We will hear another State of the Union message on Tuesday, February 24, 2026. Donald Trump will be giving it. I imagine it will be filled with all the imaginings in that little brain of his. Trump sugar plums and such.
I’ll save you the trouble of watching because I can tell you this. People are struggling in the United States right now. In so many different ways.
People can’t make ends meet. They can’t buy groceries or medicine. We can no longer afford to buy houses. Our freedoms are being taken away one by one. Our planet is being destroyed by the actions of the president. Who then benefits from these things? The ultra-rich.
And in addition to all of this, people are being held in concentration camps. Right here in free America. Those people were looking for freedom from oppression and violence. And now they are in jail.
We are suffering. Physically. Mentally. Emotionally. And Spiritually. As a country. As we, the people, each one of us.
Here is what else I can tell you. As of the most recent complete records, there have been 100 official State of the Union and Annual Message addresses delivered to Congress by U.S. presidents since the first one in 1790. This count includes both in-person speeches and formal written messages that functioned as the State of the Union report.
Our great president, George Washington, began the practice in 1790. Thomas Jefferson switched to written messages instead of speeches for over a century. But then Woodrow Wilson revived in-person delivery in 1913, and most presidents have followed since.
We’d like to hear the truth about the state of things. We are in a state of trouble. Of disrepair. Of oppression. We are in a state of criminal activity and tyranny.
But historically, presidents say whatever they want. A State of the Union address is a political speech, not a sworn testimony. So presidents have often used it to frame the economy in the best possible light and minimize failures.
That means on Tuesday, we will most likely hear selective facts and all-out lies. There will certainly be a fair share of over-hyped optimistic interpretations. We’ll get a full dose of rhetoric. Exaggerations. Omissions.
Donald Trump has given three of these addresses so far. In those, he frequently made claims about immigration, crime, and economic performance that independent fact-checkers rated as false or misleading. Not just one source. But many.
So. I will be boycotting the State of the Union on Tuesday. I can see the truth of America with my own two eyes. And the future does not look bright in any way.
What I will do is to continue to work against this man and his corruption. I will continue to write letters and make phone calls to members of Congress. I’ll march in protests. And I will support our great Constitution in every way that I am able.
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
