Mara Liasson

When you're a president who is facing some really negative feelings, some baked in negative feelings from voters across the country, you know, why not try to get some of that Olympic gold to maybe rub off on you and do it in the first half hour of your speech before people turn it off?

I counted roughly half a dozen substantive asks to Congress, and they're not the kinds of things that you would associate with

major legislative agenda.

And to Sam's point, you know, this has been a president who has gone about in this last year consolidating power in the White House.

The things that I heard him ask for were things like codifying his most favored nation's, you know, drug prices, about lowering drug prices.

I'm not exactly sure how Congress would do that.

He talked about the Stop Insider Trading Act, the Delilah Law, which he coined about

no commercial licenses for immigrants in the country without permanent legal status.

He said he wants a full and immediate restoration of funding for the Department of Homeland Security and to somehow have that help clean up snow, which is not part of Department of Homeland Security's budget.

And as Mara mentioned, the Save America Act, which is intended for all voters to have to show not just ID, but proof of citizenship before being able to vote.

You know, he left them, Democrats, an opportunity and an opening here because he didn't talk about the warts in the economy.

And that left it wide open for Abigail Spanberger to do what she did.

And essentially, talk about standard, reused her message from the campaign to

where she just won as governor in November, to talk about her message on the economy and to appear reasonable and normal, right?

That was sort of the entirety of her campaign.

But I have to say, when it comes to Democrats, the other part of this is that the Democratic response spans from Abigail Spanberger to the Al Greens and Ilhan Omars, and Al Green being Congressman Ilhan Omar's

congresswoman from Minnesota.

And they're far more boisterous when it comes to their response to Trump.

You know, Al Green holding up signs, Ilhan Omar tonight shouting at the president at different times.

And that's maybe not something Democrats are going to have to worry about in 2026 because it's still Trump's world for better or worse for him and the Republican Party.