So last night, the President of the United States gave his very first official state of the union address.

And it was, shall we say, huge. We'll go through all of it. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show.

Well, we had a lot of fun last night here at The Daily Wire. We did a full-on state of the union watch party. And Trump gave a pretty good speech, and we all had a lot of fun. Well, I had less fun than the others, because they were all smoking cigars. I'm not a cigar smoking smoker, and so I got to inhale their secondhand smoke all evening long. Yet, nonetheless, a good time was had by all. You can go and view that entire thing over at Facebook. I believe we did it at YouTube as well. You can check that out. Or you can download it because I think that it's available on our podcast stream as well. So we'll get to everything Trump-related. We'll get to the State of the Union. What happened? The blowback, the responses from Joe Kennedy III, you know, that great sion of the Kennedy family, as well as Bernie Sanders' response, the media losing their mind, will go over all of it. But first, I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at Tracker. So I got up this morning, and you know what? I couldn't find my keys. But it wasn't a problem because I just went to my phone and then I opened up my tracker app. I hit a button and

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It was the third longest long. It was an hour

and 20 minutes or so. It was the third longest state of the union address ever recorded.

It, in terms of a number of words, it wasn't quite that long, but Trump's cadence is relatively

slow. It was also quite successful. So the poll numbers show, according to CBS News poll,

75% of Americans thought that this speech was good. 75% of Americans thought

this speech was unifying. Fully 43% of Democrats thought the speech was good. According to the

CBS News poll, 91% favored what they heard on infrastructure. 81% said that the president was

uniting the country. 75% approved of the speech. 75% favored what they they heard on national security and 72% favored what they heard on immigration. That by any measure is a massive success for the president of the United States. So we're going to go through this because there are really two aspects to the, three aspects, I think, to the Trump speech that are noteworthy. One is the good, one is the bad, and one is the ugly. Okay, the good is a lot of what Trump did here. He did some great storytelling. Whoever wrote the speech did a great job of getting sympathetic victims in the stands. Everybody does the Ronald Reagan stick where you get a bunch of people who sit up there in the rafters, and then you say, and there's Bob. Bob's a great American, hand for Bob, and everybody claps. Well, that's been misused for years and years. Trump did it right last night. We'll talk about all the things Trump did right. We'll also talk about the Democrats' response, because the Democrats apparently had super glue attached to their asses. They literally did not get up for the entire speech. I mean, even on things where they agree, even on things like black unemployment is down and everybody's cheering. And then you look over and the congressional black caucus is sitting. It's like, what are you against black people working? What's your problem? There were times during the speech where Trump was saying things like, we all stand for the American flag. And you look over, all the Democrats are sitting. And Nancy Pelosi is chewing on her dentures. And you're thinking, is this really your strategy? So we'll talk about the democratic strategy here because it doesn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense. They basically define themselves as the anti-Trump party as opposed to even the progressive party at this point. Even things they agree with, they will boycott if Trump is involved with them. And then there was the, so that was the ugly, and then there was the bad. The bad was Trump didn't say word one. It really was stuff Trump didn't say. So Trump did not talk at all about fiscal responsibility in the speech because Trump is not a fiscally responsible guy. Trump doesn't care about deficits. He doesn't care about debts. He's more like George W. Bush than he is like Ronald Reagan on that score. He's certainly more like either of those than he's like Calvin Coolidge. He's not somebody who deeply cares about entitlements running out of control. He said this during the campaign. So he's been pretty obvious about the idea he doesn't mean to tamp down spending. He said in the speech that Obamacare is basically dead, which it isn't. He suggested in the speech that he wanted to blow out the spending on infrastructure to the tune of $1.5 trillion, which is not a conservative policy. He said he wanted paid parental family leave. That is not a conservative policy. He didn't say one word about reducing the federal deficit or the federal debt. That's because that's tough political stuff, and Trump doesn't want to touch all that stuff. So that's the bad stuff. But we'll go through it a little bit more in detail. So last night, Trump walks out and pretty much everybody stands and claps. There are some Democrats, particularly members of the CBC who will stand and clap for Louis Farrakhan, but they won't stand and clap for the elected president of the United States. Trump walks out and he takes the stage.

And the first thing he does is he lays out the fact that he's had a very good economic first year.

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