Althouse: Let's talk about Trump's big speech.

March 4, 2025

Let's talk about Trump's big speech.

I'll be watching live but probably not writing. Please feel free to use the comments section to talk about the speech, which ought to be quite something.

I see that "Democrats are reportedly planning to disrupt Trump's speech tonight with eggs, hand clappers, and other means."

98 comments:

Ice Nine said...: Yes, please, Democrats, make asses of yourselves as usual. Lots of voters will be watching you.; 3/4/25, 6:12 PM
Big Mike said...: The Democrats are trying to kill their own party, aren't they? When I was a child I thought like a child ...; 3/4/25, 6:16 PM
Peachy said...: Whole bunch of cry baby sewer rat democrats are not even going to show up. LOL.; 3/4/25, 6:19 PM
Jim at said...: Give each Democrat a copy of the speech and then have them rip it up all at the same time.; 3/4/25, 6:19 PM
Iman said...: I hope the Democrats throw down with some interpretive dancing or some protest songs. That would be a painful reminder of how ineffectual and pathetic they’ve become.; 3/4/25, 6:24 PM
john mosby said...: Abbreviated version of something I put in last night's cafe:

Trump should ask for a declaration of war against Russia tonight. Basically tell Congress to put up or shut up.

JSM; 3/4/25, 6:33 PM
Mason G said...: I'll save you all some time. Here's the Democrat reaction: "Hitler! Price of eggs! Transphobe! Rapist! Putin stooge! Climate denialist! Dictator! Racist! REEEEEE!!!!!

You're welcome.; 3/4/25, 6:35 PM
rehajm said...: The egg thing is stupid, like when Liz Warren squealed GE doesn’t pay taxes. It shows they have no clue how the world works, how economics works. They’re proving what many of us suspect- they are stupid.; 3/4/25, 6:36 PM
Original Mike said...: Felon.; 3/4/25, 6:38 PM
Jersey Fled said...: “They’re proving what many of us suspect- they are stupid”

Some of them are definitely stupid, but they can’t ALL be that stupid. Can they?; 3/4/25, 6:42 PM
Jamie said...: Give each Democrat a copy of the speech and then have them rip it up all at the same time.

VERY well played.; 3/4/25, 6:42 PM
Kakistocracy said...: When Trump said he would bring prices back down to pre-pandemic levels, he was referring to stock prices.; 3/4/25, 6:47 PM
OldManRick said...: NPR has determined their position on the speech. This is the title of NPR's coverage:

Follow NPR's annotated fact check of President Trump's address to Congress

Sounds real neutral to me /sarcasm; 3/4/25, 6:49 PM
rehajm said...: So is this going to be like props at Rocky Horror? Janet! Brad! Rocky! Ugh! Or maybe Carrot Top in Vegas?; 3/4/25, 6:53 PM
Wince said...: Trump should say, “They are the eggmen. I am the walrus.

Goo-goo g'joob ”; 3/4/25, 6:53 PM
Eva Marie said...: Trump should hand out goody bags:
MAGA hat, pacifier, blankie, copy of the speech with tear marks, one way ticket to Ukraine, bottled water from the Gulf of America.
Better idea: hand each member a kitten at the door. Yeah, I like that.; 3/4/25, 6:54 PM
rehajm said...: I anxiously await the Althouse criticism and disdain of the lack of maturity and decorum…haha who are we kidding…; 3/4/25, 6:55 PM
Narr said...: I'll be watching the Lagina bros, and will catch up with the merely political afterwards.; 3/4/25, 6:56 PM
JAORE said...: "Give each Democrat a copy of the speech and then have them rip it up all at the same time."
This assumes the Democrats are manly enough to rip up more than a single sheet of tissue paper.
Schiff? Not a chance. Mad Maxine? OK, I'll give you that one.; 3/4/25, 6:59 PM
Kakistocracy said...: If farmers can’t sell their products to China or Mexico, they can always sell them to USAID. 🤣; 3/4/25, 7:02 PM
Big Mike said...: To finish my thought at 6:16, ... when I became a Republican I put my childish thoughts away.; 3/4/25, 7:11 PM
reader said...: I’m tired of hearing about egg prices. If they’re expensive blame California and Prop 12. And I’m not even saying that I necessarily disagree with Prop 12 - but it (along with bird flu) raised egg prices. Every time a Democrat pisses and moans about eggs I want to tell them to shut it.

https://www.mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/californias-cage-free-egg-reg-causes-prices-crack-10-dozen; 3/4/25, 7:13 PM
mezzrow said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 3/4/25, 7:25 PM
mezzrow said...: I'll be looking for the papier mache puppets. The big ones, you know? Maybe a Grim Reaper to go with a Hitler and its even more evil twin, Trump himself.

Theatre kids are gonna be theatre kids.; 3/4/25, 7:26 PM
Jaq said...: I agree that we should overlook all of the corruption and political and international skullduggery going on with USAID because some part of the money was spent as intended by the law creating it.

Who cares if USAID was being used to fund, to the tune of hundreds of millions, "ministries" whose only reason for being seemed to be to fly irregular migrants into the US and set them up with homes, benefits, set them loose on our emergency rooms for medical care, etc, etc. These kinds of things must be ignored and allowed to continue indefinitely because USAID still served some part of its original purpose!; 3/4/25, 7:28 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Trump stands for the working class. The stock market crash proves it.; 3/4/25, 7:36 PM
Limited blogger said...: It's Fat Tuesday. Last day to party before Lent.; 3/4/25, 7:40 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Trump tariffs: Commerce’s Lutnick hints at possible tariffs pact with Canada, Mexico ~ CNBC

Trump saw the stock market move today and decided that those fentanyl moves by Canada and Mexico were not too bad after all, so he negotiated with himself.; 3/4/25, 7:40 PM
Mason G said...: "whose only reason for being seemed to be"

You left out "fat salaries for family and friends", you know.; 3/4/25, 7:45 PM
Merny11 said...: Why the H are those Dims dressed in pink after voting AGAINST women yesterday?; 3/4/25, 8:08 PM
Kakistocracy said...: New York Fed President John Williams Sees Tariffs Feeding Inflation ~ Barrons

/Williams said he believes tariffs on consumer goods do feed into import prices, which filters into the prices that consumers pay—and that happens “relatively soon.”

“Based on history what we’ve seen is a pretty high pass through of tariffs,” Williams said./

SEE A VERY HIGH PASS-THROUGH OF TARIFFS TO CONSUMERS

All may be true, but if tariffs make my enemies angry, they are great! Who cares for living standards and such assorted nonsense.

Also, my cult leader says what you said is not true, so it's not true. 🤣; 3/4/25, 8:09 PM
Peachy said...: Farmers were screwed a long time ago by the massive industrial meat complex.; 3/4/25, 8:13 PM
Peachy said...: Factory Farms killed the small farmer; 3/4/25, 8:13 PM
Peachy said...: that there is a farmer's union lobby - LOL.
please.; 3/4/25, 8:14 PM
Peachy said...: Tariff terror on the left. All a show.; 3/4/25, 8:14 PM
Limited blogger said...: Democrats holding up little signs saying inane stuff, that will further turn off average Americans from their message.; 3/4/25, 8:15 PM
Limited blogger said...: Only president in history who appears to be aging in reverse.; 3/4/25, 8:17 PM
Peachy said...: Is that Alito? he looks really old.; 3/4/25, 8:17 PM
Peachy said...: Democrat Party is a sewer.
Just ask Jeffrey Epstein.; 3/4/25, 8:17 PM
Peachy said...: The female Religious Cult Democrat is an especially insane creature.; 3/4/25, 8:19 PM
Limited blogger said...: When Melania smiles she dials lovely up to 11; 3/4/25, 8:20 PM
Limited blogger said...: Action is spicy as dims try to heckle the Pres, they're drowned out by patriot's chants of 'U....S.....A....' and loud applause.; 3/4/25, 8:24 PM
Limited blogger said...: Democrat buffoon being led out by security. Beautiful.; 3/4/25, 8:26 PM
MaxedOutMama said...: I'm glad that at least the Dem women aren't wearing pussy hats. I really do feel as if the wokey movement wants to infantilize women. I reject it with my entire soul.; 3/4/25, 8:27 PM
Temujin said...: Al Green gets his 5 minutes.; 3/4/25, 8:28 PM
Peachy said...: The Democrat Party is a Corrupt evil Religious Cult.
The Democrat Party is a sewer.; 3/4/25, 8:37 PM
Iman said...: Get that greasy Al Green and his pimp stick outta there.; 3/4/25, 8:44 PM
FormerLawClerk said...: "Al Green gets his 5 minutes."

Democrats, of course, being the unrepentant racists that they have been since the Republicans freed the slaves, offered up the black guy as the sacrificial lamb to be thrown to the wolves.; 3/4/25, 8:46 PM
Peachy said...: They have immature signs. They are children.
Democrat party is a sewer.; 3/4/25, 8:47 PM
Peachy said...: Corrupt Democrats cannot even clap for a balanced budget.
What fuckheads. what frauds; 3/4/25, 8:51 PM
Bob Boyd said...: The Dems look so utterly defeated. They're at a complete loss.
Sorry bastards are going to lose a lot of voters tonight.
Trump is at the top of his game. It's a beautiful thing to behold.; 3/4/25, 8:53 PM
Gerda Sprinchorn said...: Jeez. How can anyone stand to watch this?

Children/clowns/pompous asses all of them.

And they are in control of trillions and trillions of our dollars.; 3/4/25, 8:54 PM
Bob Boyd said...: Trump: The days of rule by unelected bureaucrats is over.
Elected Dems: Boooo!
LOL; 3/4/25, 8:56 PM
Limited blogger said...: Interest on a car loan for an American made car to be tax deductible!; 3/4/25, 8:57 PM
Iman said...: Kak bringin’ Teh Flatulence.; 3/4/25, 8:57 PM
Bushman of the Kohlrabi said...: Not watching. Are Democrats “going high” as usual?; 3/4/25, 8:57 PM
Limited blogger said...: Reciprocal = fair; 3/4/25, 9:00 PM
Donald B. said...: Dems appear opposed to common sense. Not a good look.; 3/4/25, 9:01 PM
Prof. M. Drout said...: Why are Democrats salty about Trump adopting Richard Gephardt's reciprocal tariff proposals?; 3/4/25, 9:01 PM
Scott Patton said...: Do the Haka; 3/4/25, 9:02 PM
Limited blogger said...: This thing may go on for hours.; 3/4/25, 9:02 PM
Original Mike said...: 'If they tariff us, we'll tariff them.'

Democrats sit on hands.; 3/4/25, 9:03 PM
Wince said...: Trump is gloating.; 3/4/25, 9:04 PM
Peachy said...: democrats are the party of lies, waste, fraud, gender and race obsessions, bullshit, lies and corruption. and lies.
sis I say lies? and LIES!; 3/4/25, 9:05 PM
Peachy said...: Democrats right now; 3/4/25, 9:09 PM
Peachy said...: It's so hard to say what the Democrats stand for right now. Trump has touted deporting violent criminals, protecting schoolgirls from violence, stopping fraud & waste, keeping American tax dollars in America. Who could reasonably oppose any of that? Yet the Dems keep booing...; 3/4/25, 9:10 PM
Peachy said...: Corrupt liar dems are calling Laken Reily's death a lie.

What assholes.; 3/4/25, 9:11 PM
Peachy said...: The Democrat Party is a Sewer.; 3/4/25, 9:11 PM
Limited blogger said...: Laken Riley's mother and sister are there.

Heartbreaking.; 3/4/25, 9:12 PM
Original Mike said...: Lowest number of illegal border crossings.

Democrats sit on hands.; 3/4/25, 9:14 PM
Limited blogger said...: This is like Trump in concert. He is playing oldies but goodies, his newest stuff, and some covers.

Wonder what the encore will be?; 3/4/25, 9:14 PM
Kakistocracy said...: This is not a presidential speech. It is a disinformation operation.

New Social Security chief refutes claims of deceased people over 100 years old getting checks ~ CBS News

"People who are listed as over 100 years old in the Social Security system are "not necessarily receiving benefits," the new head of the agency said Wednesday, contradicting claims that tens of millions of dead people over that age are receiving checks.

Instead, those individuals "are people in our records with a Social Security number who do not have a date of death associated with their record," said Lee Dudek, the new acting Social Security Administration commissioner who was placed in the role by President Trump, in the Feb. 19 statement.

The clarification comes after Mr. Trump and billionaire adviser Elon Musk claimed on social media and in press briefings that people who are 100, 200 and even 300 years old are improperly and routinely getting benefits.

Because Social Security records are not public, it's not possible to independently verify Musk's claim. However, the Social Security Administration automatically stops payments to people who are older than 115 years old, an agency rule that has been in effect since September 2015."; 3/4/25, 9:16 PM
Bob Boyd said...: "Turns out all we needed was a new President."; 3/4/25, 9:16 PM
Rt41Rebel said...: Pelosi looks like she’s suffering a stroke.; 3/4/25, 9:20 PM
FormerLawClerk said...: "not necessarily receiving benefits"

Well, are they ... or aren't they?

Remember, Kakistocracy quoted CBS News. This is the outfit that typed up fake Texas Air National Guard memos in Microsoft Word to try to rig a Presidential election for John Kerry.; 3/4/25, 9:25 PM
Dr Weevil said...: So if grandma dies at 101 and you bury her in the back yard and don't tell Social Security, you can keep cashing her checks for 14 years, but not forever, Kakistocracy? The Social Security chiefs statement does not in fact refute what you say it refutes.; 3/4/25, 9:26 PM
Limited blogger said...: There is supposed to be a rebuttal after Trump is done.

I pity that person.; 3/4/25, 9:26 PM
Peachy said...: I would be perfectly content if Nancy Pelosi had a stroke.
She is as corrupt as the day is long. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$; 3/4/25, 9:26 PM
Original Mike said...: RFK to combat childhood cancer.

Democrats sit on hands.; 3/4/25, 9:31 PM
Peachy said...: "Under former President Joe Biden, the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation, a government agency, made $127 million in overpayments to a Teamsters pension fund with nearly 3,500 dead members — before reaching a settlement with the DOJ to return the funds."

oooo what?; 3/4/25, 9:32 PM
Limited blogger said...: Trump is actually very gracious. He is rebuffed by the democrats. America notices.; 3/4/25, 9:33 PM
Amadeus 48 said...: "Pelosi looks like she’s suffering a stroke."

All that hard work in her golden years...for nothing. She's seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. She watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.; 3/4/25, 9:34 PM
Bob Boyd said...: The Dems can't even clap for a kid with cancer living 10 times longer than doctors predicted. Incredible. What a disgrace.

I about lost it when that kid hugged the Secret Service director.; 3/4/25, 9:37 PM
Limited blogger said...: We will rename Greenland, Goldland!; 3/4/25, 9:43 PM
Limited blogger said...: The Ukraine conflict really riles Trump up.; 3/4/25, 9:47 PM
Peachy said...: wow- Peace - cannot make Dems stand up.; 3/4/25, 9:49 PM
Iman said...: Trump’s killing this. That kid getting the Secret Service badge - how precious was that! - just destroyed Dems 2026 midterm election hopes.; 3/4/25, 9:50 PM
Peachy said...: The democrat party is a sewer.
Trump insulted Pocahontas by name. LOL.; 3/4/25, 9:50 PM
Iman said...: Debbie Dingle giving a look of disgust as the cheers for the kid rang out. Sheesh! Evil woman, h/t Jeff Lynne; 3/4/25, 9:52 PM
Peachy said...: The democrat CIA Blackrock Ad paid patsy killed Cory.
F the left.; 3/4/25, 9:53 PM
Peachy said...: The Democrat party is a sewer.; 3/4/25, 9:53 PM
Iman said...: The young man getting accepted into the academy… I had just said to my wife in Trumps lead in “and Johnny, what do we have for Jason behind door 2?”. Then Trump makes the announcement and I’ll admit that my wife and I nearly died from laughter.; 3/4/25, 9:58 PM
Peachy said...: Dems cannot even clap for a cancer survivor.
Fuck all of them. What assholes. May they be cursed and rot.; 3/4/25, 10:02 PM
Bob Boyd said...: I guess all the Dems really had to piss.; 3/4/25, 10:02 PM
Peachy said...: "Whatever Trump wants, they’re against. Including peace"; 3/4/25, 10:04 PM
Bob Boyd said...: Trump killed it.; 3/4/25, 10:05 PM
Bob Boyd said...: He's amazing. Truly gifted. One of a kind.; 3/4/25, 10:07 PM
Dave Begley said...: Loved the speech. Loved that he named Biden as the worst President in US history.; 3/4/25, 10:11 PM