Trump falls into his own trap at the State of the Union, and I've got two interviews,

attorney Norm Eisen and CNN host Alex Michelson.

I'm Brian Tyler Cohen, and you're listening to No Lie.

There was a trap laid at the State of the Union that Trump 100% needed to avoid,

and yet walked right into.

And it was on display quite a bit, but here are a few moments that summed up quite well.

A short time ago, we were a dead country.

Now we are the hottest country anywhere in the world, the hottest.

Our country is winning again.

In fact, we're winning so much that we really don't know

what to do about it. People are asking me, please, please, please, Mr. President, we're

winning too much. We can't take it anymore. We're not used to winning in our country

until you came along. We're just always losing, but now we're

winning too much. And I say, no, no, no, you're going to win again. You're going to win big.

You're going to win bigger than ever. Okay, so let's go way back in time to the 2024 election.

Watching Democrats insist that the economy was the best it's ever been,

effectively managing to alienate themselves in the eyes of voters who felt that that wasn't the case at all and that people who were claiming otherwise were out of touch. It would have been

bad enough that Democrats were presiding over a country where people were hurting so much

economically. But it was the fact that those Democrats seemed proud of it, that that was the

straw for so many Americans. And of course, we all, you know, saw what happened next in the 2024

election where Republicans took the House, the Senate, the White House, all pretty brutal.

But it was born out of that disconnect between what a political party is saying and how Americans

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