Thursday, December 18, 2025
PMT: Rapid-Fire Trump Facts!
Last night, President Trump gave a televised address to the nation. First of all, I'm glad to see him doing this-- one genuine problem with the Biden administration was how rarely we saw him.
It was kind of a weird talk, though, given in a rapid-fire cadence through a sound system that seemed poorly modulated-- only a little better than the PA system in a bus station.
Trump seemed mad and kind of manic; it was like he was packing a one-hour speech into 20 minutes. Usually his speeches have a certain meandering cadence that is part of his charm.
There wasn't a lot of new content: lots about Biden, which is getting pretty stale after nearly a year, and a fair amount of not-actually-true claims about the economy, crime, and some other things. He lashed into Somalis in Minnesota (calling them "Somalians") before saying "inflation has stopped, America is the hottest country, everybody says so, etc etc etc., Merry Christmas." [paraphrased]
I'm not sure anyone is going to see this and change their mind about anything, one way or the other.
