SOTU REACTION | 2/25/26
The A.M. Update
Aaron McIntire
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🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Aaron McIntire recaps key moments from last night's State of the Union Address, and why this year's SOTU and last year's Joint Address are so unique.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, February 25th, 2026. |
| 0:02.8 | Let's take a look back at the State of the Union Address next on the AM Update. |
| 0:10.3 | Clocking in at just under two hours, President Trump delivered his first state of the union address of his second administration. |
| 0:20.1 | We're just going to go through what I flagged I thought |
| 0:22.7 | was interesting and caught my eye during the nearly two-hour speech. |
| 0:28.2 | Let's start here. |
| 0:31.0 | President Trump started off the speech, of course, by seeing Al Green, the congressman from Texas being escorted less than a minute into his speech. |
| 0:41.3 | Of course, President Trump, as every president basically does, also said this. |
| 0:45.9 | And for all of these reasons, I say tonight, members of Congress, the state of our union is strong. |
| 0:54.8 | Whoever the audio tech is was probably sweating bullets for about the first 10 to 15 minutes. |
| 1:00.6 | President Trump's microphone was clipping pretty badly there. |
| 1:04.1 | During the first few minutes of the state of the union address, President Trump also welcomed |
| 1:08.1 | in the USA men's national hockey team, really to a great fanfare and choreography, having them come in and enter through the press gallery. |
| 1:22.7 | Of course, the optics here of the U.S. men's national team, the gold medal winners in the Milan Cortina Olympics, is that they, as I said, entered through the press gallery. |
| 1:34.3 | So none of the press, of course, was clapping. |
| 1:36.3 | And then the cameras panned over to the Democrats. |
| 1:40.1 | Very few of them were clapping for the U.S. men's national team. |
| 1:45.7 | By the way, Senator John Fedetterman of Pennsylvania, only senator to shake President Trump's hand. President Trump spent |
| 1:51.8 | relatively a short amount of time speaking about the economy. He touted tariffs. He |
| 1:57.9 | touted some employment numbers as well. He bragged about the tax cuts. |
| 2:04.5 | That was the first uh-oh moment from the Democrats. As President Trump pointed to their body |
| 2:11.0 | and said, it's these guys who voted against no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and then the Democrats, the Democrats, |
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