Facts Don’t Care About Your Failings

The Damage Report with John Iadarola

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News, Politics, Government

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Trump doubles down on lying about the economy during his State of the Union speech. CBS’s Tony Dokoupil fawns over Trump’s speech. Polling shows that people were unconvinced by Trump after his State of the Union. Mike Johnson gives a new warning ahead of the midterms. The DOJ allegedly withheld dozens of Epstein documents related to Trump. Host: John Iadarola (@johniadarola) Co-Host: Sharon Reed (@SharonReedLive) ***** SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE TIKTOK ☞ https://www.tiktok.com/@thedamagereport INSTAGRAM ☞ https://www.instagram.com/thedamagereport TWITTER ☞ https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport FACEBOOK ☞ https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT 👕 MERCH ☞ https://shoptyt.com Our listeners get 50% off for life plus Free Shipping AND 3 Free Gifts at mengotomars.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to The Damage Report.
0:01.7	Make sure to follow and rate our show with five stars.
0:19.8	Hello, one and all, and welcome the big news Wednesday.
0:22.6	So Wednesdays tend to be big.
0:30.6	That's why we named it this, but one of the ways that they tend to be big is Wednesday always gets,
0:36.6	you know, the big crack at the response to the State of the Union, which I did live coverage of yesterday on the Young Turks. So we're going to talk quite a bit about that. We have a lot of other news too. Don't worry. But we're going to talk quite a bit about that starting soon and joining me to break it down. Sharon is here. How's it going? It's going great. You guys were great last night. A lot to break down, because a lot was broken.
1:00.0	Yeah, I feel like the country's been breaking down, so thematically it works.
1:04.0	But yeah, we're going to talk about some of what he said, a little of what he didn't say,
1:09.0	desperately scared to talk about certain topics,
1:11.7	how the media is interpreting and also what people seem to think coming out of it. So we have
1:16.5	a lot that we're going to break down right there. I do want to, before we get into all that,
1:20.6	I just wanted to thank a couple members of the audience. So I had recently been talking like
1:25.1	during our social breaks about my daughter starting to get into Lego, like the Duplo's or whatever, and how I was shocked to find out that those are the most expensive objects in the world.
1:37.3	Like Lego is so expensive, so wildly expensive.
1:40.3	But anyway, so hubby dragon and cloud dragon,
1:45.0	to our two awesome members of the community,
1:48.0	sent a big box of their kids' old duplos,
1:52.0	like a big box with animals and all these pieces and everything,
1:56.0	which is super nice of them, and is gonna certainly help me out. And so I'm sure Rain is going to have
2:03.2	a lot of fun over the next few years playing with that. So thank you to Hubby Dragon and Cloud
2:06.9	Dragon. Super nice for you. Thank you. And with that said, we are going to jump into the news.
2:11.6	We'll be starting off with State of the Union. But aside from that, we also have Mike Johnson
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