Freak Show: Trump's Error-Filled Speech to Congress Stoked the Chaos

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

As usual, Donald Trump’s speech to Congress Tuesday was filled with falsehoods, exaggerations and insults, though Democratic legislators did not cover themselves with glory, either, with one exception: freshman Sen. Elissa Slotkin, who effectively delivered the party’s rebuttal speech.

Democratic Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) was removed from the House floor after refusing to stop heckling Trump—a violation of decorum worse than a single shout of “You Lie!” At Barack Obama in 2009 by Republican Rep. Joe Wilson (S.C) Wilson later apologized. Green did not.

Normally, opposition members would applaud the announcement of the arrest of a Taliban operative who planned the killing of 13 American servicemen or the appointment of a 13-year-old cancer survivor as an honorary Secret Service agent. Democrats did not applaud after any of Trump’s remarks.

To the contrary, one Democrat yelled at Trump, “Lies, lies, lies” and several others carried signs reading “Musk steals,” “Save Medicaid” and “No King.” Others walked out, especially when Trump said that Joe Biden was “the worst president in American history.” No student of history, Trump didn’t factor in Andrew Johnson or James Buchanan.

https://www.postalley.org/2025/03/07/freak-show-trumps-error-filled-speech-to-congress-stoked-the-chaos/

[LearnedHand]

1. So this is about Democrats' lack of decorum?

I don't know about this milquetoast approach. I wasn't aware Mort Kondrake was known for taking it to the opposition.

[Wiz Imp]

2. The deplorable state of our media on full display

The very first sentence of this article says Trump's speech "was filled with falsehoods, exaggerations and insults". Yet the headline refers to an "error filled" speech. The speech wasn't error filled, it was filled with LIES. Trump's lies are not "errors", they are totally intentional.

This article is not from a major news outlet, but it might as well have been. It would be nice to think that our media will return to some level of usefulness in the future, but unfortunately the likelihood of that happening at this point appears to be about zero.