"It was at once a travesty, a farce, and a dystopian exercise in mendacity, disinformation, and fascism."

~ Mary L. Trump

#Trump #Republicans #StateoftheUnion #UpIsDown #DownIsUp
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https://www.marytrump.org/p/america-is-over

"Zooming out from the theatrics and the lies, Trump’s address was notably devoid of any substantive ideas, policies or even time spent discussing the biggest issues confronting his administration."

~ Jay Kuo

#Trump #Republicans #StateoftheUnion #UpIsDown #DownIsUp
/11

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/trumpster-fire

"The most memorable moment of Trump's speech … was Trump rubbing Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts’ face in their mutual corruption."

~ David Kurtz

#Trump #Republicans #StateoftheUnion #UpIsDown #DownIsUp #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #corruption
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/donald-trump-personally-thanks-john-roberts-for-keeping-him-out-of-jail-i-wont-forget-it

"The litany of lies is endless — it's impossible to keep track of."

~ Zev Shalev as quoted by Carl Gibson

#Trump #Republicans #StateoftheUnion #UpIsDown #DownIsUp
/9

https://www.alternet.org/lies-trump-bonkers-speech/

"Quite literally every single line of this State of the Union is a lie and/or has a factual error."

~ Mythili Sampathkumar

#Trump #Republicans #StateoftheUnion #UpIsDown #DownIsUp
/8

https://bsky.app/profile/mythilisk.bsky.social/post/3ljlx75hcfs2s

"Perhaps that’s the ultimate comment on the man and his time as president. There was little of substance here."

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #Republicans #StateoftheUnion #UpIsDown #DownIsUp
/7

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/lets-be-honest-about-the-state-of

"Last night can be boiled down to two things: POWER AND IMAGES

POWER. The words don’t matter, it’s all about projecting the power to ruin America, American lives, and other countries and their citizens’ lives also."

~ Stephanie G. Wilson

#Trump #Republicans #StateoftheUnion #UpIsDown #DownIsUp
/6

https://www.freedomoverfascism.us/p/the-language-of-power

"He described himself as more successful even than George Washington, the first president. As ever, self-deprecation and modesty were nowhere to be found."

~ Lloyd Green

#Trump #Republicans #StateoftheUnion #UpIsDown #DownIsUp
/5

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/05/donald-trump-speech-to-congress-reaction

"Today is the first day of Trump’s second Presidency that his average approval rating is net negative

~ Armand Domalewski, quoted by Greg Dworkin

#Trump #Republicans #StateoftheUnion #UpIsDown #DownIsUp
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/5/2307917/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-The-Trump-Slump-hits-investors

"Donald Trump’s marathon address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday was littered with false claims, many of them falsehoods he has previously stated, been corrected on, and continued to repeat regardless."

~ Robert Mackey

#Trump #Republicans #StateoftheUnion #UpIsDown #DownIsUp
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/05/trump-congress-address-fact-check

"Analysis: He's lying. Again. Still."

~ Greg Dworkin

#Trump #Republicans #StateoftheUnion #UpIsDown #DownIsUp
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/5/2307917/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-The-Trump-Slump-hits-investors

Nick Anderson's commentary (via cartoon) on Putin-Musk-Trump's state of the union.

#Putin #Musk #Trump #StateoftheUnion
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https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-strength-of-the-union

"Republicans won’t tell us the truth, and Democrats can’t seem to rouse themselves into an organized effort to combat their lies. We must tell the truth ourselves. As unrelentingly as we can and in as many contexts as we can, we have no choice but to keep telling the truth until we have drowned out all the lies. Because the truth will always matter."

Read the article and Renkl's list at https://archive.ph/qWGuF.

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #economy #chaos #destruction #lies #disinformation
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