According to Financial Times columnist Ed Luce, there was one moment during Donald Trump’s long and lie-filled State of the Union address that will cause his WhiteAccording to Financial Times columnist Ed Luce, there was one moment during Donald Trump’s long and lie-filled State of the Union address that will cause his White

Trump speech moment that had his inner circle 'gnashing their teeth' singled out on MS NOW

2026/02/25 20:47
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According to Financial Times columnist Ed Luce, there was one moment during Donald Trump’s long and lie-filled State of the Union address that will cause his White House no small measure of problems as the president’s poll numbers are in freefall.

Appearing on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,“ the longtime journalist agreed with co-host Jonathan Lemire that Trump’s speech was “boring” but added that Trump’s comments about affordability was not what his inner circle wanted to hear coming out of his mouth.

“I don't think, you know, this is effective campaigning, although it is campaigning, was him rolling the word affordability around in his mouth, as if it's some very strange word that the Democrats have just learned, and that it isn't really a serious issue at all," he suggested to Lemire.

“I imagine Susie Wiles and others were gnashing their teeth as they watched that, because this was clearly supposed to be, at least in part, a speech that set up Republicans for the midterms as serious on questions of affordability,” he added. “And he didn't really do that. He told Americans that their prices are all falling. Don't believe your own lying eyes, etc. He at one point said that drug prices have dropped 100 percent, which would mean they're now zero.”

“So you know, I can't I can't get excited about this speech. But I'm and I guess the fact that we're so used to these torrents of lies and the whoppingness of these lies and that it's actually boring, does say something about us and about this president,” he wryly admitted.

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Political strategist James Carville delivered a brutal message to President Donald Trump after his State of the Union address on Tuesday, a deeply personal message that saw the veteran consultant accuse even Republicans of despising him.

“I have a personal message for Donald John Trump, and you sit still you son of a b---- when I’m telling you this because I’m gonna tell you right where you are, you fat, sorry sack of s---: people hate you,” Carville said in a video message shared on Tuesday by ex-NBC executive Mike Sington, who called Carville’s message “brutal.”

“I’m not just saying this because I don’t like you, I’m saying this because I’m telling you what’s happening to you right now. First of all, everybody is stabbing you in the back; you can trust no one.”

Carville pointed to the recent leaks from the Pentagon that revealed some of Trump’s options on striking Iran, and comments from his own White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, who said Trump “has an alcoholic’s personality” as some examples of his own administration disliking him. He said members of Congress – even Republicans – “can’t stand you” and that “they hate you.”

Carville also pointed to Trump’s record-low favorability among Americans, with his popularity on Tuesday at its lowest level since retaking office.

“You are the most unpopular president at this point in your term that we’ve ever had,” Carville said. “They don’t like you – you understand that? They don’t like the way you smell, they don’t like the way you look, they don’t like your fat stomach, they don’t like your stupid comb-over… they just don’t like you!”

And, while Trump may not be on the ballot in the upcoming midterm elections, Carville put the president on notice that his unpopularity would drag down his entire party come November.

“You know how miserable you’re gonna be in November, You know how f------ miserable you are when tens of millions of American people get a chance to tell you exactly what they think of you?” Carville said.

“Oh, and they gonna do it! And there’s no silent people out there for you – the only thing you’ve got is a silent-but-deadly fart, that’s about all you’re good for.”

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President Donald Trump did not provide Republicans with a message to rally around, according to an analyst on "CNN This Morning."

The 79-year-old president spoke Tuesday for a record one hour and 47 minutes, where he boasted of an economic "turnaround for the ages" and claimed to be making deals to benefit all Americans, but CNN's Edward-Isaac Dovere said he did not lay out much of an agenda for GOP candidates.

"I think that the question here for the Republicans in the audience is what the president gave them to run on this year, in this midterm year," Dovere said. "It was a speech that was very much about him and his accomplishments and what he's done, and when you have Democrats who are both attacking what he's done and trying to say that the Republicans in Congress are just a rubber stamp on him, they are still looking for what that agenda would be, to say this is what we're going to keep doing or what we're going to do now, rather than what we're going."

Trump lambasted Democrats for opposing his mass deportation campaign but conspicuously did not address the controversial specifics of that agenda, including the Immigration and Customs Enforcement occupations of Democratic-led states and cities, host Audie Cornish pointed out.

"He did not address ICE, did not address DHS, did not address these things that are actually like lots of people, like, hey, give me an answer on this," she said. "Like, where do you stand on this conceptually? Do you think it's something that is going to, again, Republicans on the trail are going to have to answer for?"

Republican strategist Bryan Lanza, who was a senior adviser to Trump's 2024 campaign, said those issues were just a matter of framing, but Cornish challenged him to explain how GOP candidates would do that.

"That's why I'm asking what's the framing?" Cornish said. "I think the framing so far is we've done a lot to help with the border, and they've done nothing. But he's not talking about what happened on the way to accomplishing that."

Lanza argued that voters didn't care about the process.

"Well, I don't think he has to," he said. "I mean, at the end of the day the voters are going to look at the end result voters. What we've learned in politics, at least over my 20 years, is voters don't care about process, they care about results, and so the process that you're seeing take place is great for TV clicks and great for for newspaper articles. But voters ultimately decide was he was he successful."

Dovere said the polling so far shows that voters do not believe Trump's second presidency has been successful.

"At least so far, that's not what we're seeing from the reactions and the polls and other things over the last couple of months where people are saying, that a majority of them saying that they agree that there is a problem with immigration, the border, they they are still support for president trump doing things about it," Dovere said. "But they have consistently said what happened in Minneapolis, not like this, essentially, right, and the president didn't give it like he was saying. There was no acknowledgment, no acknowledgment, there was nothing to address that, to say, okay this is how that happened, and this is what's going to happen differently going forward."

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Donald Trump's record-long State of the Union address got about as low of marks as possible from MS NOW’s Jonathan Lemire who claimed he couldn’t see it changing one person’s mind about the president’s disastrous second term -- according to recent polls.

Worse still, he added, the entire speech was a boring drag.

With the entire “Morning Joe” panel pouncing on Trump’s “serial lying,” Lemire claimed he heard nothing that he didn’t hear from the president’s rambling, almost daily, Oval Office appearances.

After observing, “Last night was President Trump's biggest audience he will see all year, a national audience. Millions of people watched and he came into last night reeling,” he added, “I can't imagine he changed a single mind last night. I can't imagine he won over a single voter last night and that's bad for the Republicans who will be on the ballot this November who have to defend his policies.”

“And I was also just struck, frankly, it's pretty boring,” he reported. “Yes, it had a couple nice moments of patriotism; he saluted the men's [Olympic] hockey team. He singled out a few Americans who deserve to be recognized for their heroism at home or abroad. But it felt like a campaign speech. It felt like more of the same.”

“Like, yes, he was loud. Yes, he, you know, was animated. I don't know, though that it's going to change the trajectory of his presidency one bit,” he predicted.

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