There'll be a little disturbance. It won't be much, said the billionaire.

Welcome to the Oath in the Office on this episode. For the first time since becoming

a convicted felon, Donald Trump holds a joint address to Congress.

It was quite a speech, I call it Wine Kampf.

And when he's not declaring trade war on our closest allies, abandoning our European allies,

and abandoning the concepts of freedom, democracy, and honoring treaties,

he sold surrender to a dictator as peace.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to all the fact checkers hired for the speech who still haven't made it home yet.

Adrian Brody thinks the speech was embarrassingly long and self-indulgent.

I'm John Fulessang.

Would you please welcome the star of our podcast, the author of The Oath and the Office, as well as the Presidents and the People,

Professor Extraordair, Corey Brett Schneider.

Thanks, John, and thanks for that intro.

Wow, it was tough to get through.

I made it through almost all of it and then walked out by turning off my television.

I was heartened by some of the protests.

I probably would have liked to have seen more.

But one of the things, you know, I'm hearing from so many listeners, I'm thrilled that people are

tuning in, that they're engaged with what we're saying and what they like about the podcast

and what will continue to do, even in the face of such a dire speech, is a combination of

being real about the crisis that we're

facing. And really, you saw that crisis live for an extraordinarily long amount of time last

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