Unrelenting bigotry, lies and attacks: Joe reacts to Trump’s State of the Union
Morning Joe
Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist
3.9 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 44 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, |
| 0:10.0 | I am officially announcing the war on fraud to be led by our great Vice President J.D. Vance. |
| 0:18.0 | And if we're able to find enough of that fraud, we will actually have a balanced |
| 0:25.2 | budget overnight. It'll go very quickly. Isn't that a shame? You should be ashamed of yourself, |
| 0:31.2 | not standing up. You should be ashamed of yourself. That is why I'm also asking you to end deadly sanctuary cities. |
| 0:40.3 | They want to cheat, they have cheated, and their policy is so bad that the only way they can get elected is to cheat. |
| 0:47.3 | And we're going to stop it. We have to stop it, John. |
| 0:51.3 | These people are crazy. |
| 0:54.2 | I'm telling you, they're crazy. |
| 0:56.2 | We're lucky we have a country. |
| 0:58.0 | With people like this, Democrats are destroying our country, but we've stopped it just in the nick of time. |
| 1:04.0 | President Donald Trump with a slew of attacks against Democrats during his state of the union last night, |
| 1:12.9 | including saying, the only way they can get elected is to cheat. |
| 1:18.4 | We will have the biggest takeaways from the address and a fact check on many of his false |
| 1:23.4 | claims about the economy and a number of other topics. |
| 1:27.4 | We only have four hours, so we're not going to be able to get to all the lies that claims about the economy and a number of other topics. Hold on, hold on, hold on. |
| 1:27.6 | We only have four hours. |
| 1:28.8 | So we're not going to be able to get to all the lies. |
| 1:30.9 | We're not going to be able to give you all the fact checks, but we'll do the best we can |
| 1:35.2 | with the four hours that we're given. |
| 1:36.7 | And the factually incorrect and very misleading lies against the Democrats and how the |
| 1:42.3 | position he put them in last night was interesting, which is why |
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