What Most Concerned Me About Trump's State of the Union

Feb 24, 2026; Washington, DC, USA; U.S. President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Tuesday. Mandatory Credit: Jessica Koscielniak-Pool Photo via Imagn Images

I thought about skipping President Trump’s State of the Union address, but out of a sense of civic duty—or perhaps misplaced hope—I watched it anyway. In what became the longest such address in U.S. history, Trump’s joint address to Congress devolved from political theater into vicious partisan baiting and derision.

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