Trump's SOTU show

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🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Over the course of one hour and 47 minutes, President Donald Trump delivered the longest address to Congress in history. This year's State of the Union address, his first official one since returning to office, saw Trump tick through a list of his accomplishments from the past year. But some Republicans are concerned he didn’t lay out enough of a forward-looking policy agenda as the midterms rapidly approach. Playbook's Jack Blanchard and White House Bureau Chief Dasha Burns sift through the record-setting speech.

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0:00.0	Health plans welcome reforms to strengthen Medicare Advantage.
0:03.5	However, a proposal for flat program funding at a time of sharply rising medical costs
0:08.4	and high utilization of care will directly impact seniors' coverage.
0:12.3	If finalized, this proposal could result in benefit reductions and higher costs for 35 million
0:17.6	seniors and people with disabilities when they renew their Medicare Advantage
0:21.3	coverage in October 26. Learn more at a HIP.org.
0:31.8	Today on the Playbook podcast, the longest state of the union in history. Donald Trump breaks three figures and
0:39.5	basically sticks to the script. We've got all the reaction, all the analysis, and all the weirdest
0:45.0	moments from last night. And how well did the Democrats deal with the moment? We'll assess the boycotts,
0:50.2	the heckling and the official response. Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard. And I'm Dasha Burns. It is
0:55.6	Wednesday, February 25th. Dasha, Donald Trump is back in the White House today after the longest
1:03.1	state of the union in history, 107 minutes. I told you. You did. 107 minutes, an hour and 47 minutes. We made some bets yesterday, my friend,
1:13.4	and let's just call it like it is. I'm a winner this morning. I got through last night with four
1:18.0	coffees, one slice of pepperoni pizza and lots of cold water. How did you survive it, Dutche?
1:23.2	Leftover lasagna and wine. That's very sensible, very sensible. As the does sort of settling this morning,
1:31.0	it feels to me like Republicans can be pretty happy with how Donald Trump approached that last night,
1:35.8	Dasch. You know, we talked a lot yesterday morning about would he start attacking the Supreme Court,
1:39.6	what he started calling out the Republican members of Congress he's fallen out with,
1:42.8	would he start rambling and going down all the sorts of lanes that they don't want him to? It wasn't really like that.
1:47.9	Although it was very long, he pretty much stayed on track. And it seems to me that the GOP will be
1:51.9	happy with that. Yeah, there was a lot of relief in my text messages with Republican sources.
1:58.2	Last night, they were pleased with the version of Donald Trump that
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