{"id":67303,"date":"2026-02-25T12:59:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/nobel-prize-for-fiction-trumps-state-of-the-union-provokes-polarized-reactions\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T12:59:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:59:35","slug":"nobel-prize-for-fiction-trumps-state-of-the-union-provokes-polarized-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/nobel-prize-for-fiction-trumps-state-of-the-union-provokes-polarized-reactions\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Nobel prize for fiction\u2019: Trump\u2019s State of the Union provokes polarized reactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats accuse president\u2019s address of litany of lies as Republicans hail his bullish claims about year back in office<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/feb\/25\/donald-trump-state-of-the-union-us-politics-iran-latest-news-updates\">US politics \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Congressional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/democrats\">Democrats<\/a> lined up on Tuesday night to call <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> a liar and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/republicans\">Republicans<\/a> said America had never been greater. The country\u2019s longest-ever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/state-of-the-union-address\">State of the Union<\/a> address had ended, and the two parties had, again, watched entirely different speeches.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s address ran for more than two hours, with the president touching on tariffs, border security, military recruitment and energy production, among other topics. He told the country the economy was booming, inflation was under control and a golden age was at hand, but Democrats were not persuaded.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/25\/trump-state-of-the-union-reaction-democrats-republicans\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats accuse president\u2019s address of litany of lies as Republicans hail his bullish claims about year back in office US politics \u2013 live updates Congressional Democrats lined up on Tuesday night to call Donald Trump a liar and Republicans said America had never been greater. The country\u2019s longest-ever State of the Union address had ended, &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Nobel prize for fiction\u2019: Trump\u2019s State of the Union provokes polarized reactions\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/nobel-prize-for-fiction-trumps-state-of-the-union-provokes-polarized-reactions\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Nobel prize for fiction\u2019: Trump\u2019s State of the Union provokes polarized reactions\">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-67303","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\/67303","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=67303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}