Trump's first official State of the Union address was, shall we say, huge. We'll go through all of it, including the boos, the blowback, the Democratic response, and the media's total inability to cover it. Plus, a call-in from the Daily Wire's own Ben Shapiro on what he thought of the speech, and why he doesn't think it was a good one at all. Plus, we'll talk about why Bernie Sanders' response to Trump's speech was a complete disaster and why the media can't seem to get on board with the whole idea of a Democratic response to the president's first SOTU. And, of course, Ben will talk about how great Trump is at getting people to clap for him, and how the media is totally unimpressed with what he did, which is why it's so important that they don't even give him a chance to get a proper response from the other side. The Daily Wire is a place where Ben and I talk about anything and everything going on in the world, so you won't want to miss it! Subscribe to The Ben Shapiro Show on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe, Like, and Share! Ben Shapiro's new book, "The Devil Next Door" is out now! If you haven't already, you'll get 20% off your first month with the discount code: BONUS! at TheBenShaw. at checkout. That means 20% OFF the entire month of January through February, plus a 30 Day Money Back guarantee, plus an additional $5 off your next month's shipping discount when you sign up for a new month, and a FREE shipping offer when you buy $50 or more, you get a Surface Pro 3 membership! and get an extra $50 off the first month of the course gets you an ad-free version of the newbie gets an ad discount, and you get an additional 20% discount, plus they also get a FREE 7 days of the ad discount when they begin shipping that starts shipping free, they get the ad starts shipping starts starting on 7/online only they ship the deal starts in 7/27/27, they'll get $99, and they get an ad starts on the first two months they receive $29/month, they can choose that deal starts after they start shipping the deal, they also receive $99 or they get $49/month they get your first MBPROMO.
00:00:15.000Well, we had a lot of fun last night here at The Daily Wire.
00:00:18.000We did a full-on State of the Union watch party, and Trump gave a pretty good speech, and we all had a lot of fun.
00:00:24.000Well, I had less fun than the others because they were all smoking cigars.
00:00:26.000I'm not a cigar-smoking smoker, and so I got to inhale their secondhand smoke all evening long.
00:00:32.000Yet, nonetheless, a good time was had by all.
00:00:34.000You can go and view that entire thing over at Facebook.
00:00:38.000I believe we did it at YouTube as well.
00:00:41.000You can check that out, or you can download it, because I think that it's available on our podcast stream as well.
00:00:45.000So we'll get to everything Trump-related.
00:00:47.000We'll get to the State of the Union, what happened, the blowback, the responses from Joe Kennedy III, you know, that great scion of the Kennedy family, as well as Bernie Sanders' response, the media losing their mind.
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00:02:18.000Okay, so last night, President Trump gives his big first official State of the Union address.
00:02:25.000And when I say big, I mean it was huge.
00:02:27.000And when I say it was huge, I mean it was long.
00:03:06.00075% favored what they heard on national security.
00:03:08.000And 72% favored what they heard on immigration.
00:03:11.000That, by any measure, is a massive success for the president of the United States.
00:03:15.000So we're going to go through this, because there are really two aspects to the—three aspects, I think, to the Trump speech that are noteworthy.
00:03:20.000The good, one is the bad, and one is the ugly.
00:03:23.000The good is a lot of what Trump did here.
00:03:28.000Whoever wrote the speech did a great job of getting sympathetic victims in the stands.
00:03:32.000Everybody does the Ronald Reagan shtick, where you get a bunch of people who sit up there in their rafters, and then you say, and there's Bob.
00:03:44.000We'll talk about all the things Trump did right.
00:03:46.000We'll also talk about the Democrats' response, because the Democrats apparently had superglue attached to their asses.
00:03:51.000They literally did not get up for the entire speech.
00:03:54.000I mean, even on things where they agree, even on things like black unemployment is down and everybody's cheering, and then you look over and the Congressional Black Caucus is sitting.
00:04:02.000It's like, what are you, against black people working?
00:04:44.000He's more like George W. Bush than he is like Ronald Reagan on that score.
00:04:48.000He's certainly more like either of those than he is like Calvin Coolidge.
00:04:51.000He's not somebody who deeply cares about entitlements running out of control.
00:04:54.000He said this during the campaign, so he's been pretty obvious about the idea he doesn't mean to tamp down spending.
00:04:58.000He said in the speech that Obamacare is basically dead, which it isn't.
00:05:03.000He suggested in the speech that he wanted to blow out the spending on infrastructure to the tune of $1.5 trillion, which is not a conservative policy.
00:05:10.000He said he wanted paid parental and family leave.
00:05:12.000That is not a conservative policy, either.
00:05:14.000He didn't say one word about reducing the federal deficit or the federal debt.
00:05:17.000That's because that's tough political stuff, and Trump doesn't want to touch all that stuff.
00:05:22.000But we'll go through it a little bit more in detail.
00:05:24.000So, last night Trump walks out, and pretty much everybody stands and claps.
00:05:29.000There are some Democrats, particularly members of the CBC, who will stand and clap for Louis Farrakhan, but they won't stand and clap for the elected president of the United States.
00:05:37.000Trump walks out and he takes the stage.
00:05:39.000And the first thing he does is he lays out the fact that he's had a very good economic first year.
00:06:24.000And then Trump continues, and he's talking about the economy a little bit more.
00:06:28.000One of the things that I think was really fascinating about what he said here is he actually makes a case that was not made during the tax cut debate.
00:06:34.000This is why the polls were bad on the tax cuts.
00:06:36.000If you look at the actual poll numbers on the tax cuts, the poll numbers suggested that most Americans thought they were losing money on the tax cuts, which of course was not true.
00:06:44.000Nearly everybody gets money back thanks to the tax cuts.
00:06:48.000That's because the Republicans had failed to actually talk about what the tax bill would do for the average American family.
00:06:54.000They're talking in broad terms about what tax cuts do generally.
00:06:57.000Trump did a good job, I think, of summing that up last night.
00:06:59.000Typical family of four making $75,000 will see their tax bill reduced by $2,000, slashing their tax bill in half.
00:07:11.000In April, this will be the last time you will ever file under the old and very broken system, and millions of Americans will have more take-home pay starting next month.
00:07:29.000That fell mostly on Americans, making less than $50,000 a year, forcing them to pay tremendous penalties simply because they couldn't afford government-ordered health plans.
00:07:43.000We repealed the core of the disastrous Obamacare.
00:07:52.000Right, so this is all good stuff that the American people have to hear because the media have been making—
00:07:57.000A corrupt and untrue case that tax cuts hurt the American economy and that repeal of Obamacare's individual mandate is going to kill millions of Americans and all the rest of all of this.
00:08:05.000And Trump, I think, forcefully spoke back against this.
00:08:07.000Now the bad side of this is when Trump says the core of the disastrous Obamacare is gone.
00:08:12.000What that suggests is he's not going to do anything else on Obamacare, that basically he thinks his work is done here.
00:08:17.000But this is good stuff from the president.
00:08:19.000And then the president says something that I think a lot of Republicans have not been saying, which is, when you lower the corporate tax rate, you are going to make more money.
00:08:27.000When we lower the corporate tax rate, jobs come back to the United States.
00:08:31.000And not only do jobs come back, you're probably going to get a raise.
00:08:33.000So here's what Trump had to say about that.
00:08:35.000We slashed the business tax rate from 35% all the way down to 21% so American companies can compete and win against anyone else anywhere in the world.
00:08:49.000These changes alone are estimated to increase average family income by more than $4,000.
00:08:58.000That last statistic is the one that Republicans really should have been focusing on during the entire tax debate, is why is it that when you lower corporate tax rates, people's income goes up?
00:09:06.000Instead, they focused on the individual tax rates dropping.
00:09:09.000They should have been focusing on the really major change to the law, which was that major reduction in corporate tax rates.
00:09:32.000You know, the economy was already improving under President Obama, obviously.
00:09:35.000The stock market was up under President Obama.
00:09:36.000Job growth in 2016 was better than job growth in 2017 by a couple hundred thousand jobs.
00:09:42.000But the reason that wages are rising, the reason why businesses are hiring, the reason people feel a sense of optimism is because there's a sense of trust that the Republicans and Trump are not going to clock businesses in the back of the head.
00:09:53.000There's always the feeling with Democrats and with Obama that, from some angle,
00:09:57.000He was going to find a way to hit businesses because he didn't like businesses.
00:10:00.000You don't get that feeling with Trump, and that came out last night.
00:10:02.000OK, so I want to talk in a minute about some of the more dramatic moments of the Trump speech, because there were some really—there were some moments of tremendous drama in the Trump speech.
00:10:12.000We'll continue going through the State of the Union in just a second.
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00:11:35.000Okay, so back to President Trump's State of the Union address, which went over like gangbusters.
00:11:38.000So one of the things that Trump does, and he's always talked about doing this, and he actually did it well last night, is he always said that America needs a cheerleader.
00:11:46.000When people said, what does the president need to do?
00:11:48.000He'd say, America needs a cheerleader.
00:12:03.000Listen, the president has to do more than that, obviously.
00:12:05.000But one of the things that I think Trump does have the capacity to unify on is he does have a gut-level sense of nationalistic patriotism.
00:12:17.000You always got the sense from President Obama that he was more concerned with the flaws in America's thought patterns and in the American people than in the glories of them.
00:12:26.000Trump didn't spend any time lecturing Americans about the better angels of their nature, about this is not who we are, this kind of stuff.
00:12:31.000Instead, President Trump talked about the wonderful things about—it was a much more optimistic speech than Obama's.
00:12:36.000This is one of the great things about how the media has covered this.
00:12:40.000This speech was significantly more optimistic about the state of the United States than anything Obama ever said.
00:12:45.000Obama would always say the state of our union is strong, and then he would proceed to list off all of the racial problems that we had in the United States, and discrimination against women, and how America was still a backwards, racist, bigoted, homophobic country, and how we all had to fix that.
00:12:58.000Trump last night got up there, he said, listen, America's pretty awesome.
00:13:50.000So Trump calls on this young kid, Preston, who's sitting in the family box for Trump's speech.
00:13:56.000And this kid apparently has helped plant, helped put down something like 40,000 American flags on the graves of fallen service members.
00:14:06.000And Trump says this, and watch as the Democrats sit.
00:14:09.000Young patriots like Preston teach all of us about our civic duty as Americans.
00:14:15.000Preston's reverence for those who have served our nation reminds us of why we salute our flag, why we put our hands on our hearts for the Pledge of Allegiance, and why we proudly stand for the national anthem.
00:14:33.000Okay, and he looks over kind of concertedly at the Democrats as they sit there.
00:14:38.000The Democrats have painted themselves into a box.
00:14:40.000This is the problem with being both intersectional and anti-Trump.
00:14:43.000So, the Democrats have a couple of problems.
00:14:45.000Problem number one is that they've decided to define their entire—the personality of their party.
00:14:50.000They've decided to define that as, we hate Trump.
00:14:58.000But that's only going to matter every four years.
00:14:59.000The real question is, do people have a good sense of your party?
00:15:02.000Do they feel like yours is a party that cares about the United States?
00:15:05.000And when you see Democrats sitting, when you see Democrats sitting for, we proudly stand for the National Anthem, because they've boxed themselves into this idea that it's bad to say that we should stand for the National Anthem, most Americans don't buy that.
00:15:18.000Most Americans think that that's stupid.
00:15:21.000The fact is that the Democrats are doing this now because they've engaged in this intersectional politics of hate, in which they suggest that if you're a member of a minority group in the United States, then you rightly are sitting for the National Anthem or kneeling for the National Anthem.
00:15:35.000Democrats could have taken a middle position.
00:15:37.000The middle position would have been, we like to stand for the National Anthem.
00:15:40.000We think it's dumb not to stand for the National Anthem, but of course you have the right to disagree and not stand for the National Anthem.
00:15:44.000That's what they should have said about Colin Kaepernick.
00:15:46.000Instead, people, including Barack Obama,
00:15:48.000Most Americans don't think America is cruel and terrible.
00:15:56.000Most Americans think America is pretty damn great.
00:16:03.000I have a piece out at National Review today talking about all of the wonderful things that we benefit from here in the United States that even our grandparents didn't have.
00:16:10.000Like, things that you never think about.
00:16:13.000Your cell phone, that didn't exist 10 years ago, the form of cell phone that you have.
00:16:16.000The fact that you're listening to a podcast.
00:16:17.000Podcasting didn't exist 10 to 15 years ago.
00:16:20.000The fact that you may be watching this on a computer, using streaming.
00:16:24.000Streaming that didn't exist 15 or 20 years ago.
00:16:26.000That's because America is in a magnificent place.
00:16:28.000The Western civilization is a magnificent place.
00:16:30.000And that's true for people of all colors, and all sexual orientations, and all backgrounds.
00:16:34.000But Democrats don't believe that, because that undermines their case against Western civilization.
00:16:39.000He knew they weren't going to stand for the national anthem.
00:16:41.000It makes them look bad, as well it should.
00:16:44.000OK, so that's one of the good things that I think Trump did last night, was tweaking the Democrats on some of their intersectional extremism, and watching Cory Booker sit there and make nasty faces.
00:16:55.000Nancy Pelosi chewing her cud while he talks about the glories of the national anthem, Trump.
00:17:03.000So, then we get into one of Trump's boo-boos of the night.
00:17:07.000I think that Trump's big boo-boo of the night was he was attempting to do his populist shtick by talking about how he was going to spend tons of money on infrastructure.
00:17:13.000Again, the more telling point is not that Trump talked about infrastructure.
00:17:16.000We've had infrastructure week, at last calculation, seven times, I guess, during this administration.
00:17:21.000Tonight I'm calling on Congress to produce a bill that generates at least $1.5 trillion for the new infrastructure investment that our country so desperately needs.
00:17:47.000OK, so the Democrats don't even stand for that.
00:17:49.000So now he's talking about Democratic priorities, and they won't stand.
00:17:53.000Again, Trump is drawing a contrast, and the contrast is really telling.
00:17:56.000The most effective portion of the speech, the portion where Democrats do not understand this, they refuse to understand this, they are angry that they are being forced to reckon with it, is that most Americans are not in favor of illegal immigration.
00:18:08.000We may think that a lot of illegal immigrants came here for the right reasons.
00:18:10.000We may have sympathy for illegal immigrants.
00:18:12.000But most of us want to know who's coming into the country.
00:18:14.000And every person who is killed by an illegal immigrant is a person who should not have been killed in the United States because it is the job of the federal government to prevent people from entering here illegally.
00:18:23.000There are a lot of people, I'm sure, who enter gated communities not to do harm, but because they wander in or because they just want to go for a walk.
00:18:30.000But the reality is, if you live in a gated community, and your security doesn't do its job, and someone gets killed in your gated community, you're going to blame the people in charge of the gated community.
00:18:38.000America is still a gated community, as it has to be, because we have a welfare system.
00:18:42.000And because we have to protect the integrity of our voting process, too.
00:18:46.000Well, last night, President Trump did something, and he got booed by the Democrats for doing it.
00:18:49.000He pointed out that there are, in fact, people who have been victimized by illegal immigrants in the United States.
00:18:53.000And the Democrats were saying, well, this is because he's a racist.
00:18:57.000In the same speech, he made a proposal to Democrats that we should let in 1.8 million illegal immigrants, allow them to become citizens.
00:19:05.000Here is Donald Trump making a particular point, which is that there are victims of criminals who come into the United States illegally.
00:19:12.000Here tonight are two fathers and two mothers, Evelyn Rodriguez, Freddy Cuevas, Elizabeth Alvarado, and Robert Mickens.
00:19:23.000Their two teenage daughters, Kayla Cuevas,
00:19:26.000And Nisa Mickens were close friends on Long Island.
00:19:31.000But in September 2016, on the eve of Nisa's 16th birthday — such a happy time it should have been — neither of them came home.
00:19:45.000These two precious girls were brutally murdered while walking together in their hometown.
00:19:53.000Six members of the savage MS-13 gang have been charged with Kayla and Nisa's murders.
00:20:03.000Many of these gang members took advantage of glaring loopholes in our laws to enter the country as illegal, unaccompanied, alien minors and wound up in Kayla and Nisa's high school.
00:20:23.000Elizabeth, Freddie, and Robert, tonight everyone in this chamber is praying for you.
00:20:30.000Everyone in America is grieving for you.
00:20:33.000I want you to know that 320 million hearts are right now breaking for you.
00:20:39.000But we cannot imagine the depths of that kind of sorrow.
00:20:44.000We can make sure that other families never have to endure this kind of pain.
00:20:51.000And Democrats, of course, were very unhappy with all this.
00:20:53.000This was Trump doing the storytelling routine that Reagan did better than anybody, I think, since Reagan, actually.
00:20:58.000I think that what Trump did here by pointing out people in the audience, not just a guy who started a business, but people who have actually been victimized by bad policy,
00:21:06.000I think it was tremendously effective.
00:21:07.000If you watched this and you weren't moved by the plight of these families, if you watched them in their heartbreak and you didn't think, well, maybe we should be able to do something about this, then I don't think that you were watching with an open mind or an open heart.
00:21:20.000So Trump, I think, did exactly the right thing.
00:21:23.000Now, in just a second, we're going to continue by talking about a little bit more on illegal immigration, a couple more stories that Trump told.
00:21:29.000Again, I think he used the storytelling art at levels that we have not seen, actually, since Reagan in American politics, which is an amazing thing for me to say, because I don't think that Trump's a particularly good speaker.
00:21:38.000But we'll get to all of that in just a second.
00:21:40.000First, I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at MyPatriotSupply.
00:21:43.000So we are only a couple of weeks into 2018.
00:22:22.000Okay, so the President of the United States,
00:22:47.000Using his storytelling capacity to do some serious damage to the Democratic agenda.
00:22:54.000I think that the most polarizing and also the most successful line of his speech last night came when he was talking again about illegal immigration.
00:23:00.000And what he suggested is, listen, I have a lot of sympathy for illegal immigrants, right?
00:23:04.000People who are trying to come to this country to make a better life for themselves and cross the border illegally.
00:23:08.000I'm happy to legalize 1.8 million of them, like today, if Democrats will make a deal, but
00:23:12.000But we have to protect American citizens first.
00:23:15.000And it's this sort of baseline root logic that Republicans see, I think, most independents see.
00:23:22.000But the Democratic Party refuses to see.
00:23:24.000We'll talk about that when we get to Joe Kennedy's response, because it really is quite insipid and insane.
00:23:29.000But here last night was President Trump using language that ticked off the media, but I think most Americans heard.
00:23:35.000So tonight, I am extending an open hand to work with members of both parties
00:23:41.000Democrats and Republicans, to protect our citizens of every background, color, religion, and creed.
00:23:49.000My duty and the sacred duty of every elected official in this chamber is to defend Americans, to protect their safety, their families, their communities, and their right to the American dream.
00:24:15.000And because Democrats didn't like it, it's a problem for them.
00:24:17.000Most Americans still think that Americans ought to be taken care of before we talk about how we take care of foreign citizens, which makes sense.
00:24:26.000Now, one of the things that was really incredible about how Trump used storytelling last night, you know, Bush did it, Obama did it.
00:24:32.000They all do the Reagan routine, as I say, of putting people up in the rafters and then pointing at them and saying, look at this wonderful person, let's clap.
00:24:40.000Trump, you know, he's been using the slogan, the forgotten men and women of the country, throughout the entire campaign.
00:24:45.000And I thought that he misused it when he talked about people who are living in small towns, and they've lost their jobs, and these are the forgotten men and women.
00:24:51.000I'll tell you who have been forgotten.
00:24:52.000People who believe in American values, like sort of traditional American values.
00:24:57.000The belief that America is a place of liberty.
00:25:00.000The people who make small sacrifices that don't show up on the national scale, but who are doing the everyday work of making America a better place.
00:25:07.000And some of the stories that were being told last night were so eloquent in what they said that they said more than even what Trump said.
00:25:15.000So one example of that last night was he talked about the Hollettes family.
00:25:36.000Donald Trump, without ever mentioning the word abortion, without ever suggesting pro-life, without talking about termination of a pregnancy, makes an eloquent case for life by telling the story of the Halletts family, who are true American heroes.
00:25:48.000We see a vivid expression of this truth in the story of the Holetz family of New Mexico.
00:25:57.000Ryan Holetz is 27 years old, an officer with the Albuquerque Police Department.
00:26:04.000He's here tonight with his wife, Rebecca.
00:26:08.000Last year, Ryan was on duty when he saw a pregnant, homeless woman preparing to inject heroin.
00:26:16.000When Ryan told her she was going to harm her unborn child, she began to weep.
00:26:23.000She told him she didn't know where to turn, but badly wanted a safe home for her baby.
00:26:32.000In that moment, Ryan said he felt God speak to him.
00:27:38.000It's quite possible that he was drawing a contrast between North Korea and the United States, particularly in light of the fact that Democrats keep saying over and over that Trump is a sort of Kim Jong-un figure or that America is driving toward a North Korean solution, which of course is absolute nonsense.
00:27:50.000So Trump brought the family of Otto Warmbier, you remember.
00:27:54.000Warmbier was a University of Virginia student who was tortured and murdered by the North Korean regime.
00:27:59.000But the clip of the night, the one that actually made all the headlines, was him talking about a North Korean refugee, this is clip 11, who was attempting to escape North Korea and what he had to go through in order to reach freedom.
00:28:11.000Sung Ho traveled thousands of miles on crutches all across China and Southeast Asia to freedom.
00:29:09.000To the yearning of every human soul to live in freedom.
00:29:27.000of this young North Korean lifting his crutches, the ones that he used to walk thousands of miles out of North Korea, is an amazing, amazing image.
00:29:36.000And it's a reminder of what America is.
00:29:38.000Now, that's what this speech really was last night.
00:29:40.000That's not the way that the Democrats and the media treated it.
00:29:42.000The way the Democrats and the media treated it was as though it was the worst thing that they had ever seen.
00:30:15.000The worst moment, of course, is Luis Gutierrez, the representative who actually fled the State of the Union when people started chanting USA.
00:31:06.000We're going to get to the media fallout, which is just insipid and insane.
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00:33:05.000Because that's not what I saw last night.
00:33:06.000I'm not sure what speech Cory Booker was watching, except that he has on his Tears of Rage glasses, and so all he could see was through those tears of rage, evil and horror.
00:34:36.000Beginning a discussion about immigration in a country of immigrants with crime.
00:34:40.000And that was his way of opening up the discussion, like, I'm protecting us from criminal elements.
00:34:45.000I thought that got very ugly about that point.
00:34:48.000I'm very ugly that he mentions MS-13 as though it's not a problem in the United States.
00:34:51.000Again, Trump did not label all immigrants MS-13.
00:34:53.000He said he wanted to let 1.8 million illegal immigrants remain in the country as a whole.
00:34:59.000So, we're going to get to more media response.
00:35:01.000We're going to get to everything related to the Democratic responses, which were really, I thought Joe Kennedy's particularly was quite terrible.
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00:37:13.000The good news is that when it comes to the State of the Union Address, so many more people watch it than read about it the next day that it doesn't really matter very much.
00:37:19.000But it just shows you the insane level of bias.
00:37:42.000That's just a bad way to start a speech by a Kennedy descendant.
00:37:46.000They have a bad history with cars that have been submerged in water, for example.
00:37:51.000Other things to point out, you'll see, as Joe Kennedy speaks, that he was supposedly drooling, but he used, actually, like a vat of ChapStick, and so his mouth is shiny while he gives this speech.
00:38:01.000Unfortunately, he didn't have the full-on Kennedy-Mayor Quimby from The Simpsons accent, because that would have made it much more amusing.
00:38:07.000But he was as radical leftist as possible to be.
00:38:09.000He decided to respond to Trump not by saying,
00:38:12.000You know, President Trump said a lot of nice things.
00:38:14.000Like, these people write their speeches before they actually see Trump's.
00:38:16.000So what they should have said is they should have said, listen, if I were a Democrat, here's what I would say.
00:38:20.000President Trump said a lot of nice things about the economy.
00:38:29.000Also, the president talked a lot about unity and bringing the country together.
00:38:32.000But no one has been more divisive than this president.
00:38:34.000And then I would go down the list of all the terrible, divisive things that President Trump has supposedly done and said.
00:38:39.000And I'd point out that there is a character flaw in the modern Republican Party that allows for this sort of thing, right?
00:38:43.000You want to make the argument on character grounds, because people vote on character grounds.
00:38:47.000Instead, Democrats are trapped in this intersectionality nonsense.
00:38:51.000And so, instead of going after Trump for all the things he said, they decide that they have to stand up for all these intersectional groups.
00:38:56.000So here is Joe Kennedy pandering to the Me Too movement and the Pussyhat crowd and pandering to Black Lives Matter, a group that is extraordinarily radical.
00:41:41.000In fact, Trump was the one who was saying that Americans are worthy of protection.
00:41:45.000It's you who are saying that we're going to tear down the walls that prevent people from entering the country illegally.
00:41:49.000And then, of course, Kennedy addressed DREAMers directly in Spanish.
00:41:52.000And then he said, you're part of our story, we'll fight for you, and we will not walk away.
00:41:55.000Trump was saying in his speech, we will fight for Americans, and Kennedy was saying in his speech, we'll fight for everyone who's outside the country, basically.
00:42:03.000We're gonna fight also for the most radical elements of American society.
00:42:06.000Pretty astonishing that this is what Democrats choose to trot forward with.
00:42:10.000If they think that they can defeat Trump with this sort of radicalism, I'm not sure that that's the case.
00:42:14.000I think that they are much better off running somebody who at least purports to unify the country, as opposed to continuing the polarization of intersectional politics that Barack Obama pursued.
00:42:25.000I mean, it was filled with usual stupidities, but it's—this is—I think even Bernie Sanders looked tired last night.
00:42:32.000I mean, Sanders gave a response, and Sanders always looks tired because he's a thousand years old and did not have his proper share of pudding last night before he gave his State of the Union response address.
00:42:41.000He should have been focusing, as I say, on character issues and also on the 1% and sustainable growth and all the rest of this.
00:42:47.000But he has to just go down the progressive talking points list instead.
00:42:51.000I mean, it was Trump's night, and it was pretty obvious it was Trump's night from Sanders' response.
00:42:55.000Sanders spends time ripping on Trump for not talking about climate change.
00:42:58.000When you look at the polls, climate change is like number 11, number 13 on Americans' list of concerns.
00:43:03.000But that's where Bernie Sanders chooses to go.
00:43:06.000Now I don't understand how a President of the United States can give a State of the Union speech and not mention climate change.
00:43:17.000No, Mr. Trump, climate change is not a hoax.
00:43:22.000It is a reality which is causing devastating harm all over our country and all over the world.
00:45:18.000So this is a pretty fantastic piece, obviously.
00:45:20.000It was written maybe as early as 1704, when Bach was still in his teens.
00:45:24.000There's some people who say that it maybe was dated in the 1740s.
00:45:29.000In any case, it was only really rediscovered in the 1800s.
00:45:33.000And Felix Mendelssohn, a great composer in his own right, will have to do a week of Mendelssohn music, because I love Mendelssohn's music.
00:45:40.000It was rediscovered in the 1800s and recaptured.
00:45:43.000So much of Western thought is involved in rediscovery of old ideas and renewal of those old ideas.
00:45:48.000And that is true in politics as well as in music.
00:45:50.000One of the problems with modern music is that we've essentially abandoned all the old ideas about tonality and form and the developed natural ear and all the rest of this.
00:46:01.000Instead, we've decided to focus in on what is most convenient.
00:46:05.000We've focused in on energy in the pop sphere, or we've focused in on abstruse nonsense in the classical sphere.
00:46:10.000And when you listen to great classical music of the past, there's a reason it has driving power, and that's because it resonates with the human soul in a way that modern music simply doesn't.
00:46:17.000Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:46:23.000So, number one thing I hate, Trey Gowdy is apparently leaving the House.
00:46:48.000He says he's going to go back to his practice of law.
00:46:51.000A good public servant is Trey Gowdy, and that's too bad to see him go.
00:46:54.000In other news, Hillary Clinton, last night—I mean, talk about just a document dump—in the middle of the State of the Union address, or right before it, she dumped a giant Facebook post essentially apologizing for protecting a campaign subordinate who is sexually preying on young women.
00:47:08.000So she waited until the middle of the State of the Union to dump it.
00:47:10.000I wonder why she was so unpopular and lost to President Trump.
00:47:48.000I mean, Hillary Clinton is just awful at everything, and her awfulness extends to launching complete disavowals, essentially, of her Me Too moment in the middle of the State of the Union Address in an attempt to bury it under Trump's big, shining hour.
00:48:02.000So, we'll be back here tomorrow with all of the fallout.