BREAKING: Trump Faces Biggest SoTU Boycott in History
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Jay Sekulow
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🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Dozens of Democrat Members of Congress are planning to boycott President Donald Trump's State of the Union address – it will be the largest SOTU boycott in U.S. history. Lawmakers such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Senator Chris Murphy, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, and others will attend other viewing events in protest. The Sekulow team discusses the planned boycott, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries' comments, Trump's possible comments on the economy, foreign policy, and tariffs, the ACLJ's legal work – and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | On today's show, we're discussing President Trump facing the biggest state of the union boycott in American history. |
| 0:08.0 | Keeping you informed and engaged. Now more than ever. This is Sekulo. |
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| 0:19.0 | Recall, 1-800-84-3-110. And now your host, Logan Secular. |
| 0:27.7 | Welcome to Seculo. On the day of the State of the Union address, we are live. Give us a call at |
| 0:33.8 | 1-800-684-31-10. I'd love to hear from you. Will Haineson studio. Rick Rinell's will be joining us a little bit later, and we'd love to hear from you again, as President Trump plans to address the nation tonight amidst the biggest boycott. You know, occasionally you'll see someone sit out, but at this point, it is a big number. Dozens of people will be boycotting and holding either their own events or not attending at all. This includes some big names like AOC, Adam Schiff, among many others. Of course, those are probably the top dogs, if you want to say the names, the people, the casuals. Those are your favorites. The civilians know. Those are the ones you support in their decisions. The ones who don't, the ones people who |
| 1:10.8 | don't listen to this show, they all know those two names. They've heard AOC, they've heard Adam Schiff. |
| 1:15.2 | There's a bunch of others. We'll get into it. And of course, their reason is they just can't sit there |
| 1:19.0 | and bear to hear President Trump because how dare he. So it will be a fun night to watch. |
| 1:25.4 | Of course, President Trump coming off of not a great weekend after the Supreme Court had |
| 1:30.7 | the ruling with the tariffs and he seemed to have a pretty big response. |
| 1:34.7 | We'll discuss that as well. |
| 1:36.7 | As what's going on even in Mexico, we're going to discuss that a little bit more with Rick |
| 1:39.9 | Cornell. |
| 1:40.5 | But Will, let's get into it. |
| 1:42.0 | That's right. |
| 1:42.5 | So what we're hearing is dozens of members of Congress will be boycotting and holding |
| 1:48.5 | separate events tonight. |
| 1:51.0 | The largest prior to this was in 2018 when 14 Democrats did not attend the state of the |
| 1:58.4 | Union. |
| 1:59.4 | So almost double if all the numbers we're seeing |
| 2:02.7 | pan out are not going to be there. And we're talking about people like not just members of the |
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