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Let's see how the mainstream media spins the message around.

ElYorsh says

Let's see how the mainstream media spins the message around.

"Trump didn't fix all the bad that Biden didn't do by eliminating all the Bideninflation that never happened. He's had 11 months already!."

I also suspect the War-in-Venezuela rumors were a Trump Trick to get the Media to cover it, hoping for a "Evil Warmonger" moment.

If anyone has the transcript, please post it.

FreeAmericanDOP says

I also suspect the War-in-Venezuela rumors were a Trump Trick to get the Media to cover it, hoping for a "Evil Warmonger" moment.

Congress voted to stop it twice, both votes failed. So it’s happening, and yes it’s for oil. Probably next year. It’s Christmas.

How can Trump claim that he caused drug prices to have decreased 400, 500 600 percent? Are we being paid to take medications now?

Oh never mind ... a quick google search shows he always says that. I guess I am behind the times.

Not on the WH website yet, just checked.

Meanwhile, Tuqar bin Lyar was pushing he heard that Trump would announce an invasion of Venezuela, which didn't happen of course.

It was a good speech. He did embellish a lot. But that’s standard Trump.

He wants lower rates, translation economy is a dying dog. Not his fault, but asset inflation will only make it worse, and that’ll be his fault.

psychoh says

How can Trump claim that he caused drug prices to have decreased 400, 500 600 percent? Are we being paid to take medications now?

Trump never cared much about speaking precisely and clearly.

But even so, he was legitimately elected president three times because he knows what the crowd wants and how to play to that.

In fact, I'm sure he deliberately makes quite a few errors in his statements just to cause conniptions at the NY Times. He seems to really enjoy that, and it boosts his popularity every time the Times reacts with elitist disdain, as they inevitably do.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/monocular-thursday-december-18-2025

Early this morning, the New York Times did what it loves best. It ridiculed and mischaracterized the Republican President, in an nasty story headlined, “Trump Delivers Attacks and Deflects Blame for Americans’ Economic Worries.” Two days ago, the White House announced the quickly scheduled speech, which started last night at 9 pm EST, ran for about 20 minutes, and preempted regularly scheduled primetime programming on all the alphabet networks.

I’ll concede that, in terms of mechanics, it wasn’t Trump’s best. He speed-read the speech, producing a kind of high-energy monotone (for him), which allowed salivating critics to describe it as shouting. Not crazy old man shouting, like some other former official I could name. It was more like someone had told him, “you have to finish before the 9:30 shows start, and for Pete’s sake, speak up.” (The story ended with this: “Afterwards, he asked how he had done. Ms. Wiles replied, ‘I told you 20 minutes and you were 20 minutes on the dot.’” So.)

In any case: “Mr. Trump spoke loudly and at a fast clip,” the Times giddily noted. Yeah, we get it. He had to wrap it up before the commercial break.

But in terms of content, the speech was a knockout; almost too jam-packed, nearly too much material for a 20-minute address. That’s because there is too much good news. It was probably hard to decide what to leave out. Supporters noted how cleverly the President forced the media to cover his successes, by promoting them himself...

It was hard to find an issue that wasn’t mentioned. He declared no wars, and announced no new policies (except one— active U.S. servicemembers will get a $1,776 Christmas bonus from tariff revenue. That’s nice.) Rather, the speech was a mission review from his first 11 months in office, with a particular focus on prices.

The mask is now off. The Times got right to it, in the article’s second sentence: “The president has been on the defensive recently over the issue of affordability, which congressional Democrats hope to use to sweep back into power during the midterm elections.” (Meaning, the Times hopes to use affordability to help sweep Democrats back into power, but whatever.) ...

It’s wild that the Democrats could create Bidenflation, then, with the full cooperation of the media, gaslight everybody that it’s Trump’s fault because he isn’t fixing it fast enough. It’s like those twins who murdered their parents demanding sympathy for being orphans now. ...

And perhaps most importantly, he confirmed real wages were rapidly improving. “After years of record-setting falling incomes, our policies are boosting take-home pay at a historic pace,” the President said.

We can’t lower prices enough to dig our way out of Bidenflation. Wages must rise faster than inflation. It’s the only way.

The only reaction quote the Times cared to include came from Trump’s top Congressional enemy, ratlike Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), 93.5, who likes to puts the cheese on BBQ burgers while they are still frozen. I did not make that up. He probably also eats raw chicken. “President Trump’s speech just showed he lives in a bubble,” said the generic statement hastily excreted by the Senator’s office. “People are feeling squeezed harder and harder every day and tonight Donald Trump took a victory lap.”

One imagines Trump’s speech must have been solid if Schumer couldn’t come up with anything more specific to criticize.

FortWayneHatesRealtors says

Congress voted to stop it twice, both votes failed. So it’s happening, and yes it’s for oil. Probably next year. It’s Christmas.

Cool, if we didn't enforce the Monroe Doctrine we'd be really in trouble.

Patrick says

If anyone has the transcript, please post it.

Video Link:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/12/president-trump-highlights-americas-historic-comeback-in-year-end-address/

Transcript:
https://www.rev.com/transcripts/presidential-address-on-12-17-25

FreeAmericanDOP says

FortWayneHatesRealtors says

Congress voted to stop it twice, both votes failed. So it’s happening, and yes it’s for oil. Probably next year. It’s Christmas.

Cool, if we didn't enforce the Monroe Doctrine we'd be really in trouble.

If it works out, energy costs will be stable and low. If it doesn’t, help us God.

psychoh says

How can Trump claim that he caused drug prices to have decreased 400, 500 600 percent? Are we being paid to take medications now?

Donnie T is not exactly math genius.

FreeAmericanDOP says

FortWayneHatesRealtors says

Congress voted to stop it twice, both votes failed. So it’s happening, and yes it’s for oil. Probably next year. It’s Christmas.

Cool, if we didn't enforce the Monroe Doctrine we'd be really in trouble.

Except we hadn't enforced it for ages. If we did there won't be Kommie Kunts regime sitting in Cuba.

Do we really believe the average American is $1,000 above inflation?

RWSGFY says

Except we hadn't enforced it for ages. If we did there won't be Kommie Kunts regime sitting in Cuba.

We isolated Cuba as best we could, until our Euro cheap vacation allies decided to stop cooperating.

GNL says

Do we really believe the average American is $1,000 above inflation?

I do, but that's still behind the overall Bidinflation; it just means it's finally starting to catch up. Has $7-10k more to go before wages/salaries equal the Bidenflation run up.

President Donald Trump (00:00):

Good evening, America. 11 months ago, I inherited a mess and I'm fixing it. When I took office, inflation was the worst in 48 years, and some would say in the history of our country, which caused prices to be higher than ever before, making life unaffordable for millions and millions of Americans. This happened during a Democrat administration, and it's when we first began hearing the word affordability. Our border was open and because of this, our country was being invaded by an army of 25 million people, many who came from prisons and jails, mental institutions, and insane asylums. They were drug dealers, gang members, and even 11,888 murderers, more than 50% of whom killed more than one person. This is what the Biden administration allowed to happen to our country, and it can never be allowed to happen again. We had men playing in women's sports, transgender for everybody, crime at record levels with law enforcement, and words such as that, just absolutely forbidden.

(01:19)
We had the worst trade deals ever made, and our country was laughed at from all over the world, but they're not laughing anymore. Over the past 11 months, we have brought more positive change to Washington than any administration in American history. There's never been anything like it, and I think most would agree. I was elected in a landslide, winning the popular vote and all seven swing states and everything else, with a mandate to take on a sick and corrupt system that really just took the wealth from people and crushed the dreams of the American people.

(02:01)
For the last four years, the United States was ruled by politicians who fought only for insiders, illegal aliens, career criminals, corporate lobbyists, prisoners, terrorists, and above all foreign nations which took advantage of us at levels never seen before. They flooded your cities and towns with illegal aliens. They decimated your hard-earned savings.

(02:26)
They indoctrinated your children with hate for America. Really, I mean, they just released a level of violent felons that we had never seen to prey on innocent. They caused war. They caused mayhem. They caused a horrible situation all over the globe, but now you have a president who fights for the law-abiding, hardworking people of our country, the ones who make this nation run, who make this nation work. And after just one year, we have achieved more than anyone could have imagined.

(03:01)
Starting on day one, I took immediate action to stop the invasion of our southern border. For the past seven months, zero illegal aliens have been allowed into our country, a feat which everyone said was absolutely impossible. Do you remember when Joe Biden said that he needed Congress to pass legislation to help close the border? He was always blaming Congress and everyone else.

(03:26)
As it turned out, we didn't need legislation. We just needed a new president. We inherited the worst border anywhere in the world, and we quickly turned it into the strongest border in the history of our country. In other words, in a few short months, we went from worst to best. We're deporting criminals, restoring safety to our most dangerous cities. Just take a look at Washington, DC. It's at levels of safety that we've never seen before. And they decimated the bloodthirsty foreign drug cartels. We did that all by ourselves, with our people, and we're so proud of it because they were poisoning and destroying our population. Drugs brought in by ocean and by sea are now down 94%. We have broken the grip of sinister woke radicals in our schools, and control over those schools is back now in the hands of our great and loving states where education belongs.

(04:31)
After rebuilding the United States military in my first term, and with the addition we are adding right now, we have the most powerful military anywhere in the world, and it's not even close. I've restored American strength, settled 8 wars in 10 months, destroyed the Iran nuclear threat, and ended the war in Gaza, bringing for the first time in 3,000 years, peace to the Middle East, and secured the release of the hostages, both living and dead.

(05:04)
Here at home, we're bringing our economy back from the brink of ruin. The last administration and their allies in Congress looted our treasury for trillions of dollars, driving up prices and everything at levels never seen before. I am bringing those high prices down and bringing them down very fast. Let's look at the facts. Under the Biden administration, car prices rose 22%, and in many states, 30% or more.

(05:33)
Gasoline rose 30 to 50%. Hotel rates rose 37%. Airfares rose 31%. Now under our leadership they're all coming down, and coming down fast. Democrat politicians also sent the cost of grocery soaring, but we are solving that too. The price of a Thanksgiving Turkey was down 33% compared to the Biden last year. The price of eggs is down 82% since March, and everything else is falling rapidly, and it's not done yet. But boy, are we making progress. Nobody can believe what's going on.

(06:12)
Here are just some of the efforts that we have underway, you will see in your wallets and bank accounts in the new year. After years of record-setting falling incomes, our policies are boosting take-home pay at a historic pace. Under Biden, real wages plummeted by $3,000. Under Trump, the typical factory worker has seen a wage increase of $1,300. For construction workers, it's $1,800. For miners, we're bringing back clean, beautiful coal. It's $3,300. And for the first time in years, wages are rising much faster than inflation. Remember that. Wages, just look at it. Wages are going up much faster than inflation. How big is that?

(07:03)
Very importantly, there are more people working today than at any time in American history, and 100% of all jobs created since I took office have been in the private sector. Think of that. 100% of all jobs have been in the private sector rather than government, which is the only way to make a country powerful and great. This historic trend will continue Already, I've secured a record-breaking $18 trillion of investment into the United States, which means jobs, wage increases, growth, factory openings, and far greater national security. Much of this success has been accomplished by tariffs. My favorite word, tariffs, which for many decades have been used successfully by other countries against us, but not anymore.

(07:56)
Companies know that if they build in America, there are no tariffs, and that's why they're coming home to the USA in record numbers. They're building factories and plants at levels we haven't seen, AI, automobiles. We're doing what nobody thought was even possible, not even remotely possible. There has never, frankly, been anything like it.

(08:19)
One year ago, our country was dead. We were absolutely dead. Our country was ready to fail. Totally fail. Now, we're the hottest country anywhere in the world, and that's said by every single leader that I've spoken to over the last five months. Next year, you will also see the results of the largest tax cuts in American history that were really accomplished through our Great, Big, Beautiful Bill, perhaps the most sweeping legislation ever passed in Congress. We wrapped 12 different bills up into one beautiful bill. That includes no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on social security for our great seniors.

(09:05)
Under these cuts, many families will be saving between $11,000 and $20,000 a year, and next spring is projected to be the largest tax refund season of all time. Because of tariffs, along with the just passed One, Big, Beautiful Bill, tonight, I am also proud to announce that more than 1,450,000, think of this.

(09:31)
1,450,000 military service members will receive a special, we call warrior dividend before Christmas, a warrior dividend. In honor of our nation's founding in 1776, we are sending every soldier $1,776. Think of that. And the checks are already on the way. Nobody understood that one until about 30 minutes ago. We made a lot more money than anybody thought because of tariffs, and the bill helped us along. Nobody deserves it more than our military, and I say congratulations to everybody. And by the way, we now have record enlistment in our military, and last year we had among the worst recruitment numbers in our military's history. A lot of difference a year makes.

(10:23)
In addition, I'm doing what no politician of either party has ever done, standing up to the special interest to dramatically reduce the price of prescription drugs. I negotiated directly with the drug companies and foreign nations, which were taken advantage of our country for many decades to slash prices on drugs and pharmaceuticals by as much as 400, 500, and even 600%.

(10:51)
In other words, your drug costs will be plummeting downward. And I used the threat of tariffs to get foreign countries who would never have done it to pay the cost of this giant dollar reduction. They stopped ripping us off, and it began as of four days ago. There has never been anything like this in the history of our country. Drugs have only gone up, but now they'll be going down by numbers never conceived possible. It's called Most-Favored-Nation, and no president has ever had the courage or ability to get this done until now. The first of these unprecedented price reductions will be available starting in January through a new website, trumprx.gov. And these big price cuts will greatly reduce the cost of healthcare. I'm also taking on the gigantic health insurance companies that have gotten rich on billions of dollars of money that should go directly to the people.

(11:49)
The money should go to the people, that's you, so they can buy their own health insurance, which will give far better benefits at much lower costs. It will be far better health insurance. The current Unaffordable Care Act was created to make insurance companies rich. It was bad healthcare at much too high a cost. And you see that now in the steep increase in premiums being demanded by the Democrats, and they are demanding those increases, and it's their fault. It is not the Republican's fault. It's the Democrat's fault. It's the Unaffordable Care Act, and everybody knew it.

(12:27)
Again, I want the money to go directly to the people so you can buy your own healthcare. You'll get much better healthcare at a much lower price. The only losers will be insurance companies that have gotten rich and the Democrat Party, which is totally controlled by those same insurance companies. They will not be happy, but that's okay with me because you, the people are finally going to be getting great healthcare at a lower cost.

(12:52)
Another major focus is the cost of energy. For years, the radical left Democrats exploited the green energy scam as an excuse to funnel many billions of dollars into their own massive slush funds as their energy restrictions drastically drove up prices and they drove them up at record levels. Electricity costs surge 30 to 100% under Biden, and the typical family lost 5,000 to $10,000 in higher energy costs. Think of that, $5,000 to $10,000 you lost. On day one, I declared a national energy emergency. Gasoline is now under $2.50 a gallon in much of the country. In some states, it, by the way, just hit $1.99 a gallon. And within the next 12 months, we will have opened 1,600 new electrical generating plants, a record, and it's a record that won't be beaten by practically, I would say, by anybody, or certainly not very soon. Prices on electricity and everything else will fall dramatically.

(14:00)
The Democrat inflation disaster, again, the worst in the history of our country also robbed millions of Americans of homeownership and indeed the American dream. The yearly cost of a typical new mortgage increased by $15,000 under Democrat rule. In 11 months, we've already gotten that annual cost down by $3,000, and it's coming down a lot lower. Wait till you see, the numbers are going to be shocking. And I'll soon announce our next chairman of the Federal Reserve, someone who believes in lower interest rates by a lot, and mortgage payments will be coming down even further early the new year. And you will see this in the new year, I will announce some of the most aggressive housing reform plans in American history.

(14:50)
A major factor in driving up housing costs was the colossal border invasion. We have never been invaded. This is the worst thing that, frankly, in my opinion, the worst thing that the Biden administration did to our country is the invasion at the border. The last administration and their allies in Congress brought in millions and millions of migrants and gave them taxpayer-funded housing while your rent and housing costs skyrocketed.

(15:19)
Over 60% of growth in the rental market came from foreign migrants. At the same time, illegal aliens stole American jobs and flooded emergency rooms getting free healthcare and education paid for by you, the American taxpayer. They also increased the cost of law enforcement by numbers so high that they are not even to be mentioned. For the first time in 50 years, we are now seeing reverse migration as migrants go back home, leaving more housing and more jobs for Americans. In the year before my election, all net creation of jobs was going to foreign migrants.

(15:57)
Since I took office, 100% of all net job creation has gone to American-born citizens. 100%. In the end, government either serves the productive, patriotic, hardworking American citizen, or it serves those who break the laws, cheat the system, and seek power and profit at the expense of our nation. Look at Minnesota, where Somalians have taken over the economics of the state and have stolen billions and billions of dollars from Minnesota and indeed from the United States of America, and we're going to put an end to it.

(16:37)
For so long as before my election, the vast majority of good and decent Americans were forced to watch as corrupt politician plundered the halls of power, exploited our taxpayers, and pillaged every system that makes civilized society function, but not anymore. And you see that every day, not anymore. We're putting America first and we are making America great again. Very simple. We are making America great again. Tonight, after 11 months, our border is secure, inflation is stopped, wages are up, prices are down, our nation is strong. America is respected, and our country is back stronger than ever before.

(17:22)
We're poised for an economic boom, the likes of which the world has never seen. Soon we will host the World Cup and the Olympics, both of which I got, but most importantly, we will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. There could be no more fitting tribute to this epic milestone than to complete the comeback of America that began just one year ago. When the world looks at us next year, let them see a nation that is loyal to its citizens, faithful to its workers, confident to its identity, certain to its destiny, and the envy of the entire globe. We are respected again like we have never been respected before. To each and every one of you, have a Merry Christmas and a happy new year. God bless you all.

RWSGFY says

Except we hadn't enforced it for ages. If we did there won't be Kommie Kunts regime sitting in Cuba.

The USSR did not install Castro. Plus, the US did prevent the USSR from building a naval base in Cuba.

GNL says

Do we really believe the average American is $1,000 above inflation?

Yes, because it is not that much. For someone making $50k he only needs to make an additional $2500 to be $1000 above inflation.