Medals, Insults and A Very Long Speech
What A Day
What A Day
4.6 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Trump’s State of the Union address had everything — if by “everything,” you mean easily fact-checkable lies. We also got fearmongering and racism about Somali immigrants… Trump’s frequently used claim that Democrats can only win elections if they cheat… and a lot of awards for members of the armed services. But his overall message was the same we get every single day on Truth Social in between rants about cable television hosts and misused punctuation: we are the hottest country in the world and everything is awesome and great. So to talk more about the longest State of the Union speech in history, we spoke with two people who were covering it from D.C.: Crooked News Editor Greg Walters and What A Day Newsletter writer Matt Berg.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, February 25th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is what a day. The show that is |
| 0:08.1 | blaming President Woodrow Wilson for why we all spent two hours watching President Donald Trump |
| 0:12.7 | Award so many medals. From 1800 to 1913, the state of the Union was a letter to Congress. |
| 0:19.6 | Woodrow Wilson, a terrible person who also re-segregated the federal workforce, |
| 0:24.2 | reinstated the in-person speech thinking, |
| 0:26.5 | what if everyone just watched me talk instead? |
| 0:30.0 | God, I hate Woodrow Wilson. |
| 0:31.8 | Music On today's show, we're up late bringing you the highlights and low lights from the state of the union. |
| 0:48.9 | Trump's speech had everything, if by everything you mean easily fact-checkable lies. |
| 0:53.9 | Like this line, for example. |
| 0:55.9 | It was July 4th of last year when floodwaters tore through a girl's summer camp in |
| 1:02.0 | Central Texas. |
| 1:03.0 | One of the worst things I've ever seen. |
| 1:04.5 | I was there. |
| 1:05.7 | He was not there. |
| 1:07.3 | On July 4th, 2025, he was signing his big Republican spending law debacle disaster |
| 1:11.8 | adventure on the South Lawn of the White House. But don't worry, we got fear-mongering and racism |
| 1:17.2 | about Somali immigrants, too. He also told horrifying and tragic stories in front of the families |
| 1:22.1 | of the people who were forced to endure them to get the audience on board with anti-immigrant |
| 1:26.0 | diatripes. In a moment that Trump was |
| 1:28.0 | clearly waiting for, he demanded members of Congress stand for not protecting, quote, |
| 1:32.4 | illegal aliens. Tonight, I'm inviting every legislature to join with my administration in |
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