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Chapter 1: What highlights were shared from Trump's State of the Union address?
Well, folks, last night was an incredible night in the United States Capitol. President Trump gave an astonishing, just terrific speech at the joint session of Congress, the quasi state of the union address. We're going to break it all down. I was in the room for it, which was really inexperienced. First, if you're not a Daily Wire Plus member, now would be the time to join the fight.
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Be the first to know what's happening at the Daily Wire. Head on over to dailywire.com right now. Become a member and join the team. So last night was amazing. A couple of days before President Trump's quasi state of the union address, we were invited by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson to join him in the speaker's box at this address to a joint session of Congress.
By we, I mean me and Matt Walsh. And it was truly a terrific experience. In our row was our friend Riley Gaines, who, of course, has taken such a lead on the trans in sports issue. Tom Homan, the border czar, was also just a few seats down. We had the opportunity to sit with Tom Homan a little bit beforehand for the backstage live episode.
You should take a listen to that and hear what Tom has to say about the status of the American southern border. The enthusiasm was tremendous. Before the actual address to the joint session of Congress, there's sort of a big meet and greet inside the speaker's office and in the hallways surrounding.
A lot of cabinet secretaries stopped by, so I got a chance to say hello to many of the cabinet secretaries we've had on the show, many of whom you know and I know. And it's great. I mean, this administration is just filled with terrific people. Everybody from the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, to the treasury secretary, Scott Besson, to the commerce secretary, Howard Blutnick was there.
And really, it's an amazing team. It's an amazing team that President Trump has put together. Being in the chambers of the Congress for the speech was definitely an interesting experience.
And I say interesting because the contrast could not be starker between the enthusiasm on the Republican side of the aisle, the excitement, the feeling that America is on the upsurge on the Republican side of the aisle, and the absolute murderous depression in which Democrats have now sunk themselves. And you could feel it.
It was not even as though there was an animated sort of point of resistance for Democrats. As they filed into the chamber, they looked like a bunch of depressed college students who had just finished debating philosophy and smoking pot in their dorm rooms. That's what it felt like. It was an amazing thing.
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Chapter 2: Why did Democrats struggle during Trump's speech?
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And again, big applause in the chamber, except from the Democrats. It was amazing. President Trump, there are some again, there's so many great moments last night, truly. And it was an amazing pleasure to be in the chamber of real honor because it was historic moment. It really feels like America is on the upswing when President Trump speaks in tones of optimism. There's a reason for that.
I will say it was very funny in the room when when President Trump was talking about the Panama Canal and Greenland, like highly enjoyable. First of all. Secretary Rubio has already gone down and visited Panama. And Panama has already pledged they are going to get rid of Chinese ownership at both ends of the Panama Canal. We've talked about this on the show.
There are several problems with the Panama Canal. The biggest problem is that you have two Chinese-owned companies that basically have stations at the end of each side of the Panama Canal. And should they decide to, for example, just... obstruct the canal in either direction, that is a massive threat to America's naval might on both sides of the North and South American continent.
Like it's a real problem. And so Rubio had already, Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, he'd already negotiated an end to that. He also already negotiated a win for the United States in lowering fees for the transit of American naval military ships through the Panama Canal. President Trump then says in front of Rubio and the entire crowd, we're taking the entire canal.
And you can see that the secretary of state seems a little surprised. He, too, had a surprise under his seat as it turned out.
The Panama Canal was built by Americans for Americans, not for others, but others could use it. But it was built at tremendous cost of American blood and treasure. Thirty eight thousand workers died building the Panama Canal. They died of malaria. They died of snake bites and mosquitoes. Not a nice place to work.
They paid them very highly to go there, knowing there was a 25 percent chance that they would die. The most expensive project also that was ever built in our country's history, if you bring it up to modern day costs. It was given away by the Carter administration for one dollar. But that agreement has been violated very severely. We didn't give it to China.
We gave it to Panama and we're taking it back.
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