All righty, hello, and everyone, welcome to it.

24th of February, Wednesday, 2026.

I'm Derek Hunter.

This is the Derek Hunter podcast with the State of the Union reaction.

The State of the Union reacts.

It was a long speech.

It was a fine speech.

It wasn't anything new.

I don't think there's going to be much that was said as far as policy that will be

remembered long after,

but that's just the nature of the beast.

Does anybody remember policies from various other state of the union addresses?

I don't, and I do this for a living.

But for pure theatrics, it was perfect.

It was exactly what Donald Trump needed it to be he

defined the night by drawing distinctions and differences between Republicans and

Democrats every chance he got it was amazing watching these idiots sit there and be clown themselves just going, I can't applaud that. You're not going to applaud a military guy got his legs blown off. All right, fine, we'll applaud that. You're not going to, not all Democrats stood up for the Olympic hockey team. You're like, what the hell's wrong with you, people? You cannot make this up.

Tax cuts, well, we don't want that.

The economy's going to.

Can't have that.

Can't applaud that.

Can't applaud a mother of a girl who was killed because liberal policies let her kill her out of prison for, you know,

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