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The Damage Report with John Iadarola

State Of The Ruined

The Damage Report with John Iadarola

TYT Network

Politics, Government, News

4.72.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Trump is facing an uphill climb ahead of his State of the Union speech as his polling continues to fall. Trump plans to announce new policies at tonight’s speech. A new report says Trump erased 12 years of Medicare funding. One of Trump's top generals is sounding the alarm on Iran strikes. Republicans are calling for GOP rep. Gonzalez to resign amid affair allegations. A MAGA Senator deleted a post he thought would own the libs. Host: John Iadarola (@johniadarola) ***** 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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The Welcome, one and all happy state of the Union Day to everybody out there.

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Are you excited for what's probably going to be a seven hour long state of the Union?

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I'm a little bit excited, not for the speech necessarily, but because I will actually be covering it live in studio,

1:07.0

which is always more fun than the actual speech.

1:09.0

And we can do some fact check it, we can rip it apart. Maybe I'll do some like live Instagramming about it or something like that. So we're gonna try to have as much fun as we can on State of the Union Day as we are pretty much every day because we already understand the State of the Union is dark and terrible. But don't worry, we're gonna get through it together. It's not clear by now. This is the John Solo show. I'm going to be doing

1:29.7

this solo. I've decided to start off the show by eating half a bag of ruffles. So my mouth is

1:35.6

just a desert of salt right now. Great job, ruffles. You're delicious, but that can't be healthy.

1:41.0

Anyway, we have a lot that we're going to talk about aside from just the state of the

1:44.2

union. We have what looks like at least a minor little scuffle inside the Trump administration

1:49.7

over whether going to war with Iran is a good idea. So that's going to be fun. Donald Trump

1:55.6

has been betrayed by his favorite general. So we'll have that. More damage being done to Medicaid.

2:03.4

That will be fun. Pressure growing on Representative Tony Gonzalez to step down.

2:08.4

Multiple Republicans now calling for that will be entertaining. And Senator Mike Lee tweeted

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