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PBS News Hour - Segments

Analysis of Trump's 2026 State of the Union address

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

President Trump delivered his State of the Union address on Tuesday. For analysis, Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett were joined by Lisa Desjardins, Liz Landers, Nick Schifrin, Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report, Republican strategist Kevin Madden, Democratic strategist Faiz Shakir and Tiffany Smiley, a former Republican Senate candidate in Washington state. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

President Trump tonight breaking the record for the longest ever state of the union address,

0:05.0

speaking for an hour and 47 minutes.

0:08.0

He framed the first year of his second term as a string of victories.

0:11.0

Even as polls show deep unease about the country's direction,

0:15.0

he spent the first part of the speech really touting his economic policies.

0:20.0

Then the speech turned combative

0:21.5

at times. He assailed Democrats as being crazy. He sought to reclaim parts of his immigration

0:27.6

agenda, spotlighting the families who lost relatives to crimes committed by undocumented

0:32.6

immigrants. And again, this is a speech that is coming at a time when six and ten Americans

0:37.1

say the country is in a worst place than a year ago.

0:40.9

We'll watch now as the president departs the chamber.

0:44.1

Let's go to our Lisa Desjardin, who, again, has this choice spot in the press gallery just to top the roster where President Trump was speaking this evening.

0:53.4

And Lisa, Democratic leadership was really intent on not becoming a prop with their reactions to President Trump.

1:01.0

They implored Democrats, no signs, no shouting, no reaction.

1:05.3

And yet, that's not what we saw from a number of members of Congress, to include Al Green and Congresswoman Talib and Omar.

1:12.5

What did you see to inspire this evening from your position there?

1:16.3

That's right, Jeff. On the one hand, there were far fewer signs and far fewer members

1:20.8

shouting out this year than last year. However, there were some prominent members, including

1:26.4

especially Representative Ilhan Omar and

1:29.3

Representative Rashida Talib, who repeatedly shouted out, especially during the section on

1:34.9

immigration.

1:36.2

At one point, shouting out Representative Omar, shouting out, You Have Killed Americans.

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