Trump's Inaugural address to the joint session of Congress on January 20th was a barnburner. President Trump took the stage in the House of Representatives chamber and delivered a powerful message to the nation. The three branches of government were represented in one room in the Capitol, and the entire power structure was on its feet.
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00:01:20.000All of the impediments that the Democrats are going to throw up.
00:01:24.000Now we see this a lot, where Democrats refuse to stand, Democrats refuse to applaud, but it's worse than ever.
00:01:32.000And literally there was one moment where Donald Trump called out a young man with brain cancer becoming an agent of the Secret Service, and Democrats still did not stand up and applaud.
00:01:41.000If you will not stand up and applaud for a young boy who becomes a member of the Secret Service in an honorary way...
00:01:47.000There's something really sick and messed up about you.
00:03:01.000Instant analysis, Jack, as Miss Daisy is doing all of the aesthetic adjustments here.
00:03:09.000Jack, your reaction to this historic address tonight from President Trump?
00:03:13.000Yeah, so first of all, Charlie, I think you hit the nail on the head in terms of the macro.
00:03:19.000Not only is this a cap on a remarkable year in 2024, but also it's a cap on a remarkable four-year period, an interregnum.
00:03:30.000Remember the last time President Trump was giving a speech in this same chamber, Nancy Pelosi was...
00:03:35.000Tearing it apart and throwing it on the floor.
00:03:38.000And now Nancy Pelosi is sitting up in the cheap seats crying.
00:03:42.000This is a man who the entire world had written off.
00:03:47.000This is a man who the entire DC power structure, the power structure that you say there assembled, one of the only times all year that you'll see this, by the way, the three branches represented in one room there in the Capitol.
00:04:01.000They said this man was done, that Trumpism was a fluke, that MAGA was done, that it would never return.
00:04:06.000And yet, in really not that long at all, it's right back, but back in full dominating command.
00:04:14.000And this was a command performance from President Trump.
00:04:19.000Even the Democrats were stuck simply reacting to him.
00:04:21.000And I think one of the key things that a lot of people are leaving out, and I know folks will, and it's already trending, of course, all over Twitter, that people are talking about how they're all, it's the stunt, The Democrats are performing stunt after stunt and trying to be disruptive and holding up placards and all this.
00:04:47.000The things that President Trump are doing are popular.
00:04:51.000Their own polls indicate this, that the American people widely support what he is doing.
00:04:57.000This election wouldn't have come down the way that he did, winning the popular vote, going seven for seven in the swing states, if they didn't actually want the things that he is currently doing.
00:05:07.000And that's why the Democrats are sitting there flailing about because they are in absolute panic mode.
00:05:17.000And all they can do is basically sit there and jeer because they have no actual response to the work of the American people that's being done by President Trump, J.D. Vance, and yes, even Speaker Johnson.
00:05:30.000So I want to just make sure this is framed correctly for that this was not a technical State of the Union address.
00:05:37.000This was the kind of setup of the administration.
00:05:41.000I mean, first the news-gathering item of Al Green trying to interrupt and interject, but the Democrats just looked like angry hall monitors.
00:06:07.000Have we ever seen, let's just say, since Obama, the Democrat Party this week, this disunified, demoralized, just they are a bitter shell for themselves.
00:06:20.000Almost as if they're a permanent minoritarian faction.
00:06:31.000Because of their TDS, and I know it's cliche at this point, but it's really true, on the losing side of just about every 70-30 issue, sometimes 80-20 issue, and they've dug their heels in, they're doubling down on stupid, and they just keep going for it.
00:06:45.000I mean, you know, proof positive is the fact that you were just invited on the Gavin Newsom podcast to explain why they're losing so bad.
00:06:54.000And why you're drawing crowds of 3,000, 4,000, 5,000 students on these blue campuses.
00:07:53.000Let's get to some of the tape here, just to kind of, you know, if people are just tuning in, they had stuff to do, they were at practice or whatever.
00:07:59.000Let's just kind of go through some of the tape here.
00:10:02.000I just want to run through this just to kind of reestablish the vibe.
00:10:05.000President Donald Trump continued by talking about how he declared an emergency on the southern border, something that the Democrats do not like and they don't support.
00:10:15.000Play cut 120. Within hours of taking the oath of office, I declared a national emergency on our southern border, and I deployed the U.S. military and border patrol to repel the invasion of our country.
00:11:01.000In comparison, under Joe Biden, the worst president in American history, there were hundreds of thousands of illegal crossings a month, and virtually all of them, including murderers, drug dealers, gang members, and people from mental institutions and insane asylums, were released into our country.
00:11:25.000Blake, so we can go into more detail here, but just more broadly, we're talking about Doge, America's back.
00:11:31.000What do you think of the vibe, the tone that President Trump struck here?
00:11:34.000It feels as if he's resolutely on offense and not letting up.
00:12:05.000What it would be is we would want the people of Greenland to agitate for independence and then say, you know, we'll accept you if you were to obtain independence.
00:16:49.000But it's worth it to let people know that there are some of us who are going to stand up against this president's desire to cut Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security.
00:18:32.000A lot of these people that have been trying to put Donald Trump behind bars were right there.
00:18:36.000Let's play Cut 121. We've ended weaponized government where, as an example, a sitting president is allowed to viciously prosecute his political opponent, like me.
00:20:04.000The point being that it's now not just unethical so that it's wrong, but what Trump might have done is that it actually could create a political force that could displace you, meaning that it's now politically dangerous to do this.
00:20:18.000I think, given how aggressive the left got, kind of the best way to check it is a sense of mutually assured destruction.
00:20:26.000And if there is a fear that if you go...
00:20:29.000Way beyond the bounds of what can remotely be justified, that you'll get vaporized by the DOJ in some way, that will encourage polite behavior.
00:20:38.000An armed society is a polite society, as a lot of gun rights activists like to say, and we can have...
00:20:59.000Well, I mean, I would say that my read on it is their overreaction to Trump, even as he's been president, they're saying he's weaponizing the DOJ, Kash Patel, whatever.
00:21:09.000It's simply a projection of their own guilt onto themselves.
00:21:12.000Because they know that they acted out of line.
00:23:28.000It is a way that Democrats and people in Washington, D.C., and anyone who's been...
00:23:33.000You guys have all spent time in D.C. recently.
00:23:35.000It's a way of indicating that you're on the same team as someone when you match this weird D.C. bi-coastal inflection, but specifically one that travels between the D.C. Georgetown...
00:23:49.000Area where you are putting pronunciation on strange words.
00:23:55.000And then if you're Chris Hayes, what you will do is at the end of every sentence, you will then go up and you will say Elon Musk.
00:24:06.000It's like you're getting scared as you're saying the word or something.
00:24:56.000And once again, I look at the Democrats in front of me and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy or to make them stand or smile or applaud.
00:25:10.000I could find a cure to the most devastating disease, a disease that would wipe out entire nations or announce the answers to the greatest economy in history.
00:25:23.000Or the stoppage of crime to the lowest levels ever recorded.
00:25:27.000And these people sitting right here will not clap, will not stand, and certainly will not cheer for these astronomical achievements.
00:27:31.000This is the one that, it was so powerful.
00:27:33.000You know the best moment because the Democrats have to go all in on it, where President Trump appoints 13-year-old DJ Daniel, who has brain cancer and only months to live, as an honorary Secret Service agent.
00:27:45.000And the MSNBC decides to go all in attacking this kid.
00:27:50.000Well, attacking Trump for celebrating.
00:27:52.000No, I'm saying I hope he never has to defend the United States Capitol against Trump supporters.
00:28:38.000Since that time, D.J. and his dad have been on a quest to make his dream come true, and D.J. has been sworn in as an honorary law enforcement officer actually a number of times.
00:30:05.000Play cut 143. I think this was a lesson in finding one thing that you let yourself feel, and I let myself feel joy about DJ, and I hope he's alive for another, you know, 95 years, right?
00:30:27.000And maybe when you have childhood cancer, that crystallizes for you.
00:30:31.000And I hope he has a long life as a law enforcement officer.
00:30:34.000But I hope he never has to defend the United States Capitol against Donald Trump's supporters.
00:30:39.000And if he does, I hope he isn't one of the six who loses his life to suicide.
00:30:44.000And I hope he isn't one who has to testify against the people who carried out acts of seditious conspiracy and then lived to see Donald Trump pardon those people.
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00:36:25.000133. We're joined tonight by a young man, Jason Hartley, who knows the weight of that call of duty.
00:36:34.000Jason's father, grandfather, and great-grandfather all wore the uniform.
00:36:39.000Jason tragically lost his dad, who was also a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy when he was just a boy, and now he wants to carry on the family legacy of service.
00:37:23.000I don't know how you can hate on that.
00:37:25.000If you're a Democrat and you didn't get up, I mean, I didn't see the crowd shot in that moment, but if you're a Democrat and you didn't get up, I mean, how do you not celebrate that?
00:37:33.000It's America's preeminent military academy, and this young man just had his dreams come true.
00:37:55.000And by the way, you saw that with the young cancer survivor, DJ. When they told him he got to be an honorary member of the U.S. Secret Service, and he gets a hug from the Secret Service director, and his dad's lifting him up.
00:39:00.000It was back to back to back with all this stuff that made it so special.
00:39:07.000Like Charlie said, it wasn't just that you get a car, you get a thing named after you, but there was the emotional side that was attached to each of these people, and it was incredible.
00:39:18.000Someone says, Charlie, for someone like myself that's dealt with severe brain injury when I was younger, I know how it feels to be attacked like that, but in this case, cancer, but I do forgive them.
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00:40:49.000One of the more memorable moments and funny moments is 125. Over 130,000 people, according to the social security databases, are age over 160 years old.
00:41:08.000We have a healthier country than I thought, Bobby.
00:44:08.000Let's go to Cut 127. By slashing all of the fraud, waste, and theft we can find, we will defeat inflation, bring down mortgage rates, lower car payments, and grocery prices, protect our seniors, and put more money in the pockets of American families.
00:47:13.000I mean, people are just effusively grateful in the emails that we are receiving right now.
00:47:20.000And I do have to wonder that when the Democrats won back at this time equivalent in 2021, do you think their emails were full of like thank yous to God?
00:47:32.000It was probably like, I wonder what that Trump man is doing right now.
00:47:35.000I'm so grateful to the crystals in my...
00:47:38.000The image that will always stick with me is Steven Pinker, the Harvard professor, doing the extremely cringe dance on Twitter with his wife.
00:48:08.000Trump's body language tonight was outstanding.
00:48:14.000145. I just walked out of Trump's joint address to Congress.
00:48:21.000I went there because I was insistent that I wanted to hear directly from him what he had to say.
00:48:26.000But after hearing him spew lie after lie after lie, racism and xenophobia at the center of everything, I walked out.
00:48:34.000And I'm going to insist that we stand up for our constituents, for the American people across this country, and fight back so that we can make sure we're delivering for working people everywhere.
00:50:15.000I could not stand one more second, tolerate one more second.
00:50:19.000This man who pardoned January 6th insurrectionists, who desecrated the very chamber that we are sitting in in this moment, this man who has no respect for Congress, does not respect us as a co-equal branch of government, who is...
00:50:38.000This man, with his hateful rhetoric and his even more harmful policies, I went because I wanted to honor my State of the Union or my Joint Address of Congress guest, Claire from Everett, a probationary federal worker who was damn good at her job at housing and urban development, enforcing fair housing laws.
00:51:02.000The work that she did remains unfinished.
00:51:05.000There are people that will be unhoused because that work is unfinished.
00:51:10.000There's housing that will not get built because that work is unfinished and her life has been completely upended and disrupted.
00:51:17.000And because Claire is also a manual wheelchair user and navigated a lot of ableist spaces to come here today, I wanted to take a seat and take up space and honor her.
00:51:29.000But there is no way that I could stay there.
00:51:32.000For this address, it is insult to injury, the lies, and the propaganda.
00:51:39.000Did she just say something about ableist spaces there?
00:51:42.000I heard some sort of high-frequency noise.
00:52:57.000And it goes to her and she's just like...
00:53:03.000I mean, so who wants to take this, just from a more philosophical and less lighthearted, but...
00:53:10.000Just briefly, what is driving someone like Elizabeth Warren, who obviously had or might still have some presidential ambitions, who never used to be a neocon, to just go all in?
00:53:24.000I'll just say from a political, sociological standpoint, I dwell on this every day.
00:53:30.000And actually, just this weekend, I had somebody that's related to me reach out to me and...
00:53:35.000You know, and some drunken stupor messaged me and say something about Trump and relevant to the anti-war sentiment of what happened in the White House this last week.
00:53:46.000And I said, I don't know what you're talking about, but I'm very proud to be anti-war.
00:53:50.000And I think it's bizarre that every single Democrat who attacked feverishly for basically 15 years the Republican Party for being so pro-war.
00:55:49.000The same people who were in that policy camp of being best buddies with Putin...
00:55:55.000Which was the Dick Cheney-era foreign policy experts here, are the same people who have done exactly what you said, which is villainized Putin and blamed Trump for it, when they were the ones who were closer than anyone ever was.
00:56:23.000The Clinton Foundation got money for doing one, et cetera, et cetera.
00:56:27.000You know, Tyler, I was going to say, though, but this actually is typical of the neocon because the neocons all supported Saddam Hussein in his war against Iran.
00:56:39.000It was the neocons that totally supported the Mujahideen against the Soviet Union and completely funded.
00:56:47.000And founded what later became the Taliban, as well as the early elements of Al Qaeda, the same elements of Al Qaeda that the neocons and neolibs also to this day are supporting in Syria.
00:56:58.000So if you look at it from a different perspective, it also goes to show you that they will use and drop foreign actors at a whim.
00:57:09.000And that's because of this post-1990s mentality that it's the end of history, the United States is the global hegemon.
00:57:18.000We don't need to actually uphold any relationships, which is funny because those are all the things that they blame Trump for because he'll make an offhanded comment or something or JD Vance will make a comment about the British and will say that he's destroyed relations.
00:57:30.000When no, it's actually been their failed leadership over the past 40 years that has put us in this position to begin with.
00:57:38.000And their insanity of, as you say, either you're working with someone one day and then you're vilifying them the next.
00:57:45.000And then we expect them to think that we are rational actors when we seem the ones who are kind of like the drunken sailors, which I can say because I'm a sailor.
00:58:12.000Well, there's institutions, but the institutions that were formed out of the civil rights era.
00:58:16.000So they look at their ultimate heroes as the people that marched, the people that sat on the bus, you know, all of these things, the peaceful protests, and they were going against something that they believe was objectively evil and bad and everything, right?
00:58:52.000These are poorly directed energies for them, but they have to find something to march against because they want to live up to their civil rights predecessors that they find to be the great heroes of American lore and history.
00:59:05.000It's always 1968. Even though there's no boogeyman anymore.
00:59:10.000The racism that they think they're fighting, they've come to embody.
00:59:14.000So my whole theory with them is that they need a boogeyman.
00:59:16.000They've been in power, like every institution.
01:01:44.000I don't want to take the floor away from you, but it's this clip of Brit Hume.
01:01:49.000And the reason I think this is interesting is that Brit Hume has literally come after people, I won't say who, on this show.
01:01:57.000He's kind of a hit-and-miss kind of guy.
01:01:59.000This is him basically singing the praises of Donald J. Trump, and I believe it is 148. This was the most boisterous, the longest, the most partisan speech I've ever heard a president give in this kind of setting, and I go back about maybe 50 years on this.
01:02:18.000I also think it may have been the most effective.
01:02:20.000I mean, if you ever doubted that Donald Trump is the colossus, the political colossus of our time and our nation, this night and this speech should have put that to rest.
01:02:30.000The Democrats seem to be falling into trap after trap after trap as he recognized these people and celebrated the people he pointed to in the gallery and their stories while the Democrats sat glumly on their hands through all of that.
01:03:32.000I just think he's going to end up on the winning side of both of these issues.
01:03:36.000It doesn't mean it's not going to be ugly in the short term, but I think he's going to come out on top, and America's going to come out on top as a result.
01:03:43.000The colossus of our time is a line that really sticks out.
01:03:49.000Okay, let's go to another piece of tape here.
01:04:00.000Let's go to Jake Tapper, Playcut 139. Never heard a president attack the opposition in a speech like this in such a pointed way, even going after to use a rather derisive nickname for Senator Elizabeth Warren.
01:04:18.000Such a derisive, Mr. Fake Tapper, who was part of the cover-up of his senility, and then he comes out and says, Inside the cover-up of Joe Biden's senility.
01:04:31.000Talk about just absolute brazen BS from a political commentator.
01:05:38.000God bless the USA. Isn't it crazy that it just really feels like there's one party that's proud to be American, that loves the flag, loves the nation, defends our military, supports our troops, border patrol, you know, our sovereignty, and there's a whole other part of the country that apparently thinks these things are passive.
01:05:54.000So Chris says, posse comitatus, if they roll border patrol in the DOD, they cannot, under posse comitatus, enforce civil law, but they can repel invasions.
01:06:19.000You get these weird quasi-libertarian, I call them conservatarian arguments, from phrases that used to get said on talk radio in the 2010s or even earlier than that.
01:06:34.000And it's like, guys, that's just not...
01:08:21.000The line of the night was they kept saying we need new legislation to secure the border, but it turns out all we really needed was a new president, without question, in my mind, top-scoring model.
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01:12:23.000But the reason being is because he went out there and brokered this deal, and he gave the Democrats this talking point, saying, we have to do this bipartisan border deal.
01:12:32.000And, by the way, it was never necessary, and I think we would have won by even more if it wasn't for Lankford.
01:12:37.000That actually persuaded some people in the middle, gave them a chance of a talking point, gave them some over-the-top stuff.
01:12:42.000The Democrats just kept saying it over and over again.
01:12:46.000On campus, I would get that question a lot, and I was like, okay, Lankford, I remember you.
01:14:26.000And not only is it one of his greatest accomplishments, and again, Dems on campus, they go stone-cold silent when I say that the border's completely sealed because they can't even process it.
01:15:11.000It was architected by the Democrats in order to change the political makeup of this country, the demographic makeup of this country, the cultural makeup of this country.
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01:16:57.000America passed right over Gen X. We just went from that to that so abruptly, and you couldn't have a greater comparison tool that exists in American politics, maybe in history.
01:17:22.000To the meta-normie narrative out there, because people for a long time on the conservative right, these sort of old cons, would think that it's about beating the Democrats in there, winning the argument, winning the debate or something like that, when it's really about winning over normies, winning over normies to your side.
01:17:39.000And the person who wins over the Normies wins the election.
01:17:42.000President Trump showed how to do that resoundingly in 2023 with him at the helm of this incredible coalition that he put together.
01:17:48.000And what the problem is with that is the Normies are only paying attention at certain times.
01:17:54.000To the debates, that's why they're so important.
01:17:56.000That's why Joe Biden was yanked after his first debate and someone tried to kill President Trump on national television.
01:18:02.000It's also why Kamala Harris couldn't really survive her debate.
01:18:06.000Tim Walz flamed out in debates, whereas J.D. Vance became a national figure in his debate, even though he was a national figure in his own right.
01:18:13.000The State of the Union addresses, and this was a State of the Union address, again, to the Normie audience.
01:18:17.000In that context, this was a State of the Union address.
01:18:23.000It had that sort of Head of state appealed to it, sort of in the dual-hatted role of the presidency being head of state and head of government.
01:18:31.000And so the way the Democrats acted, completely breaching decorum, completely laughing, completely, and by the way, not standing up and applauding for a child with brain cancer.
01:18:43.000I mean, these are politically devastating decisions.
01:18:47.000And make no mistake, they are decisions.
01:19:36.000President Trump's speech was the longest ever first addressed to Congress by like a lot.
01:19:44.000And this reminded me of something Blake said at the beginning, so hat tip Blake, that he's only been in office for about 40 days, and yet the...
01:19:52.000Mountain of accomplishments is so large and so sweeping and so dramatic and the creativity and the upheaval and so much has changed so quickly that he filled an hour and 40 minutes of content and I didn't even realize it was that long.
01:20:15.000It didn't feel like any of that because there is so much to talk about.
01:20:19.000And I think we can definitively say that there has never been a more productive or effective or important and impactful first 40 days of a presidency in all of history.
01:20:33.000Now, you could look at maybe Truman wrapping up World War II or something, but outside of wartime, there is nothing that I think compares in American history, and Blake, maybe you'll disagree with me, but this is so sweeping and radical in so many good ways that it's an hour and 40 minutes, and he deserved every ounce of that time.
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01:22:08.000We've all been enjoying that very much.