Trump Dominates Unlike Anyone Since FDR
Democrats cannot take congressional victory for granted anymore.
Tonight, in his address to the failed Congress, President Donald Trump dominated his political opposition and rallied his fellow patriots like no president since Franklin Roosevelt.
There has never been a State of the Union address like it.
Declining the usual temptation to pretend at a unity in government that does not exist, Trump walked through a series of “70–30” and “80–20” issues—representing the portion of Americans who agree with him versus the portion who agree with the unpatriotic, woke Democrat opposition.
Trump repeatedly called on Democrats to stand in support of his common-sense and highly popular initiatives. When, invariably, they did not, he observed that “they’re crazy.”
Of course they are.
Trump touted:
An American government that benefits American citizens, not violent illegal aliens.
The deportation of illegals.
Stopping woke mutilation of minors to advance the transvestite agenda.
Requiring photo ID and proof of citizenship to vote.
The gold medal-winning American hockey team, which Democrats hate because its players are mostly white men, and because they were rooting for Canada.
Policies to reduce prices, including health care costs.
Reversing Biden’s hyperinflation, which eliminated 25% of people’s purchasing power and savings in four short years.
Protecting American manufacturing despite the wrong decisions of the six unpatriotic Supreme Court politician-justices.
Trump’s most successful foreign policy since the Reagan–Bush era (1981–1993).
Democrats sat on their hands for almost all of the speech. This included a group of Democratic women who wore all white. This was very appropriate: it evoked the Ku Klux Klan, the terror wing of the Democrat Party, and highlighted the 20th-century racism that Democrats have brought into the 21st century as part of their anti-white, anti-Asian, anti-male, anti-normal campaign—which also includes the Klan’s penchant for political violence, including murder.
Trump dominated his opposition unlike any president since the great Franklin Roosevelt—the New Yorker before Trump to rise to the presidency. The most obvious comparison is Roosevelt’s “Fala Speech,” included below.
If you’re interested in history or politics, it’s worth watching the portion of the speech below as Roosevelt delivered it. The text is also fun, but one benefits from FDR’s delivery:
These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my little dog, Fala. Well, of course, I don’t resent attacks, and my family doesn’t resent attacks.
But Fala does resent them.
You know, Fala is Scotch, and being a Scottie, as soon as he learned that the Republican fiction writers in Congress and out had concocted a story that I had left him behind on the Aleutian Islands and had sent a destroyer back to find him—at a cost to the taxpayers of two or three, or eight or twenty million dollars—his Scotch soul was furious.
He has not been the same dog since.
It was a moment of levity, but it was devastating, and it reminded Americans, as Roosevelt sought an unprecedented fourth presidential term (now unconstitutional) in 1944, that the old man still had it. He was a ruthless political street fighter covered with a thin gentleman’s veneer. The campaign kick-off helped propel Roosevelt to another victory and aided Democrats in preserving their nearly unprecedented margin of power in Congress.
Tonight’s performance raises the big question: Was this first salvo in the 2026 midterm elections decisive, or even just a preview of decisive action to come from Trump?
By all historical measures, Democrats should take control of the Republican-run House of Representatives this fall. It is the final midterm of a two-term president, Republicans have only a minuscule margin, prediction markets put Democrats far ahead, Trump’s economic surge is real but often not fully felt by voters for 1–2 years after it begins, and Republicans in Congress generally suck.
On the other hand, Republicans did not make big gains in 2024 in Democratic strongholds that would easily be reversed. Trump has expanded the Republican base in manner to Roosevelt’s expansion of the Democrat base. Democrats are clearly the party of political violence, illegals, transvestites, and wokeness. Bill Clinton bucked the midterm trend of losing seats in 1998, and George W. Bush followed suit in 2002.
Trump showed fellow Republicans tonight how to cream the Dems. If he—and they—continue to do so, Republicans may just run the board in November.
I hope and pray you are correct and he runs the board. "Democrats are clearly the party of political violence, illegals, transvestites, and wokeness." They are also the party of destroying social security, Medicare and our entire social safety net by spending into oblivion, while lying through their teeth and claiming they care about people. They want to see us at each other's throats fighting over the crumbs.
It sure looked like Trump was shaping the mid-term debate.