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LIVE: State of the Union Coverage From the Bulwark (W/ Pete Buttigieg)

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, Politics, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 198 minutes

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Summary

Join Sam Stein, Tim Miller, Andrew Egger Joe Perticone, and more for real-time reaction and analysis as President Trump delivers his State of the Union address. One more thing: special guest Pete Buttigieg will join the panel after the address.

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0:00.0

All right. I hate waiting for it to go live because you never know when it actually is going to go live, doing funny faces, all that stuff.

0:08.9

It's just us and then boom. It's 3,000 extra people in the room.

0:13.2

Hey, everyone. It's me, Sam Stein managing editor at the Bork. I'm with my man, Andrew Eggers, author of Morning Shots.

0:20.5

Tim Miller is about to join

0:22.1

us. He's got to do responsible dad thing before he signs on. But fret not. Tim's going for the

0:28.3

long haul. He is going to watch the entirety of the upcoming state of the union address. The whole

0:34.6

thing. We have rumors that Donald Trump will speak for potentially over two hours tonight.

0:39.0

Tim promised he's going to be sitting there doing facial expressions the entire time.

0:43.9

Just wants you to watch him, watch Trump.

0:48.0

As you can tell, we are waiting for the president to deliver his first official state of the union of his second term.

0:54.4

He did a speech last year.

0:55.2

It wasn't technically the state of the union address.

0:58.3

We will be here to watch it.

1:00.9

But then we're going to be jumping back on when it is over to analyze it.

1:05.8

Andrew will be there.

1:06.5

Tim will be there.

1:07.1

Sarah Longwell will be there.

1:08.7

We have a surprise guest, not much of a surprise

1:11.2

you've announced it. Pete Buttigieg will join us at some point tonight to talk about the whole

1:16.9

shebang. We're going to cover Abigail Spanberger's response to Trump. It's going to be a exceedingly

1:22.7

late night. I need some caffeine probably to make it through it. Andrew, what are your thoughts, your fears, your hopes, your expectations, your dreads heading into this evening?

1:34.4

Yeah.

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