This episode discusses President Trump's State of the Union address and the reactions from both Republicans and Democrats. 1. Positive Reception of Trump's Speech: - Senator Cruz and Ben Ferguson praise President Trump's address, calling it triumphant, positive, and forward-looking. - They highlight Trump's emphasis on promises made and kept, and the victories achieved during his presidency. 2. Criticism of Democrats' Behavior: - The hosts criticize the Democrats for their behavior during the address, describing it as disrespectful, defiant, and delusional. - They note that Democrats did not stand or applaud for various positive moments and achievements mentioned in the speech. 3. Emotional and Significant Moments: - The podcast highlights several emotional moments from the address, such as the recognition of a 13-year-old cancer survivor and the admission of a young man to West Point. - The hosts express frustration that Democrats did not stand for these moments. 4. Discussion of Specific Policies and Achievements: - The episode covers various policies and achievements mentioned in Trump's speech, including tax cuts, border security, and support for the military. - The hosts discuss the importance of these policies and criticize Democrats for not supporting them. 5. Reactions to Interruptions and Protests: - The podcast addresses interruptions and protests by Democrats during the speech, including an incident involving Congressman Al Green. - The hosts express disbelief at the behavior and discuss the potential consequences. 6. Conclusion and Reflections: - The hosts reflect on the overall impact of the State of the Union address and its reception by the American people. - They express optimism about the future and the continued success of President Trump's policies. Please Hit Subscribe to this podcast Right Now. Also Please Subscribe to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson and the Ben Ferguson Show Podcast Wherever You get You're PodcastsYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@VerdictwithTedCruzSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: How did President Trump perform at the State of the Union?
I love it when we get to have a joint address to Congress, the State of the Union, and Senator Cruz and I get to do a combined podcast. Welcome. It is Verdict with Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. And for my audience, you're going to hear the same show on the Ben Ferguson podcast. So welcome to you guys as well. Senator, you just left.
I'm curious. For a joint address, do you call your show Ben Ferguson with Ted Cruz? Yes.
That's right. Ben Ferguson with Ted Cruz. That's a great audible. I'm digging that right there.
There you go. I'm just trying to help you out.
I like that. A Ben Ferguson podcast with Ted Cruz. We'll get a sign made, get a logo done. I'm sold. I'm sold. You just left the joint session, Senator, and it was one hell of a night. If there's anything you can say, Democrats pretty much stood for nothing at all.
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Chapter 2: What was the Democratic response to Trump's State of the Union?
Well, look, this is where doing the podcast is fun. It is 1228 in the morning. I just got got home to my D.C. apartment about five minutes ago and just left the State of the Union and the State of the Union. I got to say it was, I think, a spectacular State of the Union address from President Trump. It's the fifth one he's given. I think it was triumphant. I think it was positive.
I think it was forward looking. I think it emphasized exactly. what you and I predicted in Monday's pod that he was going to emphasize. It emphasized promises made, promises kept, the victories we've seen in the first month and a half of the presidency. But I've got to say, all of that was overshadowed in many ways by the utterly disgraceful behavior of the Democrats.
It was something I've never seen before. It was shocking. It was disrespectful. It was defiant. It was delusional. We're going to break it all down. We're going to break down the best parts of the speech, the best things President Trump had to say, and we're going to talk about what it indicates that today's Democrat Party stands for nothing, applauds for nothing, does not cheer on America.
It is something never before seen at a State of the Union address. We're going to break it down and what it means.
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That's 888-488-IFCJ or online at supportifcj.org. Senator, I want to start with what stole the show. You mentioned it a second ago. And you, I know, probably had a mental list in your head in the room. I was making notes on my phone and putting them out on X of all the things that Democratic lawmakers couldn't stand up to honor. It's a long list.
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Chapter 3: Which emotional moments were highlighted during Trump's speech?
Yeah, and we've talked about it in the pod before. So the State of the Union address, look.
if your party's in power it's you know i i joke it's it's like i actually was yeah i was sitting with dave mccormick the new senator from pennsylvania uh who's you know an army veteran and i said all right dave this is going to be like pt in the army uh get ready for jane fonda fonda aerobics you're going to pop up and down and up and down and imagine the the president's wearing leg warmers and you're just going to be doing nothing but every four words standing up and applauding and
That's what we did. I got to say, you know, my thighs are killing me from just doing squats all night.
I want to see the stats, by the way, on your aura ring. I want to know what's the calorie burn during the longest State of the Union ever with Donald Trump speaking. Now that's real intel I need.
So I don't know. I could look at it in a second. And I don't know if they count as steps because we're not moving. We're just standing and sitting and standing and sitting and standing and sitting. But what I like doing during the State of the Union is,
is watching the opposing party and picking out like a couple of senators or House members and typically the more moderate ones and watching them agonize over what to applaud or what to stand for. And in the past, you know, I'd look at like a Joe Manchin and, you know, he would be, you know, America is great. And you'd see a few Democrats applaud for that even stand.
We support the troops and they'd kind of agonize. OK, I guess I could support the troops. But then they'd go back and forth. Tonight, they stood for nothing. So they stood, they did not stand for nothing. Jocelyn Nungary's mother, the 12 year old beautiful girl raped and murdered in Texas by illegal immigrants. They would not stand for Alexis.
They did not stand for Lake and Riley's mother and sister. They did not stand for a 13 year old kid surviving brain cancer. Like, how do you not like like, OK, I'm a crazy partisan who hates Trump, but OK, 13 year old kid surviving brain cancer wants to be a cop like us, like. Literally every single State of the Union address that has been given from the beginning of time.
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Chapter 4: What policies and achievements did Trump emphasize?
every person on the floor would have stood for the 13-year-old kid who survived brain cancer. Zero Democrats stood. I looked at them.
By the way, was it emotional in there? Because I was watching it, and I got choked up watching it. And there was a lot of people that were texting me like, dude, I'm crying right now. Because when you see a little kid and how big his eyes got, you may not have been able to see it from the floor because they zoomed in. But when they said, we're going to make you an agent,
His eyes got so big, he clearly didn't know it was going to happen. His dad didn't know either. And it was just one of those get a lump in your throat, choke up moments.
So I will say it was emotional, but it was true when you were in the chamber, we couldn't see the kid's facial expressions. It was just too far away that you couldn't see it. So I saw his facial expressions for the first time about a half hour ago when I did Hannity. And Sean played the close-up, and so I could see... I mean, I saw the kid, and it was beautiful, and we were cheering.
And when Trump made him an honorary Secret Service agent, that was really cool. But you're right. The close-up of his facial expressions was really powerful. And he's a Texan. D.J. Daniel is a Texan. You had Alexis Nungria was a Texan. But it was amazing. Look, the Democrats did not stand. They didn't stand for cutting taxes. They didn't stand for no taxes on tips. They didn't stand for...
automakers building new manufacturing plants in America. They didn't stand for steel workers. They didn't stand for Border Patrol agents. They didn't stand for a kid going to West Point whose father was a police officer killed in the line of duty. And the president admitted him to West Point in the middle of the speech, which was a pretty amazing moment, too. Like, it was...
But I will say, this is actually, there was one thing the entire night they stood and clapped for. Do you know what it was? What was that? They stood and clapped for giving hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine.
There you go. I knew there was a moment there, but the feet I saw, you could hear the room get louder, but I wasn't sure if they were standing for it. And so that was the moment.
So not everyone stood, but a number of them stood. A number of them pulled out Ukrainian flags. None of them had American flags, but a number of them pulled out Ukrainian flags. And I got to say, look, you could have disagreements about the war on Ukraine. But what the hell does it say about Democrats that they will cheer for Ukraine, but not for America?
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Chapter 5: Why did Democrats not stand for key moments?
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You go back to what you said about those emotional moments. There was also moments in there that were good for the American people. Yes. And just policies. I mean, you can't clap for tax cuts. You can't clap for a secure border, which is something, by the way, they said that they were in favor of. Remember when they were like, well, it's us and we're in favor of it. U.S.
steel workers they couldn't clap for. They couldn't clap for, you know, I go back to West Point for a moment. That was another emotional moment where you've got a young man that's getting into West Point who had a tragedy in his family life and they wouldn't stand for that. And then the capture of terrorists, by the way. That one actually made me angry.
Responsible for murdering 13 servicemen and women in Afghanistan, capturing the terrorists, and they're not happy to capture the terrorists.
Can we play that clip because it's an important one? This is what the president said. It's not hard to clap for this or stand for this. It should be like a universal everyone stand moment.
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Chapter 6: What was the podcast hosts' reaction to interruptions during the speech?
I mean, that that was, by the way, breaking news to nine point nine percent of the people I'm assuming in the room. Certainly to me. I didn't know that to you. OK, so I was wondering if you guys knew that before. It seemed like that people everybody was kind of caught off guard like that was new to everyone. And yet the president says it.
You can hear half the rumor up the other half like, no, no, no. A guy terrorist that kills Americans that we're bringing back to America. Nope. It's under Donald Trump.
And listen, I was looking over at the Democrats and repeatedly turning to the folks around me, just saying, what the hell is wrong with these people? Like it is. How do you not cheer for that? And I think the answer is they're so filled with hate. This is now the party of hate and rage. And they hate Donald Trump. They hate Elon Musk.
And they're just and they hate the voters that elected Donald Trump. And so. There always were points. Listen, in Democrat State of the Union addresses, there have been a number of things that I applauded for. If they say something that I agree with, I happily applaud for if they you know, anytime they talk about supporting the troops, by the way, at a State of the Union.
So the Supreme Court never, never applauds other than they applaud at the beginning. So the Supreme Court applauds traditionally at the president of the United States when he's introduced. And that's typically the only thing they applaud for. The Joint Chiefs, they usually do the same thing. They'll applaud at the introduction of the president of the United States.
But I'll tell you, the Joint Chiefs, they applauded at the kid when he was admitted to West Point. And it was I noticed that the generals applauding and yet not a Democrat would. And I got to say, Ben, there was a lot in this speech to applaud for. As I said, I think this is the best speech President Trump has ever given. And so I was happy and enthusiastically applauding.
Now, if you did not have two hours to listen to the speech tonight, if you didn't actually watch it, We've tried to help you out on this podcast, so we have a montage where we've selected some of the key moments of the speech, and it's a little over three minutes, so it's not very long.
So if you didn't have two hours, here's three minutes that sums up the best moments from President Trump's State of the Union address tonight.
I return to this chamber tonight to report that America's momentum is back, our spirit is back, our pride is back, our confidence is back, and the American dream is surging bigger and better than ever before. And we have ended weaponized government where, as an example, a sitting president is allowed to viciously prosecute his political opponent, like me. How did that work out?
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Chapter 7: How can listeners support the podcast and its sponsors?
More than 100 years older than our country. But we're going to find out where that money's going. And it's not going to be pretty.
I mean, this speech, to go back to what you said at the beginning, number one, it did not feel long. And there's an art when you're speech writing that you want to be done before people are ready for you to be done. This speech did not seem long. I want to know what it felt like when you were in the chamber, number one. But two, like the president came in and just brought the heat.
And I think the American people are going to respond to this.
So, look, I thought it was a terrific speech. As I said, it was optimistic. It was positive. It was focused on results, the results that the president has been producing and Republicans have been producing in just over 40 days. I mean, it really is incredible.
It was also a funny speech, like that whole litany going through the people on Social Security over 120 and over 200 years and over 300 years old. Every line of it was funny. He had a whole litany. He went through Doge and the wasteful spending. That was just hysterical. And by the way, we're cracking up laughing all the Republicans.
No Democrat laughed like even on the funny lines as he goes through. They support every bit of waste possible. And just just across the board now in terms of the length. So this was the longest State of the Union in history. And I'll tell you, so I was sitting with Tommy Tuberville from Alabama. I was sitting with Josh Hawley from Missouri. And I was sitting with Dave McCormick from Pennsylvania.
By the way, how does that work? How do you decide who you sit with? Does it just happen organically? Do you guys text each other before and you're like, hey, let's hang out?
No, no, no. You just kind of – we all – all the senators gather on the Senate floor, and then we walk from the Senate floor over to the House floor across the Capitol, and we walk in together, and the House saves the front seats for the Senate. And so they actually give the best seats to the Senate, which is nice of the House to do.
And so there are a whole bunch of seats, I presume 100 seats, that are kept in the front, and they have little placards on the seats that say, "'Reserved for a Senator.'" But but other than leadership like John Thune and the elected leadership, they have seats that are reserved specifically for them. But for everyone else, it's just senator and you can sit wherever you want.
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