All posts tagged "State Of The Union"

Peace talks between the United States and Iran may have been a smokescreen as a decision to strike had already been made, an analyst has claimed.

Bill Press, the former California Democratic Party chair, believes Donald Trump's administration already knew a strike on Iran would be made while also hosting peace talks with representatives. In a column for The Hill, Press claimed a decision could have been made as early as before Trump delivered his State of the Union address.

Press wrote, "Iran didn’t walk away from making a new deal. The U.S. did — and it started bombing the next morning. In fact, there is reason to believe that the entire Geneva operation was only a smokescreen, designed to fool Iran’s leaders into thinking the U.S. was negotiating in good faith. ...

WASHINGTON — After President Donald Trump’s historically combative State of the Union address, many retiring congressional Republicans are breathing sighs of relief.

“I like teams that are cohesive,” retiring five-term Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) told Raw Story of Trump’s bombastic Tuesday night address.

Bacon’s one of 29 House Republicans heading for the exits, part of a wave of 68 members who’ve announced their retirements after this Congress. ...

The State of the Union address was a chance for Donald Trump to defy the courts in public, according to a behavioral analyst.

Psychotherapist Shelly Dar believes the State of the Union speech for Trump is more about controlling the narrative and threats to his administration's power than anything else. During his speech, which broke the record for the longest State of the Union address, the president made certain claims as a way of building a narrative against his most outspoken critics.

Dar, speaking to The Mirror US, said, "A 108-minute address is not accidental. Length itself becomes dominance. It signals stamina, command, and refusal to be rushed, particularly at a moment when approval ratings and court rulings are challenging him....

CNN unleashed a montage on Wednesday contrasting President Donald Trump and former President Joe Biden, showing how similar their State of the Union remarks were.

Anchor Kasie Hunt asked her panel to compare the two presidents — both plagued by a rocky economy — and their mirrored comments.

"Well, one comparison, of course, that people have made is to former President Joe Biden, right? Who, of course, spent much of his term trying to use good economic numbers to convince Americans that things were actually better than their own budgets, their own pocketbooks made them feel," Hunt said. "We noticed last night that actually what President Trump brought to the table on some of these economic issues, let's just say it resembled what President Biden brought to the table. We'll show you."...

Vice President JD Vance had to face a reality check from an unlikely source Wednesday — Fox News.

Vance was talking to anchor Bill Hemmer following President Donald Trump's rambling and record-breaking State of the Union speech, when Hemmer asked him several pointed questions about dismal polling results showing Americans' dissatisfaction with the economy, The Daily Beast reported.

Hemmer pointed to how the topic was an “issue that might clip” Republicans just months away from midterms. He referred to a Fox News poll conducted from Jan. 23–26 that revealed just 40 percent approve of Trump’s handling of the economy, while 59 percent disapprove, according to The Beast. ...

President Donald Trump's State of the Union address revealed an actuality that MAGA can't ignore ahead of midterms.

Salon's Sophia Tesfaye described on Wednesday how the president's "bragging" about destabilizing the nation appealed to some conservative media outlets; however, some right-wing media have seen the noticeable shift underway in the Republican Party.

"There was no recalibration nor hint of strategic retreat, only chest-thumping and grievance," Tesfaye wrote. "Right-wing media lapped it up."...