We've ended the journey of so called diversity, equity, and inclusion policies all across the entire federal government, and indeed the private sector and our military and our country will be worked no longer. We believe that whether you are a doctor, an accountant, a lawyer, or an air traffic control you should be hired and promoted based on skill and competence, not race or gender. Very important, based on merit, and the Supreme Court, in a brave and very powerful decision, has allowed us to do so.

We've ended the journey of so called diversity, equity, and inclusion policies all across the entire federal government, and indeed the private sector and our military and our country will be worked no longer. We believe that whether you are a doctor, an accountant, a lawyer, or an air traffic control you should be hired and promoted based on skill and competence, not race or gender. Very important, based on merit, and the Supreme Court, in a brave and very powerful decision, has allowed us to do so.

Thank you, Thank you, Paman.

Thank you, Thank you, Paman.

We have removed the poison of critical race theory from our public schools, and I signed in order making it the official policy of the United States Government that they are are only two genders, male and female. Also signed an executive order to bend men from playing in women's sports. This will be our greatest era. With God's help, over the next four years, we are going to lead this nation even higher, and we are going to forge the freest, most advanced, most dynamic, and most dominant civilization ever to exist on the face of this earth. We are going to create the highest quality of life, build the safest and wealthiest, and the healthiest and most vital communities anywhere in the world. We are going to conquer the vast frontiers of science, and we're going to lead humanity into space and plant the American flag on the planet Mars and even far beyond. And through it all, we are going to rediscover the unstoppable power of the American spirit, and we are going to renew unlimited promise of the American dream. Every single day, we will stand up and we will fight, fight, fight for the country our citizens.

We have removed the poison of critical race theory from our public schools, and I signed in order making it the official policy of the United States Government that they are are only two genders, male and female. Also signed an executive order to bend men from playing in women's sports. This will be our greatest era. With God's help, over the next four years, we are going to lead this nation even higher, and we are going to forge the freest, most advanced, most dynamic, and most dominant civilization ever to exist on the face of this earth. We are going to create the highest quality of life, build the safest and wealthiest, and the healthiest and most vital communities anywhere in the world. We are going to conquer the vast frontiers of science, and we're going to lead humanity into space and plant the American flag on the planet Mars and even far beyond. And through it all, we are going to rediscover the unstoppable power of the American spirit, and we are going to renew unlimited promise of the American dream. Every single day, we will stand up and we will fight, fight, fight for the country our citizens.

Believe in, and for the country our people deserve.

Believe in, and for the country our people deserve.

My fellow Americans, get ready for an incredible future, because the Golden Age of America has only just begun. It will be like nothing that has ever been seen before. Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.

My fellow Americans, get ready for an incredible future, because the Golden Age of America has only just begun. It will be like nothing that has ever been seen before. Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.

On this episode of News World, Klis and I were guests a speaker Mike Johnson at President Donald J. Trump's address to the Joint Session of Congress. Our seats were directly above the House Democrats. It was an amazing place to be. On the one hand, we could see President Trump clearly. We were directly across from the First Lady and her guests, and directly below us were the Democrats. So I want to share with you what it was like to be in the House Chamber on Tuesday night. I want to start by just talking in general about what a night like that is like. Klista and I arrived early. We went to Speaker Johnson's office, where there was a reception, and it was a very efficient way to see a heck of a lot of congressmen and their friends. So he chatted with folks, and I dropped in briefly to discuss with Speaker Johnson the possibility of the Democrats trying to be disruptive. He was totally prepared. He and the Sergeant Arms had been working through it for the previous week, and they knew that it was possible, and they knew that they were going to handle it in a very firm and authoritative way. So then we wandered over to our seats. We've been assigned two seats in Speaker Johnson's section, which is directly across from the first Ladies area, and there's a great view of President Trump, but also put us directly above the Democrats, which was kind of fun to watch and see how they were reacting what they were doing. So you get there early for good reason, because it's a little bit complicated and confusing, and there's not much space and people often go to the wrong place and find they're in the wrong seat and they've got to get up.

On this episode of News World, Klis and I were guests a speaker Mike Johnson at President Donald J. Trump's address to the Joint Session of Congress. Our seats were directly above the House Democrats. It was an amazing place to be. On the one hand, we could see President Trump clearly. We were directly across from the First Lady and her guests, and directly below us were the Democrats. So I want to share with you what it was like to be in the House Chamber on Tuesday night. I want to start by just talking in general about what a night like that is like. Klista and I arrived early. We went to Speaker Johnson's office, where there was a reception, and it was a very efficient way to see a heck of a lot of congressmen and their friends. So he chatted with folks, and I dropped in briefly to discuss with Speaker Johnson the possibility of the Democrats trying to be disruptive. He was totally prepared. He and the Sergeant Arms had been working through it for the previous week, and they knew that it was possible, and they knew that they were going to handle it in a very firm and authoritative way. So then we wandered over to our seats. We've been assigned two seats in Speaker Johnson's section, which is directly across from the first Ladies area, and there's a great view of President Trump, but also put us directly above the Democrats, which was kind of fun to watch and see how they were reacting what they were doing. So you get there early for good reason, because it's a little bit complicated and confusing, and there's not much space and people often go to the wrong place and find they're in the wrong seat and they've got to get up.

And move around.

And move around.

So that went on for a while. Then you gradually have the build up. The Supreme Court arrives, the diplomats arrive, the military leadership is already there, and then the final big build up. Of course, you have the US Senate come in, and it's all very slow, takes a lot of time because they're all politicians and they're all chatting with each other. So it's a very effective way. Having done this for many years, I can tell you the amount of business you can get done before the speech because everybody's there. There are no constituents, there's no staff, there's no news media, and you're just talking one on one with all sorts of folks.

So that went on for a while. Then you gradually have the build up. The Supreme Court arrives, the diplomats arrive, the military leadership is already there, and then the final big build up. Of course, you have the US Senate come in, and it's all very slow, takes a lot of time because they're all politicians and they're all chatting with each other. So it's a very effective way. Having done this for many years, I can tell you the amount of business you can get done before the speech because everybody's there. There are no constituents, there's no staff, there's no news media, and you're just talking one on one with all sorts of folks.

And that was going on now.

And that was going on now.

Interesting side note, going back to the French Revolution, which happened to be very close to the way the US House is organized. They had a dividing line down the middle, and they had a right and a left, which is based actually on the language of the French Revolution. I remember at one point we were on the Republican side, which if you're the president looking out, is ironically on your left and the Democratic side is on your right. And we were there at one point at one of our first meetings with Ronald Reagan, all the Republicans were gathered up, we were all sitting over on the left, exactly where Republicans said today. He came down the middle aisle, went over to the Democrat microphone and we're all staying.

Interesting side note, going back to the French Revolution, which happened to be very close to the way the US House is organized. They had a dividing line down the middle, and they had a right and a left, which is based actually on the language of the French Revolution. I remember at one point we were on the Republican side, which if you're the president looking out, is ironically on your left and the Democratic side is on your right. And we were there at one point at one of our first meetings with Ronald Reagan, all the Republicans were gathered up, we were all sitting over on the left, exactly where Republicans said today. He came down the middle aisle, went over to the Democrat microphone and we're all staying.

What is he doing?

What is he doing?

And he looked up for me and he said, oh, yeah, this is where I used to be, walked over and talked to us from the Republican microphone. Well, all these folks are there, and you'll see some of them. For example, Marcy Captors a great example. She's a Democratic congresswoman who has survived miraculously in a series of close races in Toledo, Ohio. She's always sets herself right on the center aisle so that when the president comes in, she'll be able to say hi to him and be on camera. And there's certain people who do this. They'll go in very early and they'll seize these seats and almost hold them like personal property. So finally comes to the big moment and they send out the committee to escort the president in I had the strange experience when I first got elected in nineteen seventy eight. In January of seventy nine, Jimmy Carter, President Carter was coming to give his State of the Union. And back then they don't do it this way now, But back then the Home State delegation was the Escort Committee, and so the ground rule was that the senior Democrat and the senior Republican came in immediately behind the president. Now I've been in office about thirty days, and because I was the only Republican, I was by definition the senior Republican. So I ended up walking in literally directly behind the presidented States. A good friend of mine, who had supported me, said that he fell off his couch wondering how I had gotten promoted that rapidly, when of course the whole thing was just an accident. They now appoint the leadership from the House and the Senate, both Democrat and Republican, and a number of Democrats did not go to join the escort Committee, which was sort of in their mind, I guess, a slap at President Trump. They announced the President of States, and of course by this stage, you have the Speaker of the House, who is the actual host for the event because it's in the House chamber. You have the Vice President in his role as President of the Senate. So that's why those two sit out behind the President, because the President in fact is their guest, so he's there in a sense subordinated to them in terms of procedure, although he's obviously the President of States. So they announced the president. He comes in, and of course you now have a ten minute trying to get to the front because everybody wants to shake his hand, everybody wants to say something to him, and he's a very good at dealing with people, and he doesn't mind it being slow. He knows the whole country is watching, the cameras are right on him, and it makes him bigger, more important. This whole time, of course, we are all standing giving him a standing ovation for about ten solid minutes. He comes up front, and if you'll notice, he always hands a copy of his speech to the Vice President and a copy of his speech to the speaker. This is a ritual that has been going on for a very long timeeeen ninety six for the State of the Union, which is the one where Bill Clinton says that the era of big government is over and basically he's going to work with the House Republicans. He comes in Al Gore, who at that time was the Vice President and therefore President of the Senate. Al Gore and I are sitting up there. Clinton comes in, walks over, hands me an envelope which is not the speech. I look at it for a second, I look at Gore. We both shrug. I open it and it's a letter that says to Speaker k Newt Gingrish from President William Jefferson Clinton, You're right, I resign. We're both broken up, laughing. It comes to say, oh, I gave you the wrong document. Can I had that back?

And he looked up for me and he said, oh, yeah, this is where I used to be, walked over and talked to us from the Republican microphone. Well, all these folks are there, and you'll see some of them. For example, Marcy Captors a great example. She's a Democratic congresswoman who has survived miraculously in a series of close races in Toledo, Ohio. She's always sets herself right on the center aisle so that when the president comes in, she'll be able to say hi to him and be on camera. And there's certain people who do this. They'll go in very early and they'll seize these seats and almost hold them like personal property. So finally comes to the big moment and they send out the committee to escort the president in I had the strange experience when I first got elected in nineteen seventy eight. In January of seventy nine, Jimmy Carter, President Carter was coming to give his State of the Union. And back then they don't do it this way now, But back then the Home State delegation was the Escort Committee, and so the ground rule was that the senior Democrat and the senior Republican came in immediately behind the president. Now I've been in office about thirty days, and because I was the only Republican, I was by definition the senior Republican. So I ended up walking in literally directly behind the presidented States. A good friend of mine, who had supported me, said that he fell off his couch wondering how I had gotten promoted that rapidly, when of course the whole thing was just an accident. They now appoint the leadership from the House and the Senate, both Democrat and Republican, and a number of Democrats did not go to join the escort Committee, which was sort of in their mind, I guess, a slap at President Trump. They announced the President of States, and of course by this stage, you have the Speaker of the House, who is the actual host for the event because it's in the House chamber. You have the Vice President in his role as President of the Senate. So that's why those two sit out behind the President, because the President in fact is their guest, so he's there in a sense subordinated to them in terms of procedure, although he's obviously the President of States. So they announced the president. He comes in, and of course you now have a ten minute trying to get to the front because everybody wants to shake his hand, everybody wants to say something to him, and he's a very good at dealing with people, and he doesn't mind it being slow. He knows the whole country is watching, the cameras are right on him, and it makes him bigger, more important. This whole time, of course, we are all standing giving him a standing ovation for about ten solid minutes. He comes up front, and if you'll notice, he always hands a copy of his speech to the Vice President and a copy of his speech to the speaker. This is a ritual that has been going on for a very long timeeeen ninety six for the State of the Union, which is the one where Bill Clinton says that the era of big government is over and basically he's going to work with the House Republicans. He comes in Al Gore, who at that time was the Vice President and therefore President of the Senate. Al Gore and I are sitting up there. Clinton comes in, walks over, hands me an envelope which is not the speech. I look at it for a second, I look at Gore. We both shrug. I open it and it's a letter that says to Speaker k Newt Gingrish from President William Jefferson Clinton, You're right, I resign. We're both broken up, laughing. It comes to say, oh, I gave you the wrong document. Can I had that back?

Please?

Please?

Then he gave us the speech, and that's the speech where he basically sold out the left and basically indicated that he was going to work with the House Republicans to reform welfare, balance the budget, and do all the things we did. So the president comes in. He's now giving both the Vice President and the speaker a copy of his speech. He gets another round of applause, and he's ready to start talking. And at that point, exactly what we thought might happen a Democratic Congressman Green from Texas, who had earlier filed an impeachment, who's sort of a maverick and a wild guy, jumps up and starts yelling at the President, and because he had been prepared, Mike Johnson immediately gavel order and read from the Rules of the House about the procedure and the requirement to operate within the decorum of the House.

Then he gave us the speech, and that's the speech where he basically sold out the left and basically indicated that he was going to work with the House Republicans to reform welfare, balance the budget, and do all the things we did. So the president comes in. He's now giving both the Vice President and the speaker a copy of his speech. He gets another round of applause, and he's ready to start talking. And at that point, exactly what we thought might happen a Democratic Congressman Green from Texas, who had earlier filed an impeachment, who's sort of a maverick and a wild guy, jumps up and starts yelling at the President, and because he had been prepared, Mike Johnson immediately gavel order and read from the Rules of the House about the procedure and the requirement to operate within the decorum of the House.

Members are directed to uphold and maintain decorum in the House and to cease any further disruptions that you're warning.

Members are directed to uphold and maintain decorum in the House and to cease any further disruptions that you're warning.

Well, that doesn't affect the congressman. He jumps back up a second time.

Well, that doesn't affect the congressman. He jumps back up a second time.

Members are engaging in wilflin continuing breach of decorum, and the Chair is prepared to direct the Sergeant at Arms to restore order to the joint session.

Members are engaging in wilflin continuing breach of decorum, and the Chair is prepared to direct the Sergeant at Arms to restore order to the joint session.

Then he gets up a third time, and at that point the Sergeant Arms comes over. This had all been blanned all week. They thought this through very carefully, came over, took him out of the.

Then he gets up a third time, and at that point the Sergeant Arms comes over. This had all been blanned all week. They thought this through very carefully, came over, took him out of the.

House, finding that members continue to engage in willful and concerted disruption or proper decorum. The Chair now directs the Sergeant at Arms to restore order, remove this gentleman from the table.

House, finding that members continue to engage in willful and concerted disruption or proper decorum. The Chair now directs the Sergeant at Arms to restore order, remove this gentleman from the table.

Part of What it did is a signal to the other Democrats. If you intact, act out, if you try to do any of this, what you're going to discover is that we're going to throw you out. You're not going to be here very long. And interestingly, the only other real display I saw, sitting directly above them, was fairly late in the speech. Three of the women members took off their jacket and they had on T shirts that said resist, and they stood there for a minute together, the three of them in their resist T shirts, and then they voluntarily left before the sergeant arms could even be called in. But I thought that Johnson, by reacting so decisively and so quickly, had cut off the opposite of what, for example, the president of Colemba University did. That he had cut off any chance for any kind of serious thing, which allowed Trump then.

Part of What it did is a signal to the other Democrats. If you intact, act out, if you try to do any of this, what you're going to discover is that we're going to throw you out. You're not going to be here very long. And interestingly, the only other real display I saw, sitting directly above them, was fairly late in the speech. Three of the women members took off their jacket and they had on T shirts that said resist, and they stood there for a minute together, the three of them in their resist T shirts, and then they voluntarily left before the sergeant arms could even be called in. But I thought that Johnson, by reacting so decisively and so quickly, had cut off the opposite of what, for example, the president of Colemba University did. That he had cut off any chance for any kind of serious thing, which allowed Trump then.

To give his speech.

To give his speech.

While some people at the White House have suggested he would be about an hour long speech, which I never thought was possible, partly because you just have applause time, etc. He actually gave the longest speech to a joint session of Congress in modern history. Bill Clinton had that record. Clinton had spoken for an hour twenty eight minutes and forty nine seconds.

While some people at the White House have suggested he would be about an hour long speech, which I never thought was possible, partly because you just have applause time, etc. He actually gave the longest speech to a joint session of Congress in modern history. Bill Clinton had that record. Clinton had spoken for an hour twenty eight minutes and forty nine seconds.

In two thousand, Trump.

In two thousand, Trump.

Spoke for an hour thirty nine minutes in thirty two seconds, which was almost up to his first term, when he had spoken for an hour twenty two which was slightly shorter than Clinton. There was a long speech, but frankly, it was so well structured that it didn't seem all that long. And I want to talk about that in a minute. The fact is that overall you had this very amazingly clear the lineage. You had the Republicans who stood over and over and over, and the House Democrats who never stood, and the Senate Democrats would stand occasionally or applaud occasionally. But the rigidity among the House Democrats was unbelievable. That now they had some people decide not to come. I mean Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, for example, Senator Patty Murray. But overall most of the Democrats came. In fact, looking back, I wondered if they wouldn't have been better off not coming now because some of them didn't come. There were some vacancies on the Democratic side, and I noticed after a couple of minutes there were a group of Republicans who had decided they would go sit on the Democratic side and fill up the vacancies. So you would occasionally see people standing and applauding on the Democratic side. They were always Republicans, they were never Democrats, but they were over there having fun and started driving the Democrats crazy. What I was struck by. First of all, only talk about Trump's speech itself, and then I want to talk about the Democrats' reaction, because I think they're each worthy of considerable focus. This was a classically Trump's speech, and I think, maybe because of the contrast with the Democrats, the most consequential speech he's given up to now. And I say that because I think that in this speech, with the active help of the Democrats, Trump delineated two remarkably different futures and two remarkably different styles. First of all, if you think back to the speech and you get a copy of it and you read through it, just the sheer number of things he covered, the number of things he was doing, the number of things he could report, was astonishing. Their entire presidencies, that didn't cover the amount that he'd covered in the first thirty some days of his presidency. So that was fascinating, and it reminded you of the breadth of his concerns, the breadth of his willingness to engage, and the way in which on a couple occasions, for example and making America healthy again, he cited and brought up Robert F.

Spoke for an hour thirty nine minutes in thirty two seconds, which was almost up to his first term, when he had spoken for an hour twenty two which was slightly shorter than Clinton. There was a long speech, but frankly, it was so well structured that it didn't seem all that long. And I want to talk about that in a minute. The fact is that overall you had this very amazingly clear the lineage. You had the Republicans who stood over and over and over, and the House Democrats who never stood, and the Senate Democrats would stand occasionally or applaud occasionally. But the rigidity among the House Democrats was unbelievable. That now they had some people decide not to come. I mean Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, for example, Senator Patty Murray. But overall most of the Democrats came. In fact, looking back, I wondered if they wouldn't have been better off not coming now because some of them didn't come. There were some vacancies on the Democratic side, and I noticed after a couple of minutes there were a group of Republicans who had decided they would go sit on the Democratic side and fill up the vacancies. So you would occasionally see people standing and applauding on the Democratic side. They were always Republicans, they were never Democrats, but they were over there having fun and started driving the Democrats crazy. What I was struck by. First of all, only talk about Trump's speech itself, and then I want to talk about the Democrats' reaction, because I think they're each worthy of considerable focus. This was a classically Trump's speech, and I think, maybe because of the contrast with the Democrats, the most consequential speech he's given up to now. And I say that because I think that in this speech, with the active help of the Democrats, Trump delineated two remarkably different futures and two remarkably different styles. First of all, if you think back to the speech and you get a copy of it and you read through it, just the sheer number of things he covered, the number of things he was doing, the number of things he could report, was astonishing. Their entire presidencies, that didn't cover the amount that he'd covered in the first thirty some days of his presidency. So that was fascinating, and it reminded you of the breadth of his concerns, the breadth of his willingness to engage, and the way in which on a couple occasions, for example and making America healthy again, he cited and brought up Robert F.

Kennedy Junior, and he brought up.

Kennedy Junior, and he brought up.

Pete Hegsath, and he brought up farmers and sectuc agriculture.

Pete Hegsath, and he brought up farmers and sectuc agriculture.

Brook Rowlins jumped up to applaud.

Brook Rowlins jumped up to applaud.

He was weaving things in in a way that covered an immense amount of ground. Second, the speech really has sort of three major segments. Segment number one was outlining what he believed what he'd accomplished, and he began early on by looking straight at the Democrats and saying, look, I realized that even if I announced I had cured cancer, you're not going to applaud. So they clearly at the White House had thought through that the Democrats were going to sulk and they're going to sit in their hands, and they decided they would turn it into a positive and make sure that the country understood that this was an example of how bad the partisan split was. But if you go through the things he talked about in that opening section, first of all, the scale of it is amazing, and he talks about an extraordinary range of things. But second, the fact is that many of them. For example, he mentions that we've had a huge surge in volunteering for the army. Well, that it would be a good thing a Democrat or Republican. The fact that young Americans willing to go out and risk their lives and join the military should be a positive thing. Democrats couldn't move. He talked about the fact that he was in favor of lowering taxes for middle class Americans. He went through eliminating the tax on tips, eliminating the tax on interest for buying a car if it's made in America, eliminating the tax on Social Security payments. Now, all of those things should have been you would thought, for the Democrats, pretty easy things to applaud. Not a single motion. He talked about the work that Malania had done focusing on the whole problem of a legal revenge porn and the kind of things that are done on the Internet. And again you'd think for the Democrats, this shouldn't be that hard. Now, he did get into what are clearly big ideological differences, and he went through a litany that was really amazing. Where he talked about protecting women's sports, he talked about a whole range of things that you would think that people could have been supportive of, and yet the fact was that he was just simply not able to get the Democrats to applaud a single thing. And the gap, frankly, was pretty remarkable when you look at it. We're talking here, I'm just wanting to give you a couple examples because it was so striking to me, and we've done a lot of this research at America's New Majority Project, which you can say if you go to America's New Majority Project dot com. So let me give you just a couple examples. The President talks about the fact that in his judgment, there are two genders, male and female. Well, the American people overwhelmingly agree about seventy five percent say yes, that's exactly right, but not the zombie Democrats question about should boys be blocked from playing women's sports? And he had a great example of a young woman who had been very severely injured playing volleyball where there was a male who was on the women's team and who hit the ball so hard that it really caused profound damage. When you talk about stopping men from playing women's sports, the American people agree by a large margin. In fact, one poll found sixty six percent American people think that men should not be playing women's sports, but not the zombie Democrats. When you ask the question, should English be the official language United States? This is overwhelming eighty one percent of Americans think so, but not the zombie Democrats. And when you ask the question, which I think maybe the most profound contribution that Trump makes to rebuilding American culture, should merit and performance be the basis for hiring and promotion?

He was weaving things in in a way that covered an immense amount of ground. Second, the speech really has sort of three major segments. Segment number one was outlining what he believed what he'd accomplished, and he began early on by looking straight at the Democrats and saying, look, I realized that even if I announced I had cured cancer, you're not going to applaud. So they clearly at the White House had thought through that the Democrats were going to sulk and they're going to sit in their hands, and they decided they would turn it into a positive and make sure that the country understood that this was an example of how bad the partisan split was. But if you go through the things he talked about in that opening section, first of all, the scale of it is amazing, and he talks about an extraordinary range of things. But second, the fact is that many of them. For example, he mentions that we've had a huge surge in volunteering for the army. Well, that it would be a good thing a Democrat or Republican. The fact that young Americans willing to go out and risk their lives and join the military should be a positive thing. Democrats couldn't move. He talked about the fact that he was in favor of lowering taxes for middle class Americans. He went through eliminating the tax on tips, eliminating the tax on interest for buying a car if it's made in America, eliminating the tax on Social Security payments. Now, all of those things should have been you would thought, for the Democrats, pretty easy things to applaud. Not a single motion. He talked about the work that Malania had done focusing on the whole problem of a legal revenge porn and the kind of things that are done on the Internet. And again you'd think for the Democrats, this shouldn't be that hard. Now, he did get into what are clearly big ideological differences, and he went through a litany that was really amazing. Where he talked about protecting women's sports, he talked about a whole range of things that you would think that people could have been supportive of, and yet the fact was that he was just simply not able to get the Democrats to applaud a single thing. And the gap, frankly, was pretty remarkable when you look at it. We're talking here, I'm just wanting to give you a couple examples because it was so striking to me, and we've done a lot of this research at America's New Majority Project, which you can say if you go to America's New Majority Project dot com. So let me give you just a couple examples. The President talks about the fact that in his judgment, there are two genders, male and female. Well, the American people overwhelmingly agree about seventy five percent say yes, that's exactly right, but not the zombie Democrats question about should boys be blocked from playing women's sports? And he had a great example of a young woman who had been very severely injured playing volleyball where there was a male who was on the women's team and who hit the ball so hard that it really caused profound damage. When you talk about stopping men from playing women's sports, the American people agree by a large margin. In fact, one poll found sixty six percent American people think that men should not be playing women's sports, but not the zombie Democrats. When you ask the question, should English be the official language United States? This is overwhelming eighty one percent of Americans think so, but not the zombie Democrats. And when you ask the question, which I think maybe the most profound contribution that Trump makes to rebuilding American culture, should merit and performance be the basis for hiring and promotion?

Now, this is not a close call. Overwhelmingly eighty one.

Now, this is not a close call. Overwhelmingly eighty one.

Percent of the American people think so, but not the zombie Democrats. And I go through this list because I was sitting there watching and I was thinking, surely at some point they're going to break and at some point they're going to get involved in applauding something.

Percent of the American people think so, but not the zombie Democrats. And I go through this list because I was sitting there watching and I was thinking, surely at some point they're going to break and at some point they're going to get involved in applauding something.

But they didn't.

But they didn't.

He also, frankly, had a series of kind of current events that you don't normally think of. In a speech to a joint session, he reported that we'd captured an ISIS terrorist that masterminded the Abby Gata kack. Again, why wouldn't the Democrats applaud the fact that we captured a terrorist. He reported that he'd actually gotten a letter from President Zelenski of the Ukraine. He read the letter as part of this The letter had come in yesterday. Again, you'd think he's now doing what supposedly the Democrats wanted him to do. They're getting back together to try to find a way to end the war. And it was a very funny exchange where Trump was saying that we don't want the war to go on, and apparently the senator from Massachusetts was nodding aggressively that she didn't agree with him, and he turnedy called her Pocahontas, which was probably not total decorum, but even she laughed about it, and it was not seen as overly hostile. But what you have here was he's talking about things that are literally happening that day.

He also, frankly, had a series of kind of current events that you don't normally think of. In a speech to a joint session, he reported that we'd captured an ISIS terrorist that masterminded the Abby Gata kack. Again, why wouldn't the Democrats applaud the fact that we captured a terrorist. He reported that he'd actually gotten a letter from President Zelenski of the Ukraine. He read the letter as part of this The letter had come in yesterday. Again, you'd think he's now doing what supposedly the Democrats wanted him to do. They're getting back together to try to find a way to end the war. And it was a very funny exchange where Trump was saying that we don't want the war to go on, and apparently the senator from Massachusetts was nodding aggressively that she didn't agree with him, and he turnedy called her Pocahontas, which was probably not total decorum, but even she laughed about it, and it was not seen as overly hostile. But what you have here was he's talking about things that are literally happening that day.

Now.

Now.

I don't remember that experience ever in a joint session. In addition, talking about really dramatic change when you realize that literally a month and a half ago our borders were basically wide open. We now have in the South the lowest rate of illegal immigration crossing the border since the nineteen sixties. I mean, the numbers have collapsed so decisively. I would never have predicted that it would happen this quickly, but in fact, the word has gone out, don't try to come to America. They're not going to let you in, and you're seeing the entire pipeline dry up of illegal immigration. He also took some very tough, very bold positions and got very strong support from everybody except the zombie Democrats. When he said that we should punish cop killers with the death penalty, there was overwhelming support in the room outside of the Democrats.

I don't remember that experience ever in a joint session. In addition, talking about really dramatic change when you realize that literally a month and a half ago our borders were basically wide open. We now have in the South the lowest rate of illegal immigration crossing the border since the nineteen sixties. I mean, the numbers have collapsed so decisively. I would never have predicted that it would happen this quickly, but in fact, the word has gone out, don't try to come to America. They're not going to let you in, and you're seeing the entire pipeline dry up of illegal immigration. He also took some very tough, very bold positions and got very strong support from everybody except the zombie Democrats. When he said that we should punish cop killers with the death penalty, there was overwhelming support in the room outside of the Democrats.

When he talked about.

When he talked about.

The notion that he's declared war on the brutal trend Uragua gang, which is the Venezuelan gang, but also on gangs from places like Ol Salvador imester and the cartels in Mexico. These are big changes moving in the right direction. He gave I think the longest, clearest explanation of his tariff policy. We've really not had a serious debate about tariffs since early nineteen thirties, and yet for most of American history, tariffs were very important, both in getting businesses inside the US and in raising money. In Jefferson's second inaugural in eighteen oh five, he points out that there are no internal revenue agents because we make so much money out of the tariffs, and as late as McKinley, the whole strategy is raise the cost to coming into the US, encourage people to invest in building in the US. You'll have very very effective industries with very high salaries, and that mostly worked. It's shocking nowadays because from the mid nineteen thirties on, our elites taught us that you're supposed to be for free trade, which by the way, doesn't exist anywhere. As Trump pointed out, I mean if some countries to charge four hundred percent tariffs, if the Americans are shipping things in, well, you've already seen even in the first weeks the impact of his tariff policy, because you had a major auto firm announced that instead of building their next factory in Mexico, they're now going to build it in Indiana, and that's specifically because of the tariff prophecy. So you really have a number of things going on. He made a very important step in saying that they're going to have an office in the White House dedicated to rebuilding American ship building. This is an enormous crisis. Both the Coast Guard and the Navy have been disasters at building ships. We are way behind not just China but Korea, and we could not build ships today in an effective way in order to be able to defend the country. It's a really big problem, and I'm delighted to see that they're taking it very seriously. They're working to try to make sure that we get back into being capable of producing first rate ships and producing large numbers of them, which is what we're going to need. All of that was good, solid stuff, and of course the Democrats sat in their hands, but what was to me more intriguing was watching the President building on something that Ronald Reagan had really perfected, identifying specific people who were guests of he and Milennia sitting in the audience, and the Democrats couldn't respond. So he identifies someone that he had helped free from Russia after Biden had failed for three and a half years, and he has this ninety five year old mother there. Now, how can you not applaud a ninety five year old mother?

The notion that he's declared war on the brutal trend Uragua gang, which is the Venezuelan gang, but also on gangs from places like Ol Salvador imester and the cartels in Mexico. These are big changes moving in the right direction. He gave I think the longest, clearest explanation of his tariff policy. We've really not had a serious debate about tariffs since early nineteen thirties, and yet for most of American history, tariffs were very important, both in getting businesses inside the US and in raising money. In Jefferson's second inaugural in eighteen oh five, he points out that there are no internal revenue agents because we make so much money out of the tariffs, and as late as McKinley, the whole strategy is raise the cost to coming into the US, encourage people to invest in building in the US. You'll have very very effective industries with very high salaries, and that mostly worked. It's shocking nowadays because from the mid nineteen thirties on, our elites taught us that you're supposed to be for free trade, which by the way, doesn't exist anywhere. As Trump pointed out, I mean if some countries to charge four hundred percent tariffs, if the Americans are shipping things in, well, you've already seen even in the first weeks the impact of his tariff policy, because you had a major auto firm announced that instead of building their next factory in Mexico, they're now going to build it in Indiana, and that's specifically because of the tariff prophecy. So you really have a number of things going on. He made a very important step in saying that they're going to have an office in the White House dedicated to rebuilding American ship building. This is an enormous crisis. Both the Coast Guard and the Navy have been disasters at building ships. We are way behind not just China but Korea, and we could not build ships today in an effective way in order to be able to defend the country. It's a really big problem, and I'm delighted to see that they're taking it very seriously. They're working to try to make sure that we get back into being capable of producing first rate ships and producing large numbers of them, which is what we're going to need. All of that was good, solid stuff, and of course the Democrats sat in their hands, but what was to me more intriguing was watching the President building on something that Ronald Reagan had really perfected, identifying specific people who were guests of he and Milennia sitting in the audience, and the Democrats couldn't respond. So he identifies someone that he had helped free from Russia after Biden had failed for three and a half years, and he has this ninety five year old mother there. Now, how can you not applaud a ninety five year old mother?

But they didn't.

But they didn't.

He had a young man who wants to go and serve his country by going to West Point, and it had been a very striking moment announced that the young man had now been accepted. The commander chief has a pretty big impact if he wants somebody to go to work point. The young guy, of course, was thrilled. There was a great moment, a moment of patriotism, but the Democrats just couldn't respond. There were specific examples of mothers of people who'd been killed by illegal immigrants. There was the case of the firefighter who had been killed, who'd thrown himself to cover his daughters and his wife during the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, and had been killed. Each of these and the daughters and the wife were there. President Trump recognized them. You'd think that'd be pretty emotional, and the Democrats sat on their hands. But the one that really struck me was there was a young boy thirteen years a cancer survivor, very courageous, whose thing which has really given him energy and hope and the desire to beat cancer was he really wants to become a policeman, and apparently has had over five hundred departments that have made him an honorary policeman. Well, there, right in front of everybody, President Trump announced, and the head of the Secret Service was right there that he was now going to be a special agent in the Secret Service at thirteen years of age.

He had a young man who wants to go and serve his country by going to West Point, and it had been a very striking moment announced that the young man had now been accepted. The commander chief has a pretty big impact if he wants somebody to go to work point. The young guy, of course, was thrilled. There was a great moment, a moment of patriotism, but the Democrats just couldn't respond. There were specific examples of mothers of people who'd been killed by illegal immigrants. There was the case of the firefighter who had been killed, who'd thrown himself to cover his daughters and his wife during the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, and had been killed. Each of these and the daughters and the wife were there. President Trump recognized them. You'd think that'd be pretty emotional, and the Democrats sat on their hands. But the one that really struck me was there was a young boy thirteen years a cancer survivor, very courageous, whose thing which has really given him energy and hope and the desire to beat cancer was he really wants to become a policeman, and apparently has had over five hundred departments that have made him an honorary policeman. Well, there, right in front of everybody, President Trump announced, and the head of the Secret Service was right there that he was now going to be a special agent in the Secret Service at thirteen years of age.

If you look at the picture.

If you look at the picture.

Of that boy's face, you look at his eyes, and you look at how excited he is. How could you not stand up in the PLoud When I saw it later on television night, you really see his eyes light up and he's so excited. If you can't applaud a ninety five year old mother and a thirteen year old cancer survivor, there's something really profoundly wrong.

Of that boy's face, you look at his eyes, and you look at how excited he is. How could you not stand up in the PLoud When I saw it later on television night, you really see his eyes light up and he's so excited. If you can't applaud a ninety five year old mother and a thirteen year old cancer survivor, there's something really profoundly wrong.

And I think that was a part of it.

And I think that was a part of it.

So you have the current events, this is what we're doing now section, you have the human this is how we're trying to recognize and encourage people. And then you have a closing, which is relatively short but I think very important, where Trump goes back to talking about a golden age for America, that we have not really seen anything yet. There are best years ahead of us that we can have through technological advance. Now we can have a better economy, better national security, higher incomes, a.

So you have the current events, this is what we're doing now section, you have the human this is how we're trying to recognize and encourage people. And then you have a closing, which is relatively short but I think very important, where Trump goes back to talking about a golden age for America, that we have not really seen anything yet. There are best years ahead of us that we can have through technological advance. Now we can have a better economy, better national security, higher incomes, a.

Better quality of life.

Better quality of life.

And he's really painting a remarkably positive picture, which I happen to believe it of the kind of future that is possible with the right policies because of everything that's happening. Even then, the Democrats couldn't be positive. So you had this very interesting dichotomy, and this is why I think this is such a consequential speech. On the one hand, you have President Trump outlining what he is doing, outlining how much he cares about people, and outlining a dramatically better, more exciting, more positive future. On the other hand, you have a Democratic party which can't function. They don't know how to oppose him, they don't know how to work with him, and in a sense, they really are zombies. I mean they're sitting there afraid to break ever to I'd see one, I'm applaud and then stop and realize that they weren't supposed to be doing that, which is crazy. The United States does not want to see a party which is totally negative, totally out of touch. This is what happened with the Republicans under President Franklin Donna Roosevelt. As Roosevelt rolled out the New Deal, the Republicans became negative and bitter and hostile, and they didn't really recover from that for a generation. And I think that there's a real danger here that the Democrats could suddenly walk themselves into sort of a back alley where they can't get out. People are not going to want to vote for somebody who is always negative, always hostile, who cannot share your values, and who has to consistently be with the most radical, the largest number of strange people who don't fit the rest of the country. And yet that's what you're seeing begin to develop. It was a very very interesting speech in a fascinating evening, and I think the early appolling results seventy six percent of the people who watched the speech were totally supportive. The people who watched the speech tended to be pro Trump, So in that sense, it is a little bit of a skewed number, but that's always true whoever is president, whether it's Biden and the Democrats or Trump and the Republicans, or Obama and the Democrats, you tend to get your own partisans to watch more than independence and certainly the opposition party. Nonetheless, I don't remember ever seeing a seventy six percent approval number for a speech like this, so I think from President Trump's standpoint, the speech was extraordinarily well received. It laid down a marker of what he wants to accomplish. It outlined a set of values he's willing to fight for and projected a dramatically better future that should affect every American and offer them a better future. So I thought it was a remarkable evening Cluston. I just had a wonderful time Speaker Johnson's team was very good to us. Having once been Speaker and Klister had spent eighteen years working on the Hill, it was kind of nice to be back in places we've been a lot, and to see what was going on. I really if you have not looked at the speech, I encourage you either to look at a rerun of it on video or to read the transcript, although you'll get a much stronger feeling if you watch it on video and realize how strange the dichotomy was of the Republicans consistently being positive and the Democrats sitting on their hands. One final note, and I don't know how much this was organized or if it was just spontaneous, but early on, when the Democrats would start to make noises, the Republicans would just break into.

And he's really painting a remarkably positive picture, which I happen to believe it of the kind of future that is possible with the right policies because of everything that's happening. Even then, the Democrats couldn't be positive. So you had this very interesting dichotomy, and this is why I think this is such a consequential speech. On the one hand, you have President Trump outlining what he is doing, outlining how much he cares about people, and outlining a dramatically better, more exciting, more positive future. On the other hand, you have a Democratic party which can't function. They don't know how to oppose him, they don't know how to work with him, and in a sense, they really are zombies. I mean they're sitting there afraid to break ever to I'd see one, I'm applaud and then stop and realize that they weren't supposed to be doing that, which is crazy. The United States does not want to see a party which is totally negative, totally out of touch. This is what happened with the Republicans under President Franklin Donna Roosevelt. As Roosevelt rolled out the New Deal, the Republicans became negative and bitter and hostile, and they didn't really recover from that for a generation. And I think that there's a real danger here that the Democrats could suddenly walk themselves into sort of a back alley where they can't get out. People are not going to want to vote for somebody who is always negative, always hostile, who cannot share your values, and who has to consistently be with the most radical, the largest number of strange people who don't fit the rest of the country. And yet that's what you're seeing begin to develop. It was a very very interesting speech in a fascinating evening, and I think the early appolling results seventy six percent of the people who watched the speech were totally supportive. The people who watched the speech tended to be pro Trump, So in that sense, it is a little bit of a skewed number, but that's always true whoever is president, whether it's Biden and the Democrats or Trump and the Republicans, or Obama and the Democrats, you tend to get your own partisans to watch more than independence and certainly the opposition party. Nonetheless, I don't remember ever seeing a seventy six percent approval number for a speech like this, so I think from President Trump's standpoint, the speech was extraordinarily well received. It laid down a marker of what he wants to accomplish. It outlined a set of values he's willing to fight for and projected a dramatically better future that should affect every American and offer them a better future. So I thought it was a remarkable evening Cluston. I just had a wonderful time Speaker Johnson's team was very good to us. Having once been Speaker and Klister had spent eighteen years working on the Hill, it was kind of nice to be back in places we've been a lot, and to see what was going on. I really if you have not looked at the speech, I encourage you either to look at a rerun of it on video or to read the transcript, although you'll get a much stronger feeling if you watch it on video and realize how strange the dichotomy was of the Republicans consistently being positive and the Democrats sitting on their hands. One final note, and I don't know how much this was organized or if it was just spontaneous, but early on, when the Democrats would start to make noises, the Republicans would just break into.

USA, USA, USA.

USA, USA, USA.

I know from research we did is always nineteen eighty three that the most powerful political words in America are American nationalism. People are proud to be American, They're proud of the country. And USA is a pretty darn powerful statement. And the fact that the Democrats had no countervailing chant, but at the same time really couldn't break into saying USA USA was fascinating. There was also a moment very late in the speech where the Republicans suddenly broke into fight fight fight, picking up exactly on what Trump had said after he was shot at Butler. Those were moments where if you were in the room, they were galvanizing, and you know, you'll never quite forget them. And I think that it was a remarkable speech. I think it moved the Trump agenda significantly, and I think has strengthened dramatically both his base of support in the country at large and his base of support in the Republican Party. And it left the Democrats, I think, in a pretty deep hole. And if they end up truly becoming zombie Democrats, I think they could, like the Republicans in the nineteen thirties, find themselves really non competitive for a very long time. Neutch World is produced by English three sixty and iHeartMedia. Executive producer is Guardnsey Sloan. Our researcher is Rachel Peterson. The artwork for the show was created by Steve Penley. Special thanks to the team at Ginglish three sixty. If you've been enjoying Newtsworld, I hope you'll go to Apple Podcast and both rate us with five stars and give us a review so others can learn what it's all about. Right now, listeners of newts World consign up for my three free weekly columns at ginglishtree sixty dot com slash newsletter.

I know from research we did is always nineteen eighty three that the most powerful political words in America are American nationalism. People are proud to be American, They're proud of the country. And USA is a pretty darn powerful statement. And the fact that the Democrats had no countervailing chant, but at the same time really couldn't break into saying USA USA was fascinating. There was also a moment very late in the speech where the Republicans suddenly broke into fight fight fight, picking up exactly on what Trump had said after he was shot at Butler. Those were moments where if you were in the room, they were galvanizing, and you know, you'll never quite forget them. And I think that it was a remarkable speech. I think it moved the Trump agenda significantly, and I think has strengthened dramatically both his base of support in the country at large and his base of support in the Republican Party. And it left the Democrats, I think, in a pretty deep hole. And if they end up truly becoming zombie Democrats, I think they could, like the Republicans in the nineteen thirties, find themselves really non competitive for a very long time. Neutch World is produced by English three sixty and iHeartMedia. Executive producer is Guardnsey Sloan. Our researcher is Rachel Peterson. The artwork for the show was created by Steve Penley. Special thanks to the team at Ginglish three sixty. If you've been enjoying Newtsworld, I hope you'll go to Apple Podcast and both rate us with five stars and give us a review so others can learn what it's all about. Right now, listeners of newts World consign up for my three free weekly columns at ginglishtree sixty dot com slash newsletter.

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