On Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump delivered the longest State of the Union handle in U.S. historical past, at one hour and 48 minutes, which signifies one factor: The president was determined to persuade People to like him, and switch across the abysmal ballot numbers he has suffered for almost the whole thing of his second time period thus far.
The issue with Trump is that he doesn’t perceive that, particularly in relation to him, much less is extra.
If Trump needed individuals to see him as a greater, extra dignified president, and a greater, much less deplorable human being, he wanted to offer us much less barely coherent rambling, much less outward bigotry and denigration of whole non-white ethnic teams, much less of his drained blaming of his predecessors for all of his failings, and fewer simply debunked lies. As a substitute, he gave us extra — an hour and 48 minutes of extra of the identical outdated mendacity, bigoted, perpetually-aggrieved President Donald Trump.
Let’s begin with the half the place Trump circles again to the years-old fraud scandal in Minnesota as an excuse to renew spreading hate speech behind a podium about the whole Somali neighborhood in Minnesota and throughout the globe.
“Relating to the corruption that’s plundering — actually, it’s plundering America — there’s been no extra gorgeous instance than Minnesota, the place members of the Somali neighborhood have pillaged an estimated $19 billion from the American taxpayer,” Trump claimed, prompting Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar — whom Trump has attacked quite a few occasions, usually only for being of Somali descent — to shout, “That’s a lie — you’re mendacity!”
Undeterred, Trump simply saved on mendacity and being an absolute bigot.
“The Somali pirates who ransacked Minnesota remind us that there are giant components of the world the place bribery, corruption, and lawlessness are the norm, not the exception,” Trump continued. “Importing these cultures by way of immigration and open borders brings us issues proper right here, to the usA., and it’s the American individuals who pay the worth…”
So, first, let’s begin with the very fact examine on the fraud case in Minnesota.
From CBS Information:
President Trump’s “estimated $19 billion {dollars}” determine refers back to the roughly $18 billion in federal funds that supported over a dozen state-run applications in Minnesota since 2018.
The precise extent of the fraud and losses continues to be being investigated. In December 2025, a prime prosecutor prompt the overall quantity of fraud might be $9 billion or extra.
Greater than 90% of the individuals charged in main fraud circumstances introduced earlier than December 2025 had been of Somali descent, in response to the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace for Minnesota. However the variety of individuals of Somali descent charged, 82 people, is a small fraction of the Somali neighborhood throughout the state. Census Bureau information reveals that there are greater than 107,000 individuals who establish as Somali within the state.
Trump didn’t simply, as soon as once more, disparage 107,000 Somali residents over what 82 of them had been charged for doing — whereas utterly ignoring the truth that a white American lady, Aimee Bock, was named by the federal government because the mastermind behind the fraud scheme — he additionally disparaged Somalis all over the place, by generalizing them as “pirates,” invoking the scourge of Somali piracy that has largely occurred off the coast of Somalia.
Trump additionally took the chance to launch right into a white nationalist rant about “cultures” — a transparent reference to Black and brown international cultures, as he has made it abundantly clear that white immigrants will not be his goal — being imported into the U.S. and altering the material of this nice, white nation. (He didn’t say all that in so many phrases, however since we’re all properly accustomed to the “tradition” of whiteness, we all know a watered-down white supremacist speech once we hear one.)
Trump additionally introduced that he had appointed Vice President JD Vance to move the investigation of Somali fraud in Minnesota — which had already been completely investigated since 2021 — as a result of who higher to move a racist, largely political witch hunt towards a complete ethnic group than the man who led a racist, propaganda-reliant witch hunt towards the whole Haitian neighborhood by selling lies about Haitian individuals abducting and consuming pets in Ohio?
Early on throughout Trump’s speech, Democratic Rep. Al Inexperienced was faraway from the auditorium for holding up an indication that learn, “Black individuals aren’t apes,” a reference to Trump posting an AI-generated picture of Barack and Michelle Obama depicted as apes, which resulted in him spending a few weeks defending himself towards allegation of anti-Black racism by parading round all the Black associates he pretends to have.
In hindsight, it appears sort of pointless to toss Inexperienced out only for displaying a reminder that Trump is racist, if the president was simply going to go on to ship a speech that serves as a reminder that Trump is racist.
Anyway, when Trump wasn’t utilizing his time on stage to be the outdated, white bigot he demonstrably is, he was maintaining fact-checkers busy by perpetuating his normal lies about Democrats dishonest in elections, him saving the U.S. from violent crime that had already been trending downwards for many years, the wars he supposedly ended, costs supposedly taking place in U.S. grocery shops and fuel stations, and his tariffs — most of which had been struck down by the Supreme Court docket final week — bringing prosperity to the U.S. by bringing in income, mendacity concerning the quantity of income they introduced in, and omitting the obvious incontrovertible fact that what income they did usher in largely got here out of the pockets of the American client.
Once more, it was all simply extra of the identical outdated Trump, just for one hour and 48 minutes, this time.
Unhappy.
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