{"id":67250,"date":"2026-02-25T03:56:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/why-the-longest-ever-state-of-the-union-address-was-the-most-inconsequential\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T03:56:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:56:22","slug":"why-the-longest-ever-state-of-the-union-address-was-the-most-inconsequential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/why-the-longest-ever-state-of-the-union-address-was-the-most-inconsequential\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the longest-ever State of the Union address was the most inconsequential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid Trump\u2019s lies and xenophobic rants, people struggling to pay bills and make ends meet are unlikely to be moved<\/p>\n<p>He wanted to give the king\u2019s speech. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> entered the US House chamber on Tuesday like a medieval monarch, with Republicans lined up eager to touch his royal robes (or, in two cases, grab a selfie with him). But within moments, the illusion was shattered.<\/p>\n<p>As the US president strolled by, soaking up adulation, Democratic representative Al Green of Texas held <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cspan\/status\/2026482325207331327?s=20\">aloft a handwritten sign<\/a>: \u201cBlack people aren\u2019t apes!\u201d \u2013 a reference to Trump recently sharing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/12\/trump-racist-video-staffer\">racist video<\/a> depiction of Barack and Michelle Obama.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/24\/trump-state-of-union-speech-analysis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid Trump\u2019s lies and xenophobic rants, people struggling to pay bills and make ends meet are unlikely to be moved He wanted to give the king\u2019s speech. Donald Trump entered the US House chamber on Tuesday like a medieval monarch, with Republicans lined up eager to touch his royal robes (or, in two cases, grab &#8230; <a title=\"Why the longest-ever State of the Union address was the most inconsequential\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/why-the-longest-ever-state-of-the-union-address-was-the-most-inconsequential\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Why the longest-ever State of the Union address was the most inconsequential\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}