Trump's State of the Union Address
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What are the highlights of Trump's State of the Union address?
what's up everybody welcome to a brand new episode of part of the problem i am dave smith rolling solo for this episode and uh of course we're going to be talking about last night's state of the union address um the fifth that Donald Trump has given and obviously the first of his uh his new um his new administration uh let me just real quick before we start I just a couple quick plugs uh there are still limited seats available for uh Buffalo this weekend I'm I'm headed out there tomorrow tomorrow and Friday night I'll be out in Buffalo with Robbie the Fire Bernstein um and then uh And Saturday night, we'll be up in St. Catharines, my first time back in Canada in many, many years. The early show is sold out. I believe there are some tickets available for the late show. It's going to sell out quickly. If you want to come, make sure you go over to ComicDaveSmith.com right away and get them. And then, of course, Boston, just a couple weeks away at Laugh Boston there.
The ticket links are all available at ComicDaveSmith.com. And of course, as I've mentioned a couple times, the tickets are moving fast. I will be back at the Soho Forum in May debating immigration against the Cato Institute's Alex Norwash. Looking forward to that very much. Should be a good old libertarian scrap about where exactly libertarians should fall on immigration with me being more of the restrictionist and Alex being closer to the open borders side of things. Okay, so... Donald Trump's State of the Union last night. Let's get into this. I got a couple clips lined up, and there's a few things that I kind of wanted to talk about it. And also, I will do my best to get to some listener questions in today's episode. If you guys are in the live chat, go ahead and throw some questions in there, and I will do my best to get to some of them. Okay. Let me just say this to start. Generally speaking, I don't like State of the Union addresses. I think that they're boring and lame. They're just never good. They're never entertaining.
They're never honest. It's always spin. And I never like the special interest stories and all of that. I'm just not a fan of the State of the Union in general. So... that's my bias coming into this and certainly um you know look i'm i'm a radical libertarian and so anytime we're talking about a president there's always going to be things that i disagree with them on and there's several things that i think trump said that i don't agree with him on and we could get into a few of those great grading on a curve of that, you know, all that being, you know, considered in the background. Let me, let me just start. I'll start by saying that in terms of effectiveness, like just in terms of the politics, which is what a state of the union is all about anyway. Um,
So not saying like how I personally felt about the speech, like how much I agree with what Donald Trump is saying or don't agree with him. Just talking in terms of like how effective he was politically in this speech. I would give Donald Trump an A+. I think it was his best State of the Union speech out of the five that he's given by far. I think it was his most effective by far. And he... Donald Trump has really, you know, part of the reason, of course, why this is was his most effective state of the union. It's not just that Trump got better. I do think he's gotten a little bit better in some ways, but it's not just that. It's that he is more enabled to be successful by the moment that he's living in.
And this really is, if you kind of zoom out, one of the very interesting kind of big picture meta analysis of the current moment, which is that in a very weird way, Donald Trump, and I think America as a country, We are better off that Trump lost in 2020. We got four years of Joe Biden, and then Donald Trump comes back in in the second term. Now, I'm not trying to downplay any of the very real pain that was caused by those four years of Joe Biden, although if I'm being completely honest, A lot of that was baked into the cake already, like the price inflation that Joe Biden, you know, that we dealt with under Joe Biden. That was coming. Joe Biden certainly made it worse. But a lot of that was the result of 2020.
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