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“These people are crazy. I’m telling you, they’re crazy.”

That was one of President Donald Trump’s signature lines of Tuesday night’s State of the Union address as he blasted his Democrat opponents for sitting silently (and in a few cases jeering) while he spoke about protecting children from being “transitioned” with drugs and surgical procedures.

This really was the central theme of the speech: Common sense versus crazy.

Despite the decade-long attempt to portray him as a deranged and illegitimate shock to the system, it’s Trump who is bringing back normalcy as Democrats descend into madness.

On point after point, Trump delivered factual assessments about where the country is compared to a few years ago. He noted that crime and inflation are down, American savings accounts are up, and our enemies are on their back heels as opposed to being on the march.

At every turn, as Trump pointed out, Democrats have punted in their responsibilities to protect and represent the American people.

On no set of issues was that clearer than his record on immigration and border enforcement. And that’s where Trump landed his biggest blow.

Trump rightly pointed out that since returning to office the border crisis has all but dissolved.

“In the past 9 months, zero illegal aliens have been admitted to the United States,” Trump said. “The flow of deadly fentanyl across our border is down by a record 56%… And last year, the murder rate saw its single largest decline in recorded history… the lowest number in over 125 years.”

By the reaction of Democrats in the attendance, you would have guessed this is all terrible news.

And maybe from their perspective, it is. They appear to have been counting on Biden’s border crisis to go on indefinitely, for their constellation of NGOs to continue getting government support to fan its flames, and for taxpayer dollars to keep flowing to their new, imported voters.

Democrats clearly no longer care if immigration happens legally or not, so why should they care if taxpayer dollars are going to legitimate sources as long as their supporters get paid, right?

One of the great lines of the night was when Trump blasted the massive and shameful fraud that occurred under the averted eye of Gov. Tim Walz and the entire Minnesota Democrat political establishment.

“The Somali pirates who ransacked Minnesota remind us that there are large parts of the world where bribery, corruption, and lawlessness are the norm, not the exception,” Trump said. “Importing these cultures through unrestricted immigration and open borders brings those problems right here, to the USA—and it is the American people who pay the price, in higher medical bills, car insurance rates, rent, taxes, and perhaps most importantly, crime.”

That’s absolutely correct. Prudence would have dictated that American leaders should have been wary before importing countless people from one of the most corrupt parts of the world and giving them essentially a blank check to the treasury once they arrived.

But none of that prudence existed under President Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats. And folly has slipped into madness as under Democrats who, once they lost national power, decided to go back to their roots as the party of rebellion and sedition.

To what end? All to apparently protect noncitizens, criminals, drug traffickers, and rapists.

As if on cue, the alternate performance put on by Democrats—and it really was a performance—was featuring, I kid you not, a man in a giraffe suit blowing on a harmonica and gloating about how he was fresh off coming out of an “ICE prison” in Minneapolis.

This is what Democrats are doing instead of attending President Trump's State of the Union speech.Democrats are literally hanging out with deranged Leftists dressed in giraffe costumes bragging about getting arrested by ICE. pic.twitter.com/hMIUHrmrHy— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 25, 2026

This is what Democrats are doing instead of attending President Trump's State of the Union speech.Democrats are literally hanging out with deranged Leftists dressed in giraffe costumes bragging about getting arrested by ICE. pic.twitter.com/hMIUHrmrHy

This reinforces the point that the Democrat Party isn’t led by sober minded statesmen, wise defenders of the liberal order. Instead, it’s being pulled this way and that by a deranged activist class that has little connection to this country or even reality.

These were the people who were supposedly protecting our “norms” against the populist Trump. But it turns out they weren’t protecting anything at all besides their insane ideological agenda, which was imposed ruthlessly.

Trump effectively laid out that he was, unlike his opposition, going to prioritize American citizens. He was going to take common sense, level headed positions that most Americans still believe in.

Trump also made it clear that if his opponents on the Left retake federal power, they will immediately return to the ruinous open borders, and many other terrible policies, that Americans voted against in 2024.

.@POTUS: "We can never forget that many in this room not only allowed the border invasion to happen before I got involved—but indeed, they would do it all over again if ever given the chance." pic.twitter.com/YU3lwuH3sZ— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 25, 2026

.@POTUS: "We can never forget that many in this room not only allowed the border invasion to happen before I got involved—but indeed, they would do it all over again if ever given the chance." pic.twitter.com/YU3lwuH3sZ

In a sense, it was the way Democrats acted Tuesday night that said nearly as much as Trump’s speech. House Speaker Mike Johnson said it well when he noted that it was “good” for the American people to see just how “shameful” and out of touch the opposition had really become.

'IT WAS SHAMEFUL'House Speaker @SpeakerJohnson condemns Democrats for applauding themselves while Republicans stood and cheered for "all these great Americans who deserved all this attention" and received honors from Trump. pic.twitter.com/PaPoWL2oeH— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) February 25, 2026

'IT WAS SHAMEFUL'House Speaker @SpeakerJohnson condemns Democrats for applauding themselves while Republicans stood and cheered for "all these great Americans who deserved all this attention" and received honors from Trump. pic.twitter.com/PaPoWL2oeH

Whatever one can say about the state of the union, Trump’s leadership, America’s place in the world, it’s hard to imagine how much worse things would be under the renewed tyranny of Democrat theater kids.

That will undoubtedly be the GOP’s message after Tuesday night and heading into the midterms.

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