“For all the promises that he would bring down the cost of living, he spent more time talking about Greenland and the Panama Canal and the stupid Gulf of America idea than he did talking about anything he’s doing to bring down the cost.”
Washington, D.C. — Last night, U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) blasted President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress, calling out Trump’s repeated lies and failure to speak on how he will improve the economy for hard-working Americans.
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So if you made the decision tonight not to watch the one hour and 40 minutes State of the Union, I have a few things to say.
First of all, good decision. Good decision. You would have been better off watching an hour and 40 minutes of the home shopping channel than watching that.
There was nothing in this address for you.
So what did he talk about for an hour and 40 minutes?
Well, first of all, he talked about himself. He talked about himself an awful lot. And of course, it was along the lines of, he’s the greatest this and doing the greatest that of all time of any president. He even compared himself to George Washington. I kid you not.
That was interspersed with lies about Social Security, lies about immigrants and lies about everything else, which was interspersed with, he’s the greatest victim in the world. He’s victimized this way, and he was unfairly treated this way.
That was interspersed with occasional references to people in the gallery.
There were occasional instances of unintended humor, such as when he attacked unelected bureaucrats, not realizing, of course, that the biggest unelected bureaucrat was sitting in the gallery, and that was Elon Musk.
But apart from that, nothing in it for you, for all the promises that he would bring down the cost of living, he spent more time talking about Greenland and the Panama Canal and the stupid Gulf of America idea than he did talking about anything he’s doing to bring down the cost.
Because, of course, costs are going way up under his watch. If you thought he was going to make good on promises to protect seniors and health care. He broke that promise tonight too. In fact, they’re going to make drastic cuts to Medicaid. That is clear.
The only promise, the only promise he gave any indication of meeting tonight, was the promise to billionaires to cut their taxes. That is evidently the only thing he’s really committed to doing.
So if you did something else for the last hour 40 minutes, I salute you. Good decision.
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