WATCH LIVE: State of the Union Address
Theme of success, with Rush Limbaugh as special guest.
Trump’s third State of the Union Address begins tonight around 9 PM ET. You can watch live below and this post will be continuously updated with the latest.
It should be a good time, seeing as impeachment deliberations continue. Despite or in spite of the lower house circus, Trump’s approval ratings hit an all time high.
Earlier today, Mike blogged about what we can expect to hear in tonight’s SOTU. We’re told it’s going to be remarkably low key, there will be no mention of the big “I” in the room, and Trump will focus on “relentless optimism.”
Reports are that Rush Limbaugh will be in attendance at the invitation of Trump, and that Trump will announce he is awarding Rush the Medal of Freedom.
Yup, there he is, a bearded and thin-looking Rush next to Melania.
[Rush Limbaugh and Melania Trump, SOTU 2020]
UPDATES
Great story about Gen. Charles McGee (one of the last Tuskegee Airman) and his 13 year old great grandson (who wants to be in the Space Force) #SOTU pic.twitter.com/7GHUF2RHD8
— Matt Batzel (@MattBatzel) February 5, 2020
A small cluster of Democrats including Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Mark Pocan don't stand for Charles McGee, the former Tuskegee Airman introduced by Trump
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) February 5, 2020
"Lawmakers in this room have endorsed legislation… wiping out the private health insurance plans of 180 million very happy Americans. To those watching at home tonight, I want you to know, we will never let socialism destroy American health care."
Audible groans from Democrats
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) February 5, 2020
There has long been a revered SOTU tradition that the Speaker of the House does not exhibit opposition or ridicule for the remarks of a president (even if he is from the opposing party). Pelosi is shattering that tradition by nodding in the negative and shaking her head.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) February 5, 2020
President Trump: "If you believe we should defend American patients, stand with me to pass legislation to prohibit free healthcare for illegal aliens." #SOTU
— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) February 5, 2020
Rush did not look well tonight. Happy, but not well, as Trump acknowledged him, and Melania put the Medal of Freedom around his neck.
Mitch McConnell, and two of his greatest accomplishments, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, all got shout outs.
Pelosi openly rips up copy of Trump State of the Union speech
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Thanks Professor for the thread.
Nancy is about to chop on her dentures so hard that they fly out of her mouth!
The White House
Speaker Pelosi just ripped up:
One of our last surviving Tuskegee Airmen.
The survival of a child born at 21 weeks.
The mourning families of Rocky Jones and Kayla Mueller.
A service member’s reunion with his family.
That’s her legacy.
https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1224902083209502721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1224902083209502721&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheconservativetreehouse.com%2F2020%2F02%2F04%2Fpresident-trump-state-of-the-union-address-900pm-et-livestream%2F
See that the DEMS are celebrating their KKK by dressing in white again!
I read a story at another site: supposedly Pelosi and the Squad will be taking a knee.
Word on the street says that Democratic congresswomen wear white during SOTU only because House Rules Prohibit wearing Giant Vagina Costumes.
In honor of Robert “Sheets” Byrd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-V40LGyvhE
“Don’t wear White after Labor Day!” – Serial Mom
But it’s not after Labor Day, it’s before Labor Day — eight months before.
Oops, seven months. Even better.
Nikki Haley
.@AOC
& the Dems who chose to boycott the SOTU. When you represent people, your job is not to just do the things you like. It is to rep ALL people. Listening to the issues by the Pres is your job. Maybe someone else should step in who is willing to do the job that you aren’t.
No, it isn’t their job, and their constituents don’t expect it of them. And I’d much rather they stay away than make a disgrace of themselves as did so many of their colleagues who attended. If you don’t know how to behave at such an event, don’t go.
Nancy Pelosi and her paper shuffling. Witch doesn’t miss a trick.
gadeplorable says:
Should’ve whacked Nancy upside the head with her binder.
Shoulda done what I did: hang a towel over the tv on the right side, blocking out pelosi.
It’s still hard to believe those Jew-hating maggots omar and tlaib are elected to congress.
Poor Rush: he deserves the best, and it’s heartbreaking to see him ill.
The left is despicable. Trump lists positive after positive and these despicable Democrats remain seated and mute.
He’s zinging the “previous administration” by using that term when he contrasts his achievements with the lack of anything good from the “previous administration.”
Keep up the zinging.
The snub of Nan’s extended hand was terrific, just terrific.
Besides, Trump was being cautious. She mighta have had one of the Russian poison devices in her palm.
SanFranNan continues her reading. I think it’s Bonfire of the Vanities and she’s at the part where Sherman McCoy and his girlfriend get mugged by a minority criminal, a product of the Democrats’ Great Society welfare programs.
He needs to add that under his administration there have never been a deeper ocean of liberal tears also.
I hope he announces the Medal of Freedom for Rush Limbaugh during the speech also.
Too good not to pass along.
FrankieZee says:
So you are a minority who finally has been able to get a descent paying job and Trump talks about it, all the Republicans get up and clap, and you have the DEMORATS sitting on their ARSES. I wonder how that makes the minorities feel.
Pelosi just violated protocol by not giving traditional State of Union introduction: “Members of Congress, I have the high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you the President of the United States.”
She said: “Members of Congress, the president of the United States”
She’s a very small person, utterly corrupt, and wholly obnoxious. What else can we expect?
She’s like a teacher in Summer,
No class!
STICK A FORK IN THE SIT ON THEIR HANDS DEMS!!!!!!!!
THEIR PARTY IS DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Greg1 says:
Pelosi is dying inside! Just saw her start muttering to herself!
Trump is breaking her with every single sentence!
As the camera pans across the sour faces of democrats……he’s breaking them too!
I think Pelosi is “chewing nuetronium
Looks like he was telling Roberts what a crap job he did on the Senate trial.
The disgusting outburst just now from the Dem Women in White Brigade made me furious. Who do they think they are???
EOS, what did I miss?! What did I miss??
It appears the Klu Klux Klan celebrating Dems are giving their Nazi salute. Check it out on this tweet.
https://twitter.com/Shem_Infinite/status/1224887402273046531
They were shouting and using a hand signal.. No doubt someone will describe it tomorrow.
He’s really laying it on thick. Grinding it into the dems faces hard.
Good, they deserve it.
President Trump should give Nancy Peelosi a coloring book and some crayons at the next SOTU. She looks like she is looking a restaurant menus.
This SOTU has been a major F*** you to every democrat. And he hasn’t even mentioned impeachment. Yet.
Chuck Woolery
Man oh Man, this is more than a SLAM DUNK SPEECH.
Chuck Woolery
Pelosi is so dazed and confused, she can’t even acknowledge the killing of a terrorist.
https://twitter.com/chuckwoolery
GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT SPEECH!
With Pelosi’s deliberate distractions, etc., I wish the Senate were larger so it could be held there.
Or heck, out on the lawn…. Plenty of room for seats.
Tradition has it held in the House, but there is no requirement that it be done there.
Seeing Pelosi with her facial ticks, denture checks, strange head movements filled me with sadness that this Country could ever allow such a vile human being to hold any office, let alone one of power.
Given the partisan treatment, and that the Turtle allowed this farce to go beyond the SOTU, I felt Trump would have been justified in changing venue. Why give honor to a place where Schiff is lauded for his lies, where Nadler and Pelosi schemed to effect a coup?
Let’s all hope we never have to see Pelosi in the Speaker’s seat at another SOTU.
Epic curb stomp!
Is it traditional for the Speaker to ostentatiously tear up his or her copy of the speech when it reaches its conclusion?
Or was it yet another example of Democrat pettiness?
Others have already said it better than I can.
pocaMAGAjunta says:
Good job Nancy, Your just ripped the democrat party into pieces.
dogsmaw says:
That is the most childish act I have ever seen done by a government official.
Impeach Nancy Pelosi NOW
Greg1 says:
They thought it would embarrass Trump to give the speech before the acquittal.
All it did was give an even bigger audience the chance to tune in and see Trump telling all the good things going on that the media won’t report about, watch Trump being Presidential, and watch democrats behave horribly.
Massive backfire for democrats. Huge.
I just watched Pelosi, at the end of SOTU, tear up her copies of the President’s speech. What a pitiful, limited cretin.
…and the look on her face was so confident that Trump would be disappointed at her little show and then her face fell when Trump never turned around.
Nancy Pelosi tore up the speech at the end. Pure class, all the way.
WOW! https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1224897851303628801
Is Il Duce Pelosi on drugs or something? I know she would love to see President Trump disgraced, but her facial ticks, her continual odd head movements, her continual checking on her dentures, all just reminds me of a person I knew who was addicted to various chemicals.
I don’t blame POTUS for not shaking her hand. Her unconstitutional actions against him deserves an even stronger response than just snubbing a handshake with that vile creature.
I though he gave an excellent speech. I am always taken aback with the left in particular refusing to applaud things which reflect American Greatness. I get it that this a big political show, and parties tend to sit on their hands through much of an opposing President’s key points, but there were so many times when it was so inappropriate to withhold applause for things like improved unemployment numbers for every demographic.
This is Trump’s economy. We lived through the Obama years and were told this is as good as it gets, then Trump reverses the trend through his actions. Just as Reagan had done to reverse the malaise of the Carter disaster.
I hope that this is the last time Pelosi will be sitting behind any President for a SOTU address. She deserves to be reduced to nothing status, less than even minority leader.
Fox Business was discussing that didn’t happen.
I saw that it didn’t happen.
Pelosi NEVER extended her hand.
So Pelosi is the one in breach of common manners.
She started to reach out, and he turned away. Fair response to her abbreviated intro. Why bother to pretend they like each other?
It must have been the “on top looking down” camera angle then that caused me to miss it. Thanks.
Watch it again
I missed it the first time too
He handed her the speech, and she then put out her right hand. He turned away
It must have been the camera angle then that caused me to miss it. Thanks.
I watched it, it’s on YouTube, you can plainly see she took the speech then extended her hand. It was quick, as you know it would have been a perfunctory type cold fish hand shake, but it was there.
Honest. https://youtu.be/9LxTZe4kejU at about the 6 or 7 second mark you can see she accepts the speech folder in her left and extends her right.
Thanks. It must have been the odd camera angle being used then that caused me to miss it.
She obviously can’t control the gumming mouth movements, since she made them throughout with millions of of people watching. She must have been told how gormless that looks.
And her reaction when Trump refused to shake her offered hand was to grin, flirt with the air/audience (yes, she does this all the time) and then… start gumming!
I think Pence was practicing his ventriloquism and Pelsoi kept falling for it with her answers.
Fantastic SOTU speech. At least a 9 out of a possible 10 on a zero to 10 scale, and I can see scoring it a 10+.
On the other hand, Speaker Pelosi did what I thought was impossible–scoring in negative numbers. Her face during much of the speech said, “This very same speech should be being given here by Hillary,” and other times was just plain ungracious. And, then, ripping up her copy of the speech while the President is standing in front of her????? Damn, Pelosi has one of the diseases of old age—the loss of filters.
HILLARY: “It should be me getting Impeached NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
I guess Rush was expecting him to announce the PMF, but he looked shocked when it was presented on the spot.
That was awesome!
Expect a lot of leftist howling at the sky.
Hat tip Reddit:
That speech was about America doing well.
It was about the American people living better because of the booming economy.
And she ripped it up.
The speech was positive, uplifting, and the Democrats were stone faced.
I get the show they do, but too many times were given when normal, sane opposition members would at the very least applaud. Not to say they didn’t on the rare occasion they were given permission by Il Duce Pelosi, but Americans should be filled with shame that there are so many hate filled leftists in that august body.
Cspan caller: “Pelosi tearing up the speech just sealed POTUS reelection.”
More from Cspan:
Cspan callers ripping Pelosi and Dems to shreds.
Multiple Dems say they’ll never vote Dem again.
Cspan callers:
Dem Caller on Cspan has had it with Dems now.
Hates the way they behaved at SOTU! – A few Dems in a row.
Yes, it made me so happy to be an American and have a president who loves us and loves the USA!
Now cut the old girl some slack. Yes she ripped up his speech. But if she had done what she really wanted to do, she woulda rubbed the pieces on her backside. So she did show some restraint.
What a silly bint.
When it was announced that Rush was being awarded the Medal of Freedom, my first reaction was uh-oh. Now, tonight, with Rush arriving in a wheelchair (which we did not know at first), and then seeing him in a suit that clearly is now too large for him, in addition to Melania awarding the Medal of Freedom, my initial thoughts are this is not good. Although Rush downplayed his illness to his audience, I have this horrible feeling that he knows his time is limited. He has millions of listeners pulling for him, and miracles do happen. Let’s hope Rush finds his.
Best camera angle of Nancy shredding the Constitution…er…
President Trump’s SOTU speech.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1224912651119022082
I think Pelosi was doing her 2019 tax returns. The way she went back and forth over the same sheets has to be a tax return. Then the poor woman tore it up! Oh well, there is always TurboTax.
WTH? Even from their point of view, how does this make any sense?
That isn’t a good start to a working relationship.
I’m surprised that “Nan The Ripper” didn’t stroke out right in front of the House. She was really ticked off–and showed it.
I’m a reformed liberal who always voted Democratic but admired many Republicans over the years such as Jack Kemp, Orin Hatch, and Alan Simpson to name a few. But I will never go back. I don’t even recognize the Democratic Party now. Hopefully the adults will take control and, as a Republican, I will be able to find a few Democrats to admire.