March 5, 2025: Trump doubles down

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🗓️ 5 March 2025

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In his joint address to Congress last night, President Donald Trump gave a red-meat speech that lauded his culture war victories, denigrated his political opponents, and, oh yeah, ran until 11pm. But for all the noise in the speech, many of the headlines this morning are about Democrats, who responded to the aggressive and partisan speech in kind. Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) was dramatically ejected from the chamber for shouting that Trump had “no mandate,” and Democrats slowly but steadily walked out of the speech, leaving their side looking threadbare. Playbook managing editor and author Jack Blanchard breaks it all down with chief Playbook correspondent Eugene Daniels and Capitol bureau chief and senior Washington columnist Rachael Bade.

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0:00.0	Presented by BP.
0:02.1	Did it feel at all House of Commons or whatever?
0:06.4	No.
0:07.2	I should have asked you that, Jack.
0:08.7	House of Commons is not like that.
0:10.3	I mean, they do shout at each other, but no one would do an hour and 42 minutes.
0:18.9	Hello, good morning.
0:20.3	This is Playbooks managing editor and author Jack Blanchard. It is Wednesday, March the 5th. And of course, what is driving the day today is the reaction to President Donald Trump's joint address to Congress from last night. I'm sure you were watching it over the course of about an hour and 42 minutes. I think that's just about the
0:38.3	longest one of these we've ever heard. Donald Trump covered a lot of territory making it, yeah,
0:43.5	pretty much the longest joint address to Congress we've ever heard. Let's dive into it right now.
0:48.2	Joining me to talk about this, I've got Chief Playbook correspondent Eugene Daniels and our Capital
0:52.7	Bureau Chief and Senior Washington
0:54.5	columnist Rachel Bade. Hello, guys. Good morning. Thanks for joining.
0:58.8	Hello. Bleary-eyed. Bleary-eyed and happy to be here. A lot to digest today.
1:04.7	Seriously, let's just give me like a very quick hot idea from the very top. Rachel,
1:10.6	what did you, what is your one quick takeaway from the whole thing we saw
1:14.2	last night?
1:15.7	Yeah, I would say my primary takeaway was that Democrats stole the show, but not necessarily
1:22.3	in a good way for the party.
1:24.8	Look, I think there's a reason that minority leader Hakeem Jeffries told his members yesterday to be on their best behavior, not to be protesting, not to draw attention away, and they didn't listen. They made themselves the story. They heckled. They had signs. They walked out.
1:43.9	They got thrown out.
1:45.0	Yeah, Congressman Al Green literally would refuse to sit down and had to be escorted out by the sergeant at arms.
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