloviate instead of explaining themselves and still use gratuitous hyperbole, making them seem like liars.
I grew bored and only came back to alertness when Mr. Trump started complaining about dirty migrant vegetables and talking about how much he loves farmers, even while he knows farmers are suffering badly from his funding freezes.
I was glad to see First Lady Melania Trump made an appearance. We never see her these days.
I am so tired of this man. Mr. Trump’s insistence on fouling the office of the presidency with constant degradation of his foes makes it impossible to simply listen and measure his policy proposals, successes, and failures. There is no reason to ceaselessly insult Mr. Biden, who is retired, or the Democratic Party, whose fundraisers he delighted in attending and whom he will have to work with again when we retake the House in 2026.
Pointing to Democrats in Congress, who by all measures are considered moderates, and calling them “radical leftist lunatics,” is egregious and ugly. I do worry that there will now be children who think Mr. Trump is a role model, emulate his rhetoric, and find themselves unfit for entry-level jobs.
“With a name like Kennedy, you would have thought [the Democrats] would be cheering. How quickly they forget!” Mr. Trump said regarding the muted reception Robert F. Kennedy Jr. received, forgetting that he had to bribe Mr. Kennedy for an endorsement, and that only a year ago Mr. Kennedy was calling him a fascist.
While Mr. Trump complained about “wokeness,” the Joint Chiefs of Staff sat looking like hostages. Bernie Sanders gave the meanest scowl I had ever seen.
Mr. Trump then begged Greenland to join the United States, claimed he thought “we were going to get it,” then ominously said that “one way or the other” America will get it. This subplot seems to be going somewhere terrible. If Mr. Trump truly has these intentions to claim Greenland for America, he ought to lay it all on the table and explain to the public what the fuck he is thinking. The country is not for sale, and hopefully we do not intend to go to war, so what, exactly, is the deal with this ominous bullshit?
Mr. Trump claimed that he was bringing to trial “the top terrorist” responsible for the attacks on servicemembers while the United States was withdrawing from Afghanistan according to Mr. Trump’s timetable. One wonders if this “top terrorist” was one of the Taliban prisoners Mr. Trump set loose.
Mr. Trump, upset that America’s support for Ukraine received a standing ovation from even the Republicans in the room, took a needless shot at Senator Elizabeth Warren, who politely applauded.
Mr. Vance’s ugly smile at seeing a former colleague insulted reminded me of a pervert in a strip club. Something has seriously twisted inside this man—he was not this unkind only a few years ago. Ironically, this desire to emulate Mr. Trump’s worst qualities disqualifies him from succeeding the aged game show host, who first and foremost tries to seem fun, not nasty.
I was glad Mr. Trump celebrated Corey Comperatore, who died on the day Mr. Trump’s ear was shot. There is no secret snark here—that day is talked about so often as somehow providential, but a real man really died, and this was the real tragedy of the day. Thank you for that, Mr. Trump. I only wished the president had not immediately tried to turn it around and make it about himself and claim he was a messiah.
I believe this is the longest joint address in history, and certainly the most mendacious. Nearly every word was a lie, and even true things were made to seem false by association. The nastiness towards half the American public has ended whatever was left of his “honeymoon,” and will be paid back.
I suppose I am relieved he did not declare martial law or announce the beginning of mass arrests and executions—there were universes where this would have been even worse, and more evil. As-is, it was still the worst joint address I have ever seen.