Trump mocks affordability, makes false claims about prices
Way Too Early with Ali Vitali
MS NOW, Ali Vitali
4.5 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In my first year of the second term, should be my third term, but strange things happen. |
| 0:12.0 | I am officially announcing the war on fraud to be led by our great Vice President, J.D. Vance. |
| 0:20.3 | And if we're able to find enough of that fraud, we will |
| 0:24.5 | actually have a balanced budget overnight. It'll go very quickly. Isn't that a shame? You should |
| 0:30.7 | be ashamed of yourself, not standing up. You should be ashamed of yourself. That is why I'm also asking you to end deadly sanctuary cities. |
| 0:41.3 | They want to cheat, they have cheated, and their policy is so bad that the only way they can get elected is to cheat. |
| 0:48.7 | And we're going to stop it. |
| 0:50.0 | We have to stop it, John. |
| 0:53.4 | These people are crazy. I'm telling you. |
| 0:56.7 | They're crazy. |
| 0:58.0 | We're lucky we have a country. |
| 0:59.4 | With people like this, Democrats are destroying our country, but we've stopped it just in the nick of time. |
| 1:07.1 | Those were some of the highlights from President Trump's state of the union address, |
| 1:10.9 | a speech that was full of false claims and angry attacks. |
| 1:14.4 | The question is, how did he address the affordability concerns that millions of Americans have? |
| 1:19.5 | That issue was a core message in the Democratic rebuttal from Governor Abigail Spanberger of Virginia. |
| 1:24.9 | The question is, after a record long state of the union address, |
| 1:32.5 | did anyone stick around to hear it? Plus, we'll dig into the president suggesting that his tariffs could replace income taxes on Americans just days after the Supreme Court struck down many of those |
| 1:37.9 | levies. The question is, how did the justices who were literally in the audience respond to the |
| 1:43.1 | attacks on them? It is way too early for this. |
| 1:55.3 | Good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that's noticing a bit of a theme when it comes to which two presidents like to address Congress the longest. Yeah, I felt every single minute of that when I was in the chamber last night. |
| 2:08.5 | Malie Vitale on this Wednesday, February 25th, and we will start with that news. Because President Trump last night delivered his first state of the union address since returning to office, spoke for an hour and 47 minutes. |
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