The Signal Sitdown

“America is back,” President Donald Trump declared in his Tuesday address to Congress, making no bones about connecting what he sees as the imminent American revival to his electoral victory in November and the accomplishments of his first six weeks in office.

The president’s triumphant tone, and Democrats’ reactions to it, made Democrats look “like absolute clowns,” Daily Caller Senior Editor Amber Duke told me in this week’s episode of “The Signal Sitdown.”

Since their loss in November, Democrats claim to be doing a lot of soul searching, but apparently without much success, given that Democrats in Congress refused to even stand for the possibility of an American “golden age” under Trump, much less stand for families of migrant crime victims or a child on his way to beating brain cancer.

Democrats are adrift: The American people see it, and the president seems to delight in it. For Duke, “there were two things that Trump did that I thought were incredibly effective.”

“The first,” Duke said, “was listing specific accomplishments from the administration” just six weeks into Trump’s second term. “Typically, the president comes in the first year, they give this address, they're talking about the things that are wrong with the country, and what they're going to do throughout their administration to fix it.

“Well, Trump's already been fixing it. He's already accomplished a lot in his first six weeks, so it sounded like the type of speech that you would hear in year two, year three, even year four,” Duke explained.

Trump brought the receipts, too. Trump “back[ed] it up with data,” Duke said, particularly when it came to “examples of government waste, fraud, and abuse that DOGE has uncovered,” and issues of border security.

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