On Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump delivered the longest State of the Union deal with in U.S. historical past, at one hour and 48 minutes, which signifies one factor: The president was determined to persuade Americans to like him, and switch across the abysmal poll numbers he has suffered for practically the whole thing of his second time period to date.
The downside with Trump is that he doesn’t perceive that, particularly with regards to him, much less is extra.
If Trump needed folks to see him as a greater, extra dignified president, and a greater, much less deplorable human being, he wanted to present us much less barely coherent rambling, much less outward bigotry and denigration of total non-white ethnic teams, much less of his drained blaming of his predecessors for all of his failings, and fewer simply debunked lies. Instead, he gave us extra — an hour and 48 minutes of extra of the identical outdated mendacity, bigoted, perpetually-aggrieved President Donald Trump.
Let’s begin with the half the place Trump circles again to the years-old fraud scandal in Minnesota as an excuse to renew spreading hate speech behind a podium about your complete Somali group in Minnesota and throughout the globe.
“When it involves the corruption that’s plundering — actually, it’s plundering America — there’s been no extra beautiful instance than Minnesota, the place members of the Somali group have pillaged an estimated $19 billion from the American taxpayer,” Trump claimed, prompting Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar — whom Trump has attacked quite a few instances, often just for being of Somali descent — to shout, “That’s a lie — you’re mendacity!”
Undeterred, Trump simply saved on mendacity and being an absolute bigot.
“The Somali pirates who ransacked Minnesota remind us that there are massive elements of the world the place bribery, corruption, and lawlessness are the norm, not the exception,” Trump continued. “Importing these cultures by immigration and open borders brings us issues proper right here, to the united statesA., and it’s the American individuals who pay the worth…”
So, first, let’s begin with the actual fact verify on the fraud case in Minnesota.
From CBS News:
President Trump’s “estimated $19 billion {dollars}” determine refers back to the roughly $18 billion in federal funds that supported over a dozen state-run packages in Minnesota since 2018.
The actual extent of the fraud and losses remains to be being investigated. In December 2025, a prime prosecutor suggested the overall quantity of fraud might be $9 billion or extra.
More than 90% of the folks charged in main fraud instances introduced earlier than December 2025 have been of Somali descent, in response to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Minnesota. But the variety of folks of Somali descent charged, 82 individuals, is a small fraction of the Somali group throughout the state. Census Bureau data reveals that there are greater than 107,000 individuals who determine as Somali within the state.
Trump didn’t simply, once again, disparage 107,000 Somali residents over what 82 of them have been charged for doing — whereas fully ignoring the truth that a white American lady, Aimee Bock, was named by the federal government because the mastermind behind the fraud scheme — he additionally disparaged Somalis in all places, by generalizing them as “pirates,” invoking the scourge of Somali piracy that has largely occurred off the coast of Somalia.
Trump additionally took the chance to launch right into a white nationalist rant about “cultures” — a transparent reference to Black and brown international cultures, as he has made it abundantly clear that white immigrants should not his goal — being imported into the U.S. and altering the material of this nice, white nation. (He didn’t say all that in so many phrases, however since we’re all effectively accustomed to the “tradition” of whiteness, we all know a watered-down white supremacist speech after we hear one.)
Trump additionally introduced that he had appointed Vice President JD Vance to move the investigation of Somali fraud in Minnesota — which had already been thoroughly investigated since 2021 — as a result of who higher to move a racist, largely political witch hunt towards a complete ethnic group than the man who led a racist, propaganda-reliant witch hunt against the entire Haitian community by selling lies about Haitian folks abducting and consuming pets in Ohio?
Early on throughout Trump’s speech, Democratic Rep. Al Green was faraway from the auditorium for holding up an indication that learn, “Black folks aren’t apes,” a reference to Trump posting an AI-generated image of Barack and Michelle Obama depicted as apes, which resulted in him spending a few weeks defending himself towards allegation of anti-Black racism by parading around all of the Black friends he pretends to have.
In hindsight, it appears sort of pointless to toss Green out only for displaying a reminder that Trump is racist, if the president was simply going to go on to ship a speech that serves as a reminder that Trump is racist.
Anyway, when Trump wasn’t utilizing his time on stage to be the outdated, white bigot he demonstrably is, he was keeping fact-checkers busy by perpetuating his regular lies about Democrats dishonest in elections, him saving the U.S. from violent crime that had already been trending downwards for decades, the wars he supposedly ended, costs supposedly happening in U.S. grocery shops and gasoline stations, and his tariffs — most of which have been struck down by the Supreme Court last week — bringing prosperity to the U.S. by bringing in income, lying about the amount of revenue they brought in, and omitting the evident indisputable fact that what income they did herald largely got here out of the pockets of the American shopper.
Again, it was all simply extra of the identical outdated Trump, just for one hour and 48 minutes, this time.
Sad.
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