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The Philip DeFranco Show

Trump’s State Of The Union Was WORSE Than You Know & The Anthropic Pete Hegseth Situation is CRAZY

The Philip DeFranco Show

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4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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0:00.0

Last night, President Trump delivered a nearly two-hour state of the union address, and it

0:03.8

went about as well as you'd expect.

0:04.9

We're winning so much that we really don't know what to do about it.

0:10.4

People are asking me, please, please, please, Mr. President, we're winning too much.

0:15.4

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

0:19.1

There were shouting matches, a confiscated protest sign, will the damn stand traps, and Medal of Freedom moments, and enough fact-checkable claims to really keep us here all week. But beyond the spectacle, there are real signs buried in the speech about where both parties are headed into the midterms, and that is what we actually need to talk about. So let's start with one of the things that made this one memorable, and it wasn't the policy. When Trump asked the room to pledge that their priorities were protecting American people, not illegal aliens, Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar, just wasn't having it.

0:44.5

And enact serious penalties for public officials who blocked the removal of criminal aliens.

0:50.6

In many cases, drug lords, murderers all over our country. They're blocking the removal

0:57.3

of these people out of our country. And you should be ashamed of yourself. Well, maybe not clear

1:04.3

in the moment, Omar was shouting, you have killed Americans, you are a murderer. And of course,

1:08.2

she was referencing Renee Good and Alex Prattie, who were two of her constituents who were shot and killed by Trump troopers earlier this year. With Omar, also later posting that Trump killed two of my constituents and called him a liar. And the reaction to this, it was split exactly how you'd expect. Democrats on the Homeland Security Committee backed her saying that ICE is killing U.S. citizens, and the coward in the White House has nothing to say. Mike Speaker Mike Johnson said that Omar and Representative Rashida-Talib

1:28.1

were nearly ejected for heckling.

1:29.6

And there was also the situation with Texas Democratic Representative Al Green, who stood in the center aisle holding a sign that read, Black people aren't apes, which is a direct callback to Trump's post about the Obama's. With that, you had House Majority Leader Steve Scalice swiping the sign on his way in and other Republicans trying to physically block it from the cameras.

1:44.1

With Green being removed early, but not before making his point.

1:46.7

When you allow that level of racism, swiping the sign on his way in and other Republicans trying to physically block it from the cameras. With grain being removed early, but not before making his point.

1:46.7

When you allow that level of racism to continue, when you tolerate it, you perpetuate it.

1:52.0

I refuse to be a part of the perpetuation of this level of racism.

1:56.0

And this is why I wanted to confront him up close.

1:59.0

And judging by the look on his face, he got the message.

2:01.6

And also with this, some Democrats just not bothering to show up at all, about 30 members of Congress,

2:05.6

joined hundreds of people on the National Mall for what they called the People's State of the Union,

2:09.6

which was a counter-rally,

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