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For House Majority Leader, Rep. Nancy Pelosi has responded to President Trump’s State of the Union address.
Immediately after Trump’s address, Pelosi did an interview with CNN where she wasted no time in ripping Trump’s speech.
Pelosi claimed Trump’s speech was “lazy” and took jabs at the President over his Big Beautiful Big.
She also criticized him for not speaking longer about Ukraine.
Good morning! Welcome. This is Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026, the morning after the night before. Kinda. Quite a night last night, but I’ll get to that. First, though, what has become a tradition for this column, Today In History:
The hideous thug Rep. Ilhan Omar heckled at President Trump during his SOTU speech. President Trump is 100 percent correct. Rep Ilhan Omar is garbage. As is the Keffiyeh clad Rep. Rashida Tlaib, who whore a ‘Fuck Ice’ pin at the speech.
What lowlifes. How are these seditious criminals still in this country?
Without the illegal vote, the jihad caucus would never have been elected.
She married her brother. Deport her.
President Donald Trump blasted Democrats and the gender transition industry Tuesday night during his State of the Union speech.
“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. Who can believe that we’re even talking about it? We must ban it, and we must ban it immediately,” Trump said in a video posted to X.
Trump then glared at Democratic lawmakers who refused to applaud protecting children.
TRUMP: “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.”
*Democrats stay seated*
TRUMP: “Look, nobody stands up. These people are crazy. I’m telling you, they’re crazy!” pic.twitter.com/3PPqvhaOn8
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) February 25, 2026
“For weeks, social media was flooded with these wonderful patriots. Videos of unicyclers, naked bike riders, the guy in the chicken suit, and a whole lot of frogs,” he said.
At an event held by Democrat lawmakers on Tuesday night in protest of the State of the Union, Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon was heard praising the anti-ICE “patriots” of Portland that swarmed the city’s ICE facility after Trump’s announcement that he was deploying troops to protect it.
“The day we heard Trump was deploying troops to Portland, we rushed over to the ICE facility because, based on Trump’s Truth Social, we expected to just see a violent mob. But apparently, one guy in a chicken costume is what Trump considers a war zone.”
“For weeks, social media was flooded with these wonderful patriots. Videos of unicyclers, naked bike riders, the guy in the chicken suit, and a whole lot of frogs,” he added, with people dressed in inflatable frog costumes flanking him on stage.
“No war zone to be found. Friends, when Donald Trump sent his agents to the streets of Portland, we took on authoritarianism ’cause we had the frogs and we won,” he said.
President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address drew strong support from viewers Tuesday night, according to a CNN poll conducted by SSRS, reinforcing that his message on border security and economic reform continues to resonate with his base.
Nearly two-thirds of those who watched said they had at least a somewhat positive reaction to the speech, with 38% describing their response as very positive. While media outlets were quick to note the audience skewed Republican, that has long been the case for State of the Union viewers, who typically tune in because they are engaged and invested.
More importantly, Trump appears to have strengthened confidence among those watching.
Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) reacted angrily during President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address after he spotlighted massive fraud schemes in Minnesota and announced a new federal “war on fraud.”
“When it comes to the corruption that has been plundering America, there is no more stunning example than what’s been happening in Minnesota,” President Trump said.
The president was referring to a series of high-profile public welfare fraud cases in the state, including Somali-led schemes tied to federal pandemic relief programs.
DAY 3
It has not been a good week for Democrats. The clownishness, hystericism, and self defeat has not sputtered even slightly.
We’re now in Day 3 and it shows no signs of slowing down.
Trump delivered his SOTU last night. It spanned two hours. I want to say up front straight away: Most SOTU’s have almost no tangible effect on politics. They’re largely just public exhibitions. Their most tangible effect is on media programming for a week. Beyond that, it’s usually bupkis.
Actor Robert De Niro called President Donald Trump “the enemy of this country,” and urged Americans to “resist” the president who won the 2024 election in a landslide victory, proclaiming, “It’s up to us to get rid of him.”
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President Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union address since his triumphant return in 2024’s presidential election on Tuesday night and television viewers liked what they saw.
A CNN Instant Poll taken in the immediate aftermath confirmed that fact with some 64 percent of those polled affirming Trump is moving the country in the right direction.
Pre-speech only 54 percent of watchers said he was moving the country to their liking such was the impact of his words and deeds.
This result confounded critics who CNN’s own Abby Phillip who sneered at the president.
She called Trump bestowing the Presidential Medal of Freedom, two Medals of Honor, two Purple Hearts, and the Legion of Merit “gameshow type moments” that “he had to do” because his other messages are a “hard pill for Americans to swallow.”
Clearly viewers felt otherwise.
There were very few moments that led to bipartisan standing on Tuesday night, and one of them was President Donald Trump’s call to stop insider trading in Congress.
It got Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts to stand up, even. Which had Trump asking the question: Did former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California representative, stand up?
It doesn’t appear that way — and Pelosi herself answered with a word salad when asked about it on CNN after the speech.
During his State of the Union address last night, President Trump touted many of the things going well in America, thanks to his administration. One of those things was the historically low murder rates we’re seeing.
As tradition, the opposition party gave its rebuttal following the President’s State of the Union address.
This year, the speech was given by Democrat Governor Abigail Spanberger from Virginia.
In her speech, the newly elected Governor spent most of her time calling out the Trump administration for its immigration polices.
She also claimed that, under Trump, Americans are now in an affordability crisis.
Fox News provided an overview of her speech:
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger slammed President Donald Trump over his mass deportation operations in her official Democratic response to the State of the Union and repeated claims her party favors “affordability” even as the Old Dominion sees scores of new taxes.
Spanberger, elected in November to succeed conservative Gov. Glenn Youngkin, has sought to claim the mantle of “affordability,” even as she and Richmond Democrats move to enact or raise new taxes in multiple forms.
Speaking from the original historic House of Burgesses at the head of Colonial Williamsburg’s Duke of Gloucester Street, Spanberger noted how in 1705, the colony first gathered with the “extraordinary task of governing themselves.”
“The United States was founded on the idea that ordinary people could reject the unacceptable excesses of poor leadership, band together to demand better of their government, and create a nation that would be an example for the world,” she said, contrasting that vision with what Trump has brought.
“Tonight, as we watched our nation’s lawmakers gather for a joint session of Congress, we did not hear the truth from our president,” she said, going on to rhetorically ask three questions:
“Is the President working to make life more affordable for you and your family? Is the President working to keep Americans safe — both at home and abroad? Is the President working for you?”
Spanberger recounted her 2025 election season, traveling around Virginia and addressing, “housing, healthcare, energy and childcare.”
She blamed Trump’s tariff policies for increasing costs, and claimed it has been Republicans trying to “make your life more expensive.”
In June, a Pennsylvania woman appeared in federal court in connection with a $1 million-plus home care fraud scheme. Hemal Patel was charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiracy to violate the federal anti-kickback statute. The 59-year-old Bucks County resident, according to the U.S Attorney’s Office for Pennsylvania’s Eastern District, pocketed payments for referring patients to home care agencies. Patel and others schemed to fraudulently bill Medicaid for ghost home care services.
The scam targeted Pennsylvania’s Community HealthChoices, which uses Medicaid funds to pay for home- and community-based personal assistance services for individuals with disabilities to help keep them out of nursing homes, according to court filings. Patel was one of hundreds of people charged in the Department of Justice’s National Health Care Fraud Takedown, the largest sweep of its kind covering some $14.6 billion in intended Medicaid losses.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump broke his own record for a president’s longest-ever State of the Union speech at 108 minutes.
Trump began speaking at 9:11 p.m. ET and concluded his remarks at 10:59 p.m. ET, eclipsing the record he set in his 2025 joint address to Congress at 100 minutes on the dot, according to Axios.
For 25 years before that, former President Bill Clinton’s 2000 address was the longest at 89 minutes. Other marathon State of the Union addresses, per Axios, include:
The state of the union is fantastic and hashtag this is what I voted for. The “State of the Union” is, R or D, the most useless piece of political theatre that We The People put ourselves through. However, if you’re going to put on a show, it helps to have the world’s greatest song-and-dance man on your side. Donald Trump took the pomp and circumstance of the event and the Democrat party’s telegraphed theatrics and crammed both down the throats of haters and losers alike. CNN was the hardest hit.
Democrat leaders advertised that they told members NOT to stand up an aplaud anything Trump did. It’s been the Democrat tactic since George W. Bush. He was literally Hitler before Trump was literally Hitler. Also, before John McCain and Mitt Romney were literally Hitler. The jury is still out if JD Vance or Marco Rubio will be the next literally Hitler, but I digress.
CBS News’ Major Garrett reported that the GOP gameplan going into the State of the Union was to, and I quote, “Make sure Americans after this speech had a sense that the opposition party was off the rails [and] crazy.” While Trump was doing that, the opposition party was counter-programming dressed as animals and chanting “F*ck ICE.” Why? Because the opposition party is super serious people who demand you take them super seriously.
Most observers predicted the recent Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruling striking down President Trump’s International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) tariffs; however, the decision raises new doubts and questions about trade with the United States for exporters from countries like South Korea. This explainer discusses what the recent ruling means for trade between South Korea and the United States and how South Korea may respond to relations with the U.S. in the coming days.
Agentic AI is quickly moving from demo to deployment inside the Department of Defense. But what does it actually mean to give AI “agency” — and what does it take to make those systems work on real military networks?
In this episode, Ryan sits down with Ben Van Roo, co-founder and CEO of Legion Intelligence, Jags Kandasamy, co-founder and CEO of Latent AI, and Aaron Brown, co-founder and CEO of Lumbra AI, to discuss why the real challenge is not just building smart models but getting AI agents to run on military networks and inside operational workflows. They cover deploying agents in denied environments, compressing models for the edge, orchestrating them across stovepiped systems, and the Pentagon’s struggle to scale and buy these tools fast enough to matter.
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“Through your hands comes the relief for the believers and the killing of the infidels by your sword.”
While the NYPD is being attacked with balls of ice…..
He was at the Al-Khoei Islamic Center in Queens.
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has unveiled his new budget — and it’s every bit as ridiculous as BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales anticipated.
“On another episode of ‘I told you so,’ it took less than two months for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to turn, I think, into a Batman villain,” Gonzales jokes.
“You guys are going to be shocked to hear this. You’re going to be shocked to hear all of these promises of free everything, free child schools, free child care, free schools, free buses, all the free s**t, doesn’t have enough money to pay for all of the free,” she explains.
“So he’s announced that he’s basically taking the entire city hostage, and if the state government doesn’t give into his demands and implement his billionaire tax, he’s going to make you pay,” she continues.
“For those who have watched budget after budget, it is tempting to assume that we are engaging in the same dance as our predecessors. Let me assure you, nothing about this is typical. That’s why our solutions won’t be either. There are two paths to bridge this gap. The first is the most sustainable and the fairest path,” Mamdani explained at New York City Hall.
Iranian university students for the last two days have engaged in a new wave of anti-government demonstrations across the country, marking the first major rallies since a violent state crackdown in January.
The protests have reportedly taken place on at least seven campuses as students demand increased political freedom, leading to confrontations with government loyalists, according to various news reports, citing videos of the incidents.
The protests “come as Iran’s clerical leaders struggle to manage uprisings at home and a looming risk of war with Washington,” the New York Times reported.
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is sounding the alarm after reviewing the full, unredacted Jeffrey Epstein files, warning that the documents expose horrifying acts committed by powerful elites.
Boebert spoke about the “gross” revelations during an appearance on the talk show “Real Time with Bill Maher.”
During the show, the discussion turned to the latest Epstein Files.
A student believed to be part of an anti-ICE walkout in West Palm Beach, Florida, was hit by a car Monday and suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
Police said officers responded to the incident around 12:30 p.m. near the South Wind Plaza on North Military Trail, CBS 12 reported Monday.
The driver remained at the scene, and the young person was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
Video footage showed firefighters and police officers surrounding the student, who was lying on the ground as traffic passed. The minor was reportedly a student from Palm Beach Lakes Community High School:
“The minor being struck by a vehicle comes as hundreds of students from at least four Palm Beach County high schools took to the streets in coordinated protest against ICE. The schools involved were reported to be Lake Worth Beach High School, John I. Leonard High School, Royal Palm Beach High School, and Palm Beach Lakes High School,” the CBS article said.
President Donald Trump said Thursday that the United States will contribute $10 billion toward the Board of Peace.
Trump made his announcement during the board’s second official meeting, the first convening of the group in Washington, D.C.
“The United States is going to make a contribution of $10 billion to the Board of Peace,” said Trump. “We’ve had great support for that number and that number is a very small number when you look at that, compared to the cost of war. That’s two weeks of fighting.”
A video of New York Police Department officers getting pelted with snowballs by residents went viral Monday evening, and critics are blaming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s anti-police rhetoric.
The video circulating on social media shows a group of people in Washington Square Park engaging in what began as a spontaneous snowball fight after heavy snowfall hit the city, and then turning their attention toward uniformed officers who had arrived at the scene.
NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said in an X post that the department is aware of the incident, calling it “criminal,” and said detectives are investigating the matter.