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(117 posts)Wife and I went to watch our Cowboys beat West Virginia in basketball.
Trueblue1968
(19,190 posts)Scrivener7
(59,171 posts)Glorfindel
(10,173 posts)CTyankee
(68,025 posts)sop
(18,174 posts)Emile
(41,707 posts)blowing smoke out his ass for two hours.
Wuddles440
(2,048 posts)jonstl08
(562 posts)Was supposed to be off volunteered to work the night shift at the tax office so to avoid the speech.
newdeal2
(5,158 posts)I looked through a live blog and DU while watching basketball. Got the gist of it: lots of lies and self-promotion
chicoescuela
(2,921 posts)The Blue Flower
(6,438 posts)Besides, I knew it would be a N. Korea kind of audience and I couldn't stomach it.
BonnieJW
(3,106 posts)Sooooo much better than watching a lying demented pedophile
bagimin
(1,689 posts)Oh dear lordy.
RainCaster
(13,565 posts)Life is too precious to waste watching an idiot embarrassing himself.
twodogsbarking
(18,241 posts)The Wizard
(13,660 posts)to change the channel when I hear his voice or see his face. He gives this advice to all patients being treated for hypertension.
Attilatheblond
(8,599 posts)DeeDeeNY
(3,948 posts)Watching that speech would be hazardous to my health.
Pepsidog
(6,361 posts)my noise canceling headphones so my head wouldnt explode hearing his whiney voice spout lie after lie.
Auggie
(33,040 posts)PCIntern
(28,165 posts)Cant look at him for any length of time. Never could even in the 1980s.
BumRushDaShow
(168,012 posts)but normally keep the radio on our local news station overnight, with volume down real low. Fell asleep right before he even started but then woke up around 10:24 pm to hear his nightmarish voice rambling on and exclaimed "OMFG he's still going!", immediately reached over, turned the radio off, and went back to sleep.
mwooldri
(10,804 posts)I have to be up at 3am for work. So bed early. Wifey sadly has taken to watching Fox News Lite (aka NewsNation) for Cuomo and somehow tolerates the others (ex Fox News "hosts"
) being on (probably cos she's actually asleep by the time Cuomo is finished). To counter this I have white noise playing in my Bluetooth sleep mask. That man doesn't stand a chance.
FakeNoose
(41,073 posts)... "If there's nothing on TV, read a good book!" And that's what I did.
BumRushDaShow
(168,012 posts)and had started it when I was on jury duty last fall and need to get back to it! Sorkin was able to make a gripping literary masterpiece out of a historic event.
dem4decades
(13,932 posts)A-Schwarzenegger
(15,801 posts)yaesu
(9,184 posts)Skipped Hitlers liefest.
Homoudont
(108 posts)I don't get rabbit ears because I am too far from a metro area. I only subscribe to a streaming service (hulu) 6 months a year because all I watch is football. But even if I did have access to watch it I wouldn't because I have better things to do then listen to Trump. Better things like literally anything.
lark
(26,021 posts)First time ever a SOTU wasn't on in our house. I finally convinced him not to watch it - yay~~ He hates krasnov, but always felt he should watch so he'd know for himself. Now, he's realized it's a bad use of time and not doing it was so much better!
DFW
(59,992 posts)Listening to one and a half hours of Trump is not one of them.
CapnSteve
(397 posts)nt
Ocelot II
(130,015 posts)I'm old. My time is limited and I'm not spending any more of it than absolutely necessary listening to or watching that festering fat heap of evil.
Botany
(76,916 posts)Whomever came up with it needs a Noble Prize, the Heisman Trophy, and the Pulitzer Prize too.
Diamond_Dog
(40,237 posts)I also cannot stomach that lying POS so, no, I did not watch it.
Ritabert
(2,244 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(177,914 posts)I watched John Oliver and 4 episodes of Jeopardy
Trueblue Texan
(4,317 posts)Wanted to keep my dinner down.
C_U_L8R
(49,217 posts)Skipped the speech and judging from the lack of online reaction, the whole thing looks like it was a total bore for republicans and democrats alike. Trump is sundowning.
Prof. Toru Tanaka
(2,919 posts)I was happy to miss that two hour barrage of bullshit.
Conjuay
(3,023 posts)Which was quite a strange movie.
Not as strange as trump, but still a strange movie.
Texin
(2,849 posts)propaganda harangue.
Joinfortmill
(20,773 posts)ProfessorGAC
(76,373 posts)No interest in hearing him lie.
GiqueCee
(3,773 posts)... someone scraped the worst of humanity's instincts off the floor of a gas station bathroom, stuffed it into a rancid sausage skin, and taught it to make noises with its face.*
Why would anyone willingly subject themselves to such embarrassment?
(*Paraphrasing a colorful description I saw here some years ago)
Klondike Kat
(932 posts)It would take an astronomical amount of cash for me to listen to him (hey, a guy has to pay his utility bill somehow).
Ilsa
(64,151 posts)Then I watched some recorded programs. I can't listen to his lies. I predicted a two hour speech and was certainly close enough.
Yonnie3
(19,339 posts)I must have missed it. I had absolutely nothing to do.
I am just lucky I guess.
lamp_shade
(15,436 posts)obnoxiousdrunk
(3,111 posts)wendyb-NC
(4,655 posts)I can't stand to hear his voice, let alone look at him for 2 seconds. I'm glad that didn't.
Dave Id
(265 posts)I sure as hell didn't miss it. Fuck Trump and anyone who voted for the pedophile rapist.
ChicagoTeamster
(707 posts)Last edited Wed Feb 25, 2026, 09:58 AM - Edit history (2)
Heard about the black people arent monkeys sign. Who was the girl that Trump said her teachers were trying to turn her trans and when Trump had her family stand up she clapped with her two fingers. She wasn't taken away, she willingly ran away from home to escape them because they denied her care and probably worse.
And, that's a private family matter. I'm sure the girl would have preferred to maintain her privacy like most teenagers but her parents obviously liked basking in the MAGA glow.
Her father gave her a dirty look. It was obviously all staged. She should have yelled out "what are you going to do? Beat me like you do at home?". Her parents wanted her to lie. So even if her lie wasn't true, neither was their BS for Trump.
And there was a guy standing next to her father who was also scowling at her. Was that their lying pastor?
generalbetrayus
(1,686 posts)accept her and would never do anything like that to her. I could tell the girl wanted to be anywhere else but there.
ChicagoTeamster
(707 posts)But parents who weren't decent enough to consider her physical and mental health wouldn't care about using her as a prop either.
AverageOldGuy
(3,648 posts)Prairie_Seagull
(4,642 posts)Damn, missed it.
haha
Clouds Passing
(7,700 posts)Martin Eden
(15,507 posts)And if there wasn't "State of the Swamp" or "The People's State of the Union" I would not have subjected myself to the lies of that orange slug, nor the standing ovations of his corrupt minions.
Botany
(76,916 posts)Last edited Wed Feb 25, 2026, 10:37 AM - Edit history (1)
. whose bones were discovered in a cave in S. Africa in 2013. They were about half the size of us
but had complex behaviors such as burying their dead. The cave had a very small opening so the
paleontologist had to hire women who were small enough, were brave enough to crawl down and then
climb back up a very tight opening to the burial chamber, and they had to know science along with
how to excavate the bones too.
Just the thought of crawling into that cave gave me chills.

https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/unknown-cave-of-bones-trailer
UpInArms
(54,625 posts)nm
Greybnk48
(10,706 posts)I can't listen to that oily-voiced liar any more.
catbyte
(38,957 posts)
Marthe48
(22,949 posts)I know he's a liar and a thief. I wouldn't let someone like that in my house and if I were on the street and saw him approaching, I'd cross to the other side. He isn't part of my real life. I can be aware and active in politics and live a life of service without recognizing his existence or giving him oxygen.
SergeStorms
(20,318 posts)I hope it went well.
MiHale
(12,861 posts)SouthBayDem
(33,230 posts)Omnipresent
(7,376 posts)I need to be aware of everything this modern day Hitler has to say.
He pretty much lied and exaggerated everything to make himself look good and Democrats look bad.
tonekat
(2,498 posts)I avoided the late nite shows too, just to not have to hear about the goddamn moron. I may watch them later today.
Montauk6
(9,337 posts)Oh wait! Is it a new series on Gas Station TV? Nah, I have a hybrid so haven't been to pump as much.
But seriously, no I did skip it. I can't stand the guy, moreover, if you've seen one speech, you've seen them all. Whoever his speechwriter is has the cushiest job in the world.
I may watch Reese Waters or Destiny's watchalongs on YouTube but the whole thing organically?? Nah, fam, I'm good.
angrychair
(12,031 posts)And never will.
TBF
(36,204 posts)release the unredacted epstein files - in their entirely
EuterpeThelo
(292 posts)Was happy to see so many of our Dem lawmakers participate.
BarbD
(1,390 posts)So said Senator Chris Murphy who spoke at the Peoples State of the Union sponsored by Move-On and Meidas Touch Network.
MaineNative
(87 posts)sticking hot pokers in my eyes.
BattleRow
(2,197 posts)Botany
(76,916 posts)The UNs Human Rights Commission are now talking about the Trump/Epstein/Putin International
Child sex trafficking ring as a crime against humanity and femicide (killing women).
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=21041741
state of stupid
(144 posts)MontanaMama
(24,690 posts)What would be the point?
Delmette2.0
(4,484 posts)LittleGirl
(8,994 posts)Much less his lies and boasting.
I watched Leanne Morgan on Netflix. She joked about mens silly habits and menopause. Topics Im willing to laugh about. I wont watch him and even clips of him, I mute.
City Lights
(25,598 posts)No amount of money could have persuaded me to watch that shitshow.
WestMichRad
(3,123 posts)Not gonna waste my time on that blithering idiot.
democrank
(12,478 posts)Why listen to a Miller-driven lie-a-thon?
Jilly_in_VA
(14,226 posts)And I second everything else that was said here.
Wednesdays
(22,213 posts)cate94
(3,077 posts)I cant look at his face, much less listen to his jibberish.
Fil1957
(647 posts)ChazInAz
(3,009 posts)I'd rather have a high colonic enema or a colonoscopy sans anesthesia.
Nixie
(17,973 posts)the WWE type presentation that this evil clown has turned our politics into. Seeing JD and Mike Johnson smirking in the background. What a horrible shame.
AllaN01Bear
(29,109 posts)Playingmantis
(593 posts)Why listen to hours of self praise, lies and malicious attacks.
TommieMommy
(2,784 posts)Danmel
(5,750 posts)Than listen to him.
MurrayDelph
(5,735 posts)Didn't watch it, didn't miss it.
Rebl2
(17,598 posts)I watch a man that (has 34 felony convictions) stands up there telling multiple lies and watch people cheering for that. No thanks.
DinahMoeHum
(23,505 posts)then watched the Lincoln Project's take on the fuckery at the Capitol
Six117
(319 posts)All the lying makes my teeth itch.
DownriverDem
(7,003 posts)the People's SOTU speeches in front of the Capitol. The Dems were there with their guests.
bif
(26,857 posts)MineralMan
(151,012 posts)Then, I turned the radio off, rolled over in bed, and went to sleep.
My wife, on the other hand, watched the entire thing on MSNOW. This morning, she said, "I should have done what you did."
Bobstandard
(2,231 posts)Wolf Frankula
(3,827 posts)fart through his mouth. NBA games are better.
cab67
(3,674 posts)Roc2020
(1,768 posts)and that was between changing channels. 5 seconds I can never get back. ugh disgusting!!!
not present
Quiet Em
(2,726 posts)I did not waste my time listening to a con artist lie for two hours.
BigmanPigman
(54,931 posts)It's better for my mental health.
RANDYWILDMAN
(3,148 posts)I missed it, I don think I missed a thing
colorado_ufo
(6,216 posts)Husband watched it. I woke up for a few seconds now and then to catch things like "blood spurting" and tariffs and fell back to sleep.
Does that count for awake or skipped it?
LAS14
(15,481 posts)Mopar151
(10,347 posts)The story grows ever more complex....
There are staff archaeologists now, and an onsite lab.
byronius
(7,949 posts)Chemical Bill
(3,144 posts)before TSF says anything honest or constructive.
IbogaProject
(5,756 posts)I didnt "miss" it I just prefer to read transcripts or in this case read unbiased or foreign fact checks.
Dulcinea
(9,939 posts)I gave myself a facial & read a book. I knew if I watched it, I'd get mad & yell at the TV like my father used to. Did I miss anything?
mac56
(17,817 posts)NewLarry
(145 posts)No need to sit through more.
virgdem
(2,307 posts)waste of space.
greatauntoftriplets
(178,793 posts)No way was I watching that lie fest.
Tree Lady
(13,189 posts)Then continued series I am watching.
kentuck
(115,340 posts)Much more interesting.
LogDog75
(1,213 posts)I can't stand listening to someone who has trouble putting a lucid, complete sentence together. Also, the way he talks is like a used car salesman trying to sell a used car to a used car salesman.
emmybee43
(6 posts)First three episodes of season two dropped on hulu.
allegorical oracle
(6,375 posts)forever-liar on video clips today. So, for me it was "Gaslight" vs. being gaslighted in real time.
Ol Janx Spirit
(903 posts)llmart
(17,498 posts)B.See
(8,174 posts)Buddyzbuddy
(2,399 posts)vapor2
(4,251 posts)Callie1979
(1,243 posts)Felicita
(77 posts)and the mayors of Minneapolis and Chicago at one of the alternative venues, "The State of the Swamp". All gave excellent speeches.
mike_c
(36,990 posts)...until about midnight. I checked DU for commentary and was surprised at how little there was.
mgardener
(2,324 posts)Needed a scrubbing.
samsingh
(18,373 posts)Warren_Pointe
(339 posts)Hard Pass.
charliea
(326 posts)I was assembling my new desktop computer, for Linux of course...
Figarosmom
(11,160 posts)Talitha
(7,864 posts)Got the AP's transcript this morning, though - will read later.
Colorado Liberal
(520 posts)I've never been so happy to have to work late....
CousinIT
(12,430 posts)And I fell asleep about 2 hours into it! When ya ass gets old, that's what happens.
Had I listened to the lying PedoFelon, I'd have been up all night mad as hell at his sociopathic goddamned lies about everything.
I think I made the right choice for my health and sanity.
llmart
(17,498 posts)I don't have enough years left on this earth to waste a millisecond on the lying pedophile.
NNadir
(37,718 posts)In Lieu: No Prisoner Be.
pat_k
(12,904 posts)For my health and sanity I must minimize exposure and do my best to avoid images and clips. It's bad enough when I subject myself to skimming transcripts. Actually hearing that voice?? I can't afford the nightmares.
FireUpChips10
(24,020 posts)mdbl
(8,433 posts)I watch what he does. His comments and actions prove his verbiage means nothing. Why waste time listening to it.
Sogo
(7,114 posts)kimbutgar
(27,074 posts)But at one point they showed the speech in the corner of their event with subtitles and it made no sense.
EndlessMaze
(79 posts)I had to turn it off (I think) when he yelled at the Democrats for not standing up for his lie about protecting US citizens not illegal aliens. Regardless, I could only take an hour of his bullshit.
MuirHero
(128 posts)I watched "State of the Swamp" on Defiance.com that was emceed by Miles Taylor.
Beacool
(30,512 posts)Why was there any reason to listen to his self-aggrandizing proclamations, exaggerations, fantasies, and outright lies? Trump has always been the same. A bad seed who bullied others since early childhood, a cruel man who relishes belittling and mocking others to hide his insecurities and inadequacies. I can't find one redeeming quality in the morally bankrupt lowlife.
Jimmy76
(21 posts)I told by wife I would need money to watch, $10 per minute, nobody went for it though, huh.......
maspaha
(728 posts)DiverDave
(5,234 posts)I dislike his speaking style.
And I smoked some home grown and read my book.
generalbetrayus
(1,686 posts)when we couldn't take it anymore. She switched the TV to the Utah - CU women's basketball game. Sadly, our beloved women Buffs lost a close one. Last night was an all-around suck.
Flash953
(139 posts)Theres a point when the outrage about all the different things going on becomes too much. I trust the BBC , and Freedom now to give me information with integrity.
carpetbagger
(5,456 posts)I checked the NBC and CBC websites before bed to see if there was anything of substance.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(134,443 posts)I'd rather watch Fantasy Island reruns.
MustLoveBeagles
(15,550 posts)I went to a movie 🍿🎥. On the way back I heard about a minute on Serius. That was all I could manage.
Bread and Circuses
(1,802 posts)Explanation
I come to DU for support and read how others like me are processing this coup.
I have accepted that we are now in survival mode as fascism has taken over. I have ZERO expectations that any politicians can stop this, Republican voters are content because they simply are filled with hate and anger. They dont care about the rape, cruelty lies and the consequences to the economy or our diplomatic and security relationships.
I expect this country to become worse.
Ill continue to organize, rally, vote, donate, and be VERY active as I have been. Find your tribe and resist!
BHDem53
(1,128 posts)Skittles
(170,618 posts)he makes me sick
stillspkg
(185 posts)I had it on with the sound muted while I listened to the alternative rally on YouTube. It was a great soundtrack for watching the liars.
regnaD kciN
(27,568 posts)Sweet Rosie Red
(53 posts)I dont have enough years left in my life to deal with 2 faced lying idiots!
Wonder Why
(6,741 posts)vapor2
(4,251 posts)Rob H.
(5,808 posts)He came across as an even bigger nut job when he was yelling into his microphone about, "Please, please, please, Mister President, were winning too much. We cant take it anymore.
I had to laugh when he pointed to the Democrats and said, "Those people are crazy!" because they weren't sufficiently obsequious for his taste. He was just so angry and you could tell he was losing his temper.
BlueKentuckyGirl
(541 posts)Had a college basketball game on the TV and streamed Defiance.org on the computer.
h2ebits
(993 posts)Been avoiding him speaking since the beginning and just catch-up later from people who listen and report to us later.
Martin68
(27,451 posts)Joinfortmill
(20,773 posts)Progressive dog
(7,595 posts)After two short clips on Morning Joe, I turned the TV off.
oldinmtdem92
(128 posts)cant stand to watch that pos speak, burns my fucking ears ,.
appleannie1
(5,441 posts)Even with meds, hearing him raises it into the danger zone.
CozyMystery
(718 posts)Can't stand to hear his voice, and from experience, I know I won't like what he says.
PJMcK
(24,968 posts)We have guests arriving tomorrow so I cleaned the bathrooms and set up the guest room.
Time well spent.
Fuck Trump.
JBTaurus83
(1,046 posts)If they are over 30 seconds.
spooky3
(38,489 posts)But it really deeply upset my mother, and she doesnt even need that.
I wish she wouldnt know watched it and I wish none of our legislators attended. I cant imagine how much it hurts their hearts. They just got used and it makes me sad for them and for the whole country because that footage will be used against us and didnt have to happen.
I think were under value generally how incredibly valiant courageous and brilliant so many of our legislators are. Im worried for them. And of course for us.
Aussie105
(7,767 posts)America will be so busy undoing the cloud of insanity he radiates from every cell of his decaying mind and body.
Once he is gone.
Didn't try to tap into any US internet streaming to watch any of it, but I'm sure there were a few media streaming all of it.
Why didn't I watch?
I'm starting the believe that what he has is contagious!
Saw some coverage, and the rapture on some of the audience faces reminded me of brainwashed cult followers.
BBC did a bit of fact checking on gas prices, but I'm still looking for more in-depth fact checking from non-US media.
Blumancru
(248 posts)The one where Moes head gets stuck in a pipe and Larry and Curly have to twist him out.
Much better to watch than the Stooging going on during the State of Delusion Address.
Sancho
(9,197 posts)Watched Netflix.
hibbing
(10,562 posts)I used to enjoy watching them regardless of who was president. I certainly yelled at the tv during the lies of Reagan, Bush and Bush. I lasted about 3 minutes last night. The asshole ruins everything as we all know.
PatrickforB
(15,398 posts)We also thought Abigail Spanberger's rebuttal speech was very well done. She is really good, and an effective communicator. Unlike fucking Trump. I mean, he just stood there and LIED. The whole time. He just stood there and lied.
indigoth
(197 posts)Already knew everything hed say would be a lie.
love_katz
(3,232 posts)I watched the Alternative SOTU held by the Democrats in front of the Capitol.
I mainly wanted to boost their watched ratings, and reduce watched ratings for the official shit show inside the Capitol.
FTDJT. 8647.
YoshidaYui
(45,285 posts)That smug son of a bitch deserves everything that is coming to him including life in PRISON
waterwatcher123
(500 posts)My husband started watching a clip on his phone and I started yelling at the orange 🍊 fucker so he stopped the video before I scared our feline babies.
Faux pas
(16,261 posts)and am proud I did. It's shitty enough that we have hear about him all day every fricking day.
kerry-is-my-prez
(10,249 posts)iemanja
(57,707 posts)I never watch him. I see no reason to submit myself to watching a child rapist lie for two hours.
Timewas
(2,705 posts)I have never listened to any "state of the union" address by anyone... I can find out all I need to know afterwards....The las major speech I listened to was Obamas keynote address to the 2004 Dem. convention in Chicago and I told my wife afterwards the there was the man that would be our first black president..
I couldn't stomach it, so I watched a James Bond movie instead.
BunnyMcGee
(482 posts)I'd rather read the text with remarks, than listen to that POS
evemac
(304 posts)I sharpened some kitchen knives....
IGoToDU
(208 posts)Long conversation with a very dear friend. Were both very busy people and dont get to have a relaxed chat that often.
Blue Owl
(58,787 posts)Fuck him and I hope he eats shit and dies.

Dem4life1970
(1,055 posts)AllyCat
(18,709 posts)Decided to try video gaming with the younger set in the house. We had a great time!
summer_in_TX
(4,082 posts)HShe's in the Norwegian Health Ministry and her country has to deal with the U.S.
I had realistically low expectations I thought. But it was even worse than that. Setting Dems up to be crazy and the villains. Very hard to listen to.
Sickening. There's exactly one thing he may actually be a genius at: marketing. He wove a myth that reminded me of the World Wrestling Federation. Or maybe The Hunger Games.
I've concluded that as unpleasant as that was, it's good to know how bad it is.
SimplyHadEnough
(85 posts)I watched "State of the Swamp".
Old Crank
(6,831 posts)To listen to a fire hose of sleaze for 2 hours.
Silver Gaia
(5,335 posts)We didn't even watch Rachel and Nicole and Jen's "highlights" afterward.
Rhiannon12866
(253,394 posts)IzzaNuDay
(1,273 posts)We were listening to jazz. Made for a relaxing evening!
