Love him or hate him, President Donald Trump came out swinging during his first address to a joint session of Congress — touting all his success in his first month and a half as president and laying out a clear path toward America’s future.
However, while Trump was met with a warm welcome by those on the right, the left was incapable of masking its fury.
This was made clear when the president put a 13-year-old brain cancer survivor — who has always wanted to be a policeman — on the center stage. The boy, DJ Daniel, was given a badge and made an honorary member of the Secret Service.
“The chamber erupted,” Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” says, caveating, “at least half of it did.”
“The real story, I think that we have to talk about, is the planned coordinated action, or reaction, or inaction of the Democrats. It was unbelievable. Unbelievable. They just sat there, some with their union-printed signs or dressed in all pink for some unknown reason. Some kind of statement that nobody knew about or really honestly cared,” Glenn says.
“They just sat there, almost throughout the entire thing without moving. When Trump spoke of bringing the hostages back from Gaza, Americans reunited with their families, you would think everybody in the chamber would be like, ‘OK, that was good.’ Nope, not any movement from the Democrats, not a clap, not a twitch,” he continues.
“When he turned to Ukraine, he looked right at them and said, ‘You want to keep this going on for another five years?’ And Elizabeth Warren actually shouted ‘Yes!’ What kind of madness is that?” he asks.
Democratic Rep. Al Green from Texas also disrupted the speech, standing up and screaming over the president while waving his cane.
“He was just screaming, ‘You don’t have a mandate!’” Glenn explains. “Then Speaker Johnson, again here, I’ve never seen it before, he stands up twice and says, ‘Decorum, you are out of order.’ And Al Green just would not sit down. He kept shouting.”
“At first, the other Democrats were shouting with him. The second time, Mike Johnson stood up and said, ‘I’m going to call the sergeant of arms, this is your last warning,’” he continues, noting that when Green kept going, the sergeant of arms escorted him out.
“It’s a first. I mean, I looked all night trying to search the records. I could find no comparisons to this in the modern age,” he adds.
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On Tuesday, 25 Democratic senators released separate videos parroting the same script slamming President Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
In the morning, Senators Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) were mocked by X users for posting videos reciting near-identical lines before Trump's first speech to Congress.
'Who is writing the words that the puppets speak?'
However, as the day unfolded, more than two dozen Democratic senators posted similar videos echoing the same script, including Dick Durbin (Ill.), Chris Coons (Del.), Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Tammy Duckworth (Ill.), Tim Kaine (Va.), Chris Van Hollen (Md.), Gary Peters (Mich.), Mazie Hirono (Hawaii), Peter Welch (Vt.), Ben Ray Luján (N.M.), Martin Heinrich (N.M.), Jeff Merkley (Ore.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.), Brian Schatz (Hawaii), Andy Kim (N.J.), Alex Padilla (Calif.), Mark Warner (Va.), Richard Blumenthal (Conn.), Angela Alsobrooks (Md.), Ed Markey (Mass.), Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.), and Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.).
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The senators' videos matched so closely that many followed the same movements for the introduction: reading the first line before taking a seat to continue reading the remainder of the script.
The video opened with a short clip of Trump vowing to lower the cost of living for Americans beginning on the first day of his presidency.
"S*** that ain't true," all of the Democrats stated. "That's what you just saw."
"Since day one of Donald Trump's presidency, prices are up, not down. Inflation is getting worse, not better. The prices of groceries, gas, housing, eggs, they're all getting more expensive. Meanwhile, Donald Trump has done nothing to lower costs for you," they said with slight variations.
"Instead, he's pardoned violent criminals who beat police officers on January 6," the videos continued, cutting from the senators to show a clip from the protest at the Capitol.
"He's letting Elon Musk take a chainsaw to vital government programs. And then, even worse, giving him access to Americans' most sensitive data — Social Security numbers, tax returns, health care bills," the Democrats stated.
They accused Trump and Musk of firing "thousands of essential workers" and freezing funding for "vital programs."
"Why are they doing this? Trump, Musk, DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency] are taking these vital services away from you for one reason only: so they can give tax breaks to their billionaires' club," they added.
"Billionaires win; families lose. And that is the truth," the senators concluded.
Musk fired back at the Democratic senators for repeating the same lines.
"They are all actors reading a script," he wrote on X.
In a separate post, he called the senators "lazy propagandists."
"Who is writing the words that the puppets speak? That's the real question," Musk added.
Republican Senator Mike Lee (Utah) also responded to the controversy.
"It's almost like someone's telling Democrats what to say," Lee wrote.
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Americans have largely rejected the left’s silly, childish push for communist ideology over the past 15 years or so. But some of these folks refuse to move on.
In a recent post on X, Melanie D’Arrigo, the executive director of the Campaign for New York Health and vice president of legislation at the New York National Organization for Women, repeated several long-debunked talking points:
If we capped wealth at $999,999,999 we could invest almost $5.9 trillion into improving our country.
And if you’re upset at transferring wealth down, why are you ok with how we pass laws to transfer wealth up— from the working class to billionaires?
Billionaires shouldn’t exist.
Since this is the equivalent of a toddler’s rant, I thought I would provide a toddler’s guide to why billionaires should, in fact, exist.
Mommy, why are there billionaires?
The label of “billionaire” is nothing more than an accounting of the net worth that someone has. But most billionaires aren’t swimming around in a room full of gold coins like Scrooge McDuck (which would be impossible anyway). They have most of their net worth tied up in owning a valuable business.
Typically, billionaires have established businesses that employ other people and provide goods and services that others want. Because consumers find those goods and services worthwhile, the business becomes more valuable. Based on the value at any point in time, the founder or manager’s share of that business could be “worth” a billion dollars or more. If it stopped providing value, it could be worthless.
Why should you or anyone else get to decide that someone has 'too much' wealth?
Billionaires exist most of the time because they created a lot of value for others, as well as themselves.
But aren’t billionaires bad?
Creating value is never a bad thing. Generating jobs and providing essential goods and services play a crucial role — arguably more important than most of what the government does these days!
Why can’t we just take away their money?
Taking someone’s money away is theft. Theft is wrong and a violation of your property rights, honey. Someone can’t just come in here and say you have too many toys and take some of them away. One can’t say that your room is too big and others need shelter, so you have to let strangers sleep in your room.
As Thomas Sowell said, “I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.” It sounds like you are the one being greedy, sweetie!
But why can’t we just cap their money at $999,999,999?
You just made up that number. And the word you’re looking for is wealth. Why should you or anyone else get to decide that someone has “too much” wealth?
Also, incentives drive outcomes, so if you cap wealth, you limit the incentives for others to make investments, to innovate, and to provide important value to the world.
That money could help other people!
Wealth isn’t just other people’s money. In many cases, it isn’t money at all. Businesses provide value that benefits others.
More government funding hasn’t led to better results. Spending has increased over time, yet the only clear beneficiaries are government cronies!
America remains one of the most generous nations, donating more to charity than any other country in the world.
But it’s almost $6 trillion!
If you tried to take away billionaires' business stakes, the value of those businesses would go down, so you would never see the $6 trillion, and it would hurt the wealth of middle-class Americans whose pensions and 401Ks are invested in the stocks of those companies.
Also, the U.S. government spent almost $7 trillion last year, so taking that money wouldn’t fund the government for even a year, and then where would the government get money the next year?
Your arguments truly make no sense — which I guess is understandable since you are a toddler.
I don’t care! Billionaires shouldn’t exist!
Adults who use toddler logic shouldn’t exist, but here we are. Now, go eat your vegetables.
I hope this guide proves useful when Bernie Sanders, Robert Reich, Melanie D’Arrigo, or someone else presents a toddler-level argument about billionaires.
Making it clear which party opposes or is in favor of what is the only way to make these presidential speech moments still useful
The president pointed out Warren's support for the war with his long-time nickname referencing the senator's fake Indian identity.
Senate Dems are doing roughly the equivalent of those 'copy and paste this or something bad will happen to you' emails from middle school.
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