America: the state of the union address…

RosiesMawagain

Thanks OP, as the saying goes, I’ll take a rain check.

I won't bother with the rain check!

MayBee70

Anyone else staying up to watch this? They keep saying that many people throughout the world will be watching is because Trump is ‘an entertainer’ and they want to be entertained by him. Do they really believe this?

Who calls Trump an entertainer?

I can assure you this is not a word used of him in Denmark.

I didn't hear his speech, as I had no intention of listing to him or any other politician in the middle of the night!

I relied on the television news broadcast in the morning to give the important points of his speech, which it did.

Unfortunately, it is in our own best interests to listen to the nonsense Trump spouts as he very unfortunately ot my mind is the president of the USA, and thus capable of affecting all our lives to a lesser or larger extent.

Oh, Petra, thank you for this. It made me laugh out loud.
I did wonder, though, as a supporter of Amnesty, whether this might count as " severe and unusual punishment"..

Absolutely

This sums up what many are feeling Re The Speach.

www.facebook.com/reel/688654314270577

Watched Sir Gareth Edwards and his wife on BBC4 this evening.

Those were the days! Gareth, Barry John, JPR Williams et al

Although England could buck up but they're not as dismal as Wales.

But Wales very nearly beat Scotland last weekend who had walked all over England the week before..

It's a funny old game...

MaizieD

imaround

I don't want to start another post, but I saw an image of Mike Tindall wearing a Make England Great Again red hat.

Please tell me this is a joke making fun of America.

It was a 'Make England Great Again' hat, probably in reference to the England Rugby team's very poor performances in the 6 Nations Cup over the past couple of weeks.

Possibly, though I hope not, it might have been in support of our right wing Reform party ( or even, heaven help us, to the even more right wing Restore party)

In the first instance it would be a jokey reference to MAGA hats

In the second,

I'm sure it would be tongue-in-cheek and in reference to the rugby.
He might have politial views but would surely not display them so overtly?

It's not working anyway, Mike! Although England could buck up but they're not as dismal as Wales.

NYT reporting that an Epstein file that has details of a woman’s accusation of Trumps abuse has disappeared.

I'd say, though, that even though Tindall is a 'commoner' his background is solid middle class, private school education. This 'type' very often is right wing...

I didn't want to believe it, so I am glad it has a reason. Makes sense.

imaround

I don't want to start another post, but I saw an image of Mike Tindall wearing a Make England Great Again red hat.

Please tell me this is a joke making fun of America.

It was a 'Make England Great Again' hat, probably in reference to the England Rugby team's very poor performances in the 6 Nations Cup over the past couple of weeks.

Possibly, though I hope not, it might have been in support of our right wing Reform party ( or even, heaven help us, to the even more right wing Restore party)

In the first instance it would be a jokey reference to MAGA hats

In the second,

I don't want to start another post, but I saw an image of Mike Tindall wearing a Make England Great Again red hat.

Please tell me this is a joke making fun of America.

Thanks Maizie.

This is what I was waiting for. Bow we don't have to watch the buffoon.

Fact checks are in.

edition.cnn.com/interactive/2026/02/politics/donald-trump-sotu-address-vis/

Maremia

Listened to the BBC fact checking on the News this morning.
Were any of the Supreme Court Judges in attendance?

Yes, four of them.

I wasn't sleeping well last night so I was browsing the Bluesky feed of comments on the SOTU speech. Trump shook hands with Judge Roberts who shut his eyes and grimaced during the handshake..

Senator Green was escorted out because he held up a sign saying that 'black people aren't apes'..

Lots of comments asking why Democrat senators weren't walking out.

Lots of disgust that the USA men's ice hockey team had turned up when the women's team had declined Trump's invitation to attend...

I watched the first hour (actually about 40 minutes as he was late, as usual) pre-recorded. Usual rubbish but slightly less incoherent. The Republicans were on springs. Every sentence a standing ovation (although I noticed many getting slower bouncing up as they tired.) The Democrats sat there in stony silence except for a slight acknowledgement when Trump accidentally said something sensible. It took me about 15 minutes to watch as I fast forwarded through the Ovations. A lot of noise, little content.

I shall skim through the second hour later, maybe.

Listened to the BBC fact checking on the News this morning.
Were any of the Supreme Court Judges in attendance?

Maremia

Good results imaround

Ditto 👍

Good results imaround

Chocolatelovinggran

Excellent summary, Allira.
I suspect that, at school, you were very good at the activity known as " precis".

😁

How can anybody talk such an infinite deal of nothing for two hours!
He needs to take up another hobby, perhaps sky diving, sans parachute.

Does Trump really believe his own lies. The man is deluded.

Excellent summary, Allira.
I suspect that, at school, you were very good at the activity known as " precis".

Two hours? Why would I waste two hours of my life listening to that?

Two seconds is enough to say "The Union is in a state".