'This isn't going to help': Republican lawmakers panicked over Trump speech
December 18, 2025
Donald Trump's White House address on Wednesday night upset more than a handful of Republican Party lawmakers, who reached out afterwards to MS NOW’s Jonathan Lemire to express their dismay.
Discussing the speech, which “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough pointed out was mostly notable for the president’s constant yelling, Lemire passed judgment by commenting that Trump “lost his battle with the teleprompter yesterday.”
“Not his finest delivery, to be sure,” he began. “And I heard similarly, as Joe did, people were wondering, why is he going so fast? Why is he shouting at us? And I think, in part, it felt to me almost as if he was trying to desperately convince the American people, ‘Hey, things are going great,’ maybe even trying to convince himself of that, because things have not been going well.”
Adding that the administration’s agenda has “completely careened off the rails in the last month or two,” he continued on to observe, “It was very backwards looking, not just during his term, but also indeed blaming President Biden, blaming things that he inherited rather than taking any responsibility.”
“And a few people I heard from last night just sort of said, ‘Well, this isn't going to help with what is the defining problem for this white house right now.’ The sense that the president is out of touch, that he doesn't understand what Americans are going through.”
“And when he was bragging about the greatest economy of all time, you know, people across the country who did tune in last night are going to say, ‘Well, sorry, that's just not what I'm feeling unless you're at the very, very top 1 percent or so, you're just not going to feel that same way,” he predicted.
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