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‘People hate you’: James Carville eviscerates Trump in 'brutal' response to major address

Political strategist James Carville delivered a brutal message to President Donald Trump after his State of the Union address on Tuesday, a deeply personal message that saw the veteran consultant accuse even Republicans of despising him.

“I have a personal message for Donald John Trump, and you sit still you son of a b---- when I’m telling you this because I’m gonna tell you right where you are, you fat, sorry sack of s---: people hate you,” Carville said in a video message shared on Tuesday by ex-NBC executive Mike Sington, who called Carville’s message “brutal.”

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Trump faulted for giving GOP nothing to run on: 'Still looking for that agenda'

President Donald Trump did not provide Republicans with a message to rally around, according to an analyst on "CNN This Morning."

The 79-year-old president spoke Tuesday for a record one hour and 47 minutes, where he boasted of an economic "turnaround for the ages" and claimed to be making deals to benefit all Americans, but CNN's Edward-Isaac Dovere said he did not lay out much of an agenda for GOP candidates.

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Trump's 'pretty boring' State of the Union was a flop: MS NOW's Lemire

Donald Trump's record-long State of the Union address got about as low of marks as possible from MS NOW’s Jonathan Lemire who claimed he couldn’t see it changing one person’s mind about the president’s disastrous second term -- according to recent polls.

Worse still, he added, the entire speech was a boring drag.

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'This is false': One of Trump's biggest claims at address fact-checked by his own website

While President Donald Trump proudly boasted Tuesday during his State of the Union address that he had helped secure $18 trillion in investments into the United States during his first year in office, the claim was immediately labeled as false Wednesday by NBC News, which pointed to the Trump administration’s own website as proof.

“I secured commitments for more than $18 trillion, pouring in from all over the globe,” Trump touted Tuesday, with the official White House stream of the event queuing up a graphic displaying the $18 trillion figure in real time.

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'Sloppy' Trump lawyers called out over claim ICE detainee was a criminal at just age 4

A federal judge called out the Trump administration in a new court order on Tuesday over a claim it made about someone detained in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.

Harmanjot Singh was arrested by ICE officers in December during a routine immigration check-up. He has since filed a motion for a Temporary Restraining Order preventing his deportation from the U.S., which the federal court in the Western District of Louisiana denied on Tuesday.

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Rachel Maddow debunks lie after lie from Trump's 'frenetic' State of the Union

MS NOW's Rachel Maddow did her best to wrap her head around President Donald Trump's record-shattering State of the Union Address on Tuesday night — and try to counter all of the lies he told just on the economy alone.

"You have just experienced the longest State of the Union ever in State of the Union history," said Maddow. "It wasn't just the feeling you had, it was the math. Over an hour and 47 minutes, the president blowing out of the water. The previous record for the longest State of the Union speech ever, a record he himself set last year in terms of the length of the speech."

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'Cringe': Trump's SOTU speech derided as 'national embarrassment' by internet

A wave of critiques rolled in Tuesday night after President Donald Trump's State of the Union address, with plenty of people saying that the president's speech sounded eerily like one of his MAGA campaign rallies.

The president gave a rambling, record-breaking speech in the House Chamber amid growing concerns over his handling of priorities among voters, the economy and looming potential military action with Iran.

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MAGA piles on Amy Coney Barrett as Trump slams Supreme Court justices to their faces

President Donald Trump slammed members of the Supreme Court to their faces during his State of the Union Address on Tuesday evening, attacking them over their "unfortunate" ruling blocking his ability to impose tariffs unilaterally under emergency powers law — a situation he has vowed to rectify by finding other federal statutes to do the same thing.

Trump's rant earned enthusiastic adulation by far-right MAGA figures on social media — many of whom focused in on the expression worn by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a right-wing Trump appointee who ruled against Trump's tariffs.

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Trump's Cabinet looked like they were on 'horror ride of their lives' during SOTU: analyst

President Donald Trump's State of the Union address on Tuesday made his Cabinet members look like they were on the "horror ride of their lives," according to one analyst.

Trump gave a record-breaking speech on Tuesday night, where he meandered through topics ranging from the economy to affordability and a few callous attacks against Democrats. Conservative analyst Rick Wilson described the speech as a "lie-a-palooza."

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Trump mercilessly mocked after 'bragging' about kicking people off of food stamps

President Donald Trump was swiftly mocked on Tuesday after he bragged about kicking people off food assistance.

Trump said during his State of the Union address that his administration helped "lift" 2.4 million people out of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which provides food assistance to more than 41 million people nationwide. His comments came at a time when his administration cut funding for the popular program by more than $186 billion through his "One Big Beautiful Bill Act."

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Rambling Trump shatters record for longest State of the Union

President Donald Trump spoke for more than 90 minutes Tuesday night during his first State of the Union speech of his second presidential term — breaking records for the longest address in history.

Trump's SOTU speech was reportedly the longest since at least 1964 and broke the previous record for President Bill Clinton's 2000 address, CNN reported.

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Dem delivers blunt explanation for walking out of Trump's State of the Union

One of the Democratic lawmakers who walked out of Presdient Donald Trump's State of the Union Address offered her reasoning to The New York Times on Tuesday evening.

Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-IL) "told me that she left in the middle of Trump’s speech because she 'couldn’t take another minute' of it," reported Michael Gold.

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Woman severely injured by Trump's ICE thrown out of State of the Union

A woman who was brutally injured by President Donald Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota, last month was thrown out of the State of the Union address on Tuesday.

Aliya Rahman, who was invited to attend the speech, was removed from the gallery after Trump began discussing alleged fraud in Minnesota. Trump claimed that the Somali-American community in Minnesota has taken about $19 billion from taxpayers through fraud schemes, although he has provided no evidence supporting that total.

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