Trump's Long-winded Speech
Ignores the State of a Faltering Union
The Checks & Balances are Failing: John Thune's Senate is Failing, Mike Johnson's House of Representatives is Failing, the Courts have Faltered, but not yet Failed & Billionaire TV News is Failing the Public
February 26, 2026 / Government Media & Politics / U.S. Politics National News NYC / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz.
I don't have the time to do Trump's State of the Union true justice. But I can't sit by and say nothing, as TV News has already done a good job of saying a lot of nothing, that's worthy of note.
Trump, spent two hours, delivering his same, old, tired, manipulative, bigoted trash, peppered with so many falsehoods, deceits and outright lies, that even PBS had trouble keeping up with them. And the failed billionaire controlled TV News networks didn't even try.
State of the Union 2026
Trump's Address was Riddled with Key Omissions
What Trump Didn't Talk about, is at Least as Important as What he Did Talk About
There wasn't anything new, worth noting in Trump's State of the Union [aka SOTU] speech except the new people and faces he used to try to direct attention away from, that:
1) Donald J. Trump's name reportedly appears hundreds of thousands of times, in the unredacted Epstein pedo-files,
2) little progress made on the economy - unless you believe his Fox News style distortions,
3) little achieved on healthcare as the erection of a website selling prescription drugs, reportedly doesn't make much difference to Americans who buy rx drugs [stock prices of drug companies went up after Donald J. Trump told them how he was 'cracking down' on them],
4) DOGE failed to reduce spending and that prior to Trump becoming president again, there wasn't the 'corruption, waste and abuse' Trump claimed, but by the time Trump leaves office, he will be primarily responsible for about a third to a half of America's $40+ trillion of debt which has been dumped [in multiple acts of cowardice by Republican Presidents and the Republican Party] on America's children and unborns in order to further enrich some of the richest people on the planet,
5) a couple of Hispanic Americans from Texas, working for ICE, put ten bullets [looked like murder] in a white citizen and resident of Minnesota in his own neighborhood as he was helping a woman protester the ICE agents had pushed to the ground, nor about the shooting [looked like murder] of Renee Macklin Goode, also a naturalized white American citizen from Minneapolis, nor numerous other deaths, as well as beatings and pepper spraying of other American citizens and immigrants - both legal and illegal - who have suffered at the hands of Kristi Noem's ICE agency,
6) the bombings by Pete Hegseth's Department of War of fishing boats in the Caribbean and Pacific in what also looked like the murder of innocents and a war crime,
7) the incredible turbulence in the stock market, the volatility of which Trump and members of his Administration appeared to trade on, with Inside information, due to Trump's erratic decisions regarding tariffs on / off / up / down statements,
8) Trump and Republicans included a statute prohibiting states from exercising their rights on limiting the encroachment of AI into everything,
9) little done vis-a-vis China,
10) Trump and Little Marco Rubio have been betraying Ukraine and Europe vis-a-vis the Russians [Bill Gates admitted to some Russian co-mingling and yet Donald J. Trump denies he did anything - not unlike how he denied raping E. Jean Carroll, the Democratic Hoax Epstein pedo-files, money laundering at his casinos, cheating his workers and contractors out of their pay, inciting the January 6th Insurrection, and so forth,
11) Trump has turned back the clock on slowing or preventing the impending crisis soon coming from Climate Change with the last few years being the warmest and driest on human record,
12) the real intent of his Voter ID legislation which is to disenfranchise women [because of marriage name changes] and the poor [no car = no driver's license] nor that voting fraud by illegals is essentially ZERO even according the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation,
13) he lied a blue streak about how 'great' things are in the American economy since he took office,
14) his Administration is [possible to very likely?] becoming the most corrupt in American history, which includes insider trading, personal use of government property by numerous cabinet members, accepting bribes for U.S. taxpayer funded military technology secrets or equipment, real estate deals done with the possibly bribing nations, crypto corruption, suing the IRS for $10 billion,
15) he's been pardoning numerous criminals, not unlike himself and
16) why he seems to be planning to start a war with Iran.
- CLICK here to read the rest of our report about all of the important issues Donald J. Trump's State of the Union Speech 2026 didn't address.
Trump's Long-winded Speech
Ignores the State of a Faltering Union
The Checks & Balances are Failing: John Thune's Senate is Failing, Mike Johnson's House of Representatives is Failing, the Courts have Faltered, but not yet Failed & Billionaire TV News is Failing the Public
February 26, 2026 / Government Media & Politics / U.S. Politics National News NYC / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz. Continued.
TV News Enables & Amplifies the Deceptions
Repeats Trump's Lies, While Failing to Discuss America's Real Problems
TV News has been failing the nation for a long while now. So much so, that there are few seasoned, journalistically educated, experienced, highly intelligent, worldly - aka real newspeople, working at the networks any more. But they are still working, and you can find them on the web.
We're working on a section to help you find them, which we've called Billionaire TV News / the billionaire press. We started it last year and didn't get very far because of other priorities, but this year we expect to bring it alive. So, please be patient, as we are constantly resource challenged.
Anyhow, let me finish my brief review of Donald J. Trump's State of the Union Address and the corporate TV News coverage of it. So, essentially Donald J. Trump spent two hours - a record which all the networks repeated ad infinitum. What they didn't meaningfully convey is that Trump broke a record by speaking nearly two hours long, while saying nothing new.
TV News Highlights the Olympians instead of what's Happening to our Federal Government. About the only things that were new, were his diversions, which are in essence, attempted manipulations, for which the TV News' teleprompter readers almost always fall. The first big distraction was the introduction of the Olympic Hockey team, which Kash Patel had flown to Italy to convince to attend Trump's State of the Union. The purpose of this distraction was to get folks talking about the U.S. Hockey team - which TV News did - instead of the sad state of our union. The corporate media's easy enabling pliability, was not unlike how, through the entire State of the Union Address, the two lapdogs who sat behind Trump, got up to applause every time the Donald threw them a verbal dog biscuit.
Don the Divider - Trump's Show & Tell Distractions
Scapegoating Illegal Immigrants & the Gender Confused
Trump has done an even more miserable job than he had done just five years ago. Trump blamed his failures on CoVid and everyone else but himself. The buck may stop in Donald J. Trump's pocket, but the blame will always get passed on. Just ask his 'closest friend' Jeffrey Epstein.
There were three other 'sets' of distractions. One was devoted to bigoted diatribes about illegal immigrants being criminals. Yes, some are. But studies have shown that immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than the general populace of Americans, so this attack on them isn't accurate. But this scapegoating appeared to excite Trump Republicans in Congress, not unlike how attacking Jews excited Hitler's supporters at his speeches. To bring Trump's bigoted message home [immigrants = criminals], he showcased a victim of an illegal immigrant's crime.
Gender. Then there was a young woman in attendance, who was gender confused. The story Trump told was about how his new policies 'saved' her. I think the whole issue of confused gender identity, isn't well understood by the general populace. I blame / attribute this incredible lack of understanding to TV News, because they never refer to science when discussing it, which is what they should do.
One word explains what I believe to be true about gender confusion - hermaphrodite. Now, if you're an adult, and curious / brave - click this link to the Metropolitan Museum's historic photo taken by Nadar, a French photographer, in 1860, which very graphically shows what I'm talking about [I cropped out the genitalia in the graphic above or at right]. If someone is born like this - with both male and female genitalia - or anything akin to this, I can definitely understand how they might be gender-confused.
Don the Deceiver - To a Cynical TV Con Man
Patriotism & Religion and Honorary Medals & the Bible are Used as Tools to Manipulate the Masses on TV News
Medals Bestowed by a Self-Serving Con Man. And lastly, there were Donald J. Trump's magnificently manipulative, grand gestures to the U.S. military that he's shown an increasing tendency to put in the line of fire. And with the impending - but largely unreported - war with Iran, he has expressed an intention and willingness to use the military rather recklessly, since he appears to have no respect for the sanctity of [anyone but his own] human life.
Thus at the State of the Union, Trump gave the medal of honor to a soldier he sent to Venezeula, who appears to have lost the use of his legs. And he did the same for a centenarian veteran. So, the soldier who Trump sent to Venezuela gets shot up and loses most of the use of his legs, and for that he gets a medal from a president who in July 18, 2015 told another war hero, Senator John McCain, that the only reason he [McCain] was a hero is, " ... because he was captured [adding that he] like[s] people who weren't captured ...".
I can envision Trump saying the same thing to this soldier who was shot up in the line of duty serving under him. This soldier was sent off on a wild goose chase to 'defeat the drug cartels in Venezuela' only to return home and realize that he had risked his life and lost the use of his legs to procure 'oil contracts for billionaires'. The service member may be a hero, but he's serving a president who is an indecent, disgusting disgrace.
Commander-in-Chief Bone Spurs [that's the excuse Trump used to get out of serving in Vietnam], also reportedly called fallen American soldiers "suckers" and "losers". Trump vehemently denies he said this, in a manner not unlike how he has denied numerous other heinous acts attributed to him. While the comments could not be corroborated by any recording, a generally reputable news source, The Atlantic, reported thecomments based on an anonymous source. The comments were allegedly made by Trump on November 10, 2018 in France, related to Trump blowing off attending a Veterans Day visit to a French cemetery, where fallen WWII American D-Day marines were buried.
In the graphic above or at right, Trump plays toy soldier boy for the billionaire TV News cameras.
The dispensation of medals and all of the other little cameo performances were used to dupe and distract the public from contemplating how poorly Trump has governed the nation this past year, as well as to skirt what kind of a human being the real Donald J. Trump really is [see Guardian headline about allegations Trump molested or raped a minor, which he denies]. The Trump who starred in the loosely scripted 'Reality' TV Show 'The Apprentice', arguably didn't depict the 'real' Donald J. Trump, but rather a fictitious TV version of him. The manipulative use of the Olympic Hockey Team and the dispensation of military medals on mass media TV is part and parcel of who Trump really is. As Donald J. Trump will say anything, do anything, and pretend to be anything, that furthers his own selfish interests.
And that's exactly what the entire TV News production of the 2026 State of the Union was. It was the Donald J. Trump Show. By the Donald, for the Donald, and of the Donald. Which is just the opposite, of the principles embodied in the U.S. Constitution and upon which this nation was founded - Of, For and By The People.
Billionaire TV News will likely try to convince you otherwise, because so many of the TV billionaires seem to be in on the greatest of all of Donald Trump's cons.
Time to Start Seeing TV News More Clearly
Take off the Boozy News Goggles. See the Folks Presenting TV News as They are - Actors, Politicians & Political Operatives - who are Replacing a Rapidly Shrinking Smattering of Real Journalists
Did TV News not inform you of some or all of this? If they didn't, please step up and do your duty - to yourself, your family, your friends and your country - by making sure you're getting accurate and fully contextual information, which in these modern times, can only be found on the web, using multiple sources.
The billionaires and their friends control the nation's airwaves. And, as you know, largely present the same set of distracting and watered down news narratives, generally in the same way. Unfortunately, the billionaires who control these corporations are increasingly using their TV and radio outlets as private propaganda machines, to distract from the issues and business of governement, where they all seem to have their hands in the pot. And they manipulate voters, by disparaging and diminishing the candidates who will actually fight for the interests of the American People; while promoting their favored candidates - through distorted news narratives - who will further the billionaire TV News owners' selfish interests.
And the two of them, almost never converge.
