President Donald J. Trump’s address to the joint session of Congress Tuesday night was an atrocity exhibition, a cavalcade of victims injured by Joe Biden’s Woke America, from a high school volleyball player beaned in the head by an alleged transgender competitor, to any number of people murdered by savage illegal immigrants, or thugs let out on early release to Trump himself, who has become a messianic figure since dodging an assassin’s bullet last summer.
“I believe my life was saved that day in Butler,” Trump said near the end of his 1 hour 40 minute speech. “I believe I was saved by God to make America great again.”
In an exceptional piece of political stagecraft, Trump’s born-again moment came after introducing Mark Fogel, the American schoolteacher sentenced to 14 years in the gulag for smuggling a small amount of medicinal cannabis into Russia who recently returned to the United States, and his mother, who Trump met in Butler, PA minutes before the assassination attempt.
“With God’s help,” Trump said, “we will forge the freest most advanced most dynamic most dominant civilization on this earth. We will conquer the vast frontiers of science … and plant the American flag on the planet Mars!”
Billionaire welfare queen and Trump’s Best Buddy Elon Musk was in the gallery and took a bow for his ongoing efforts to liberate hundreds of thousands of federal employees from their jobs, all in a crazy scheme to funnel as much taxpayer money into his project based on a Nazi rocket scientist’s 1950s fictional account on colonizing the Red Planet.
It’s true. Elon is in fact named after a character in that book, the president of Mars, as Jim Stewartson has extensively documented at mind-war.com. Beware, the rabbit hole is deep—but rewarding!
Head Doge Bag Elon Musk
“America is back!” Trump announced at the beginning of his speech, which was a series of sideshow diversions more than a state of the union address. There was an attempt at an introduction.
The gist of it was we’re at the dawn of a golden age, thanks to Trump’s swift and unrelenting action accomplishing more in 43 days than most presidents accomplish in four or eight years, and they are just getting started, bigger and better than ever before, the world has never witnessed the Nov. 5 mandate has never been seen before!
That elicited some Democratic clapback from Texas Rep. Al Green, who for a while lead the Democratic minority in a concerted effort to shout Trump down for falsely claiming voters gave him a mandate in the narrowly decided election.
The Republicans tried and failed to drown them out by chanting USA! USA! USA! Unbelievably, wimpy Speaker of the House Mike “Choir Boy” Johnson scolded all the Democrats except Green into silence; Green ejected himself from the chambers, perhaps in disgust with his own party’s lack of backbone.
Texas Rep. Al Green on his way out.
Trump claimed he’s on a mission to restore common sense all across this wonderful land. In the very next breath, he claimed to have solved the border crisis simply by telling immigrants to stay out.
“They heard my words and they chose not to come, much easier that way,” Trump said. Later, he implied the most sweeping border crackdown in American history he promised during the campaign is now unnecessary.
“All we really needed was a new president,” Trump said.
By this point, the House was divided down the middle, with the Democrats sitting in polite silence as the Republicans wildly applauded with Trump’s every proclamation.
“For the Democrats, there is nothing I can say to make them happy or to stand or to applaud,” Trump said. He could cure a disease, create the greatest economy in the world or the lowest crime rate, and they still wouldn’t cheer.
Trump, of course, hasn’t done any of those things, and he never will. His proposed reciprocal tariffs on agricultural goods with the EU, China, Brazil, Mexico and Canada, India, South Korea and so on will directly harm American farmers, who Trump claims to love in a sort of creepy way.
“I love my farmers,” he said, warning that “there may be a little bit of adjustment period” after the tariffs go in effect on April 2. “Our farmers are going to have a field day so to our famers I say have fun I love you too.”
Trump insisted he was “protecting the soul of our country, making America rich again … but there’ll be a little disturbance.”
Here comes the recession.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene pretends not to notice Rep. Doug LaMalfa.
The meat of Trump’s speech was comprised of a large list of MAGA grievances, from remote work to foreign aid to transgender ideology. He bragged about the immediate freeze on hiring government workers and withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord, the World Health Organization and the “Green New Scam.”
Trump claimed he’s already ended Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Diversity and Equity and Inclusion (DEI) polices in the public and private sectors. He has publicly decreed that there are only two genders, male and female, despite scientific evidence to the contrary.
He brought out Payton McNabb, the girl who allegedly got spiked by a transgender competitor in a high school volleyball game. Trump signed an executive order banning transgender female athletes from participating in women’s sports.
Statistically, transgender women competing in K-12 and college sports represent less than 1 percent of the competitors. But emotionally, the fight against transgender women competing against women has resonance with the Christian Nationalist members of Trump’s base.
Payton McNabb is still recovering from a volleyball injury.
“We will never go back!” Trump said about a relatively common volleyball injury.
Trump abruptly tacked left to “Make America Affordable Again” and the scourge of inflation, which has risen on his short watch.
“Joe Biden let the egg prices get out of control!” Trump claimed, not mentioning the bird flu that has jacked up prices.
According to Trump, Biden “cut oil and gas leases by 95 percent … close power plants … we have never seen anything like it!”
Another lie.
Meanwhile, Trump has assembled “the most talented team ever to go get it and it’s called drill baby drill!”
Trump spent a substantial portion of the speech listing $22 billion in alleged fraud and corruption discovered by Musk’s DOGE operation that have already been widely debunked. Most of the deleted programs Trump mentioned were from USAID, the United States Aid for International Development fund.
There was money spent on “LGBTQI-plus!” outreach efforts in Africa, Trump complained. Funds for an Arab language translation of Sesame Street. Payment for illegal alien stays in luxury Manhattan hotels. An $8 million research project to develop transgender mice.
It was all bullshit, but it played well with the Trump cult that has taken over America.
In my view, it’s entirely possible that this speech will be the zenith of the second Trump administration. Great effort was put into making sure the victims of wokeism presented were multicultural, white, black, brown, yellow, etc.
Excuse me, but that is the very essence of wokeism. It’s not going to hold with the white identity movement that forms the base of Trump’s supporters. Elon Musk seriously stepped in shit when he promoted H-1B visa workers to take American tech jobs, now Trump is offering citizenship to any foreigner with $5 million to spend on a Gold Card.
“On April 2 , I’m very superstitious, reciprocal tariffs kick in, whatever they tax us we will tax them,” Trump proclaimed. “We will take in trillions of trillions of dollars. We’ve been ripped off by every country on earth and we will not let that go on any longer!”
Rather than clarify his statements, Trump’s handlers let the atrocity exhibition begin. In a bizarre segue, Trump used a teenage cancer patient to introduce Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his psychotic anti-science quest to Make America Healthy Again.
RFK Jr. copping a buzz.
“1 in 10,000 had autism and now it’s 1 in 36,” Trump said. “There’s nobody better than Bobby to protect our children from toxic ideologies.”
That especially applies to transgender youth, whom Trump hopes to define out of existence in American medicine and law.
“You’re beautiful just the way God made you,” Trump said. “Wokeness is gone, it’s bad, and we’re better for it.”
First they came for the transgender kids.
Next they may be coming for you.
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