Thoughts on the SOTU: “That Was like a Senility Circus Last Night”

Audio By Carbonatix

Published: March 2, 2022 | Date of Source Audio: March 2, 2022

Modified for publication from the original audio program

Mike Gallagher unpacks the SOTU clown car

Mike Gallagher: When a president of the United States stands up before the American people and tells a bald-face lie in a State of the Union address, you could always tell if the media is on his side or is willing to do their job. Or, choice three – they're going to be jackals attacking his presidency every minute of every hour of every day like they did for four years of Donald Trump. If Trump told a whopper like this one, they would be on the side of the road, hyperventilating. They wouldn't be able to sit in front of their keyboards long enough to type the articles of condemnation over a bald-face lie. Oh, they'll acknowledge it’s a lie. The Washington Post months and months ago gave Joe Biden and this administration four Pinocchios for lying about Trump's tax cuts. I guess all you can do when you have an effective president you hate is just lie about him, over and over and over again. You can disagree with my opinion. I can disagree with yours, but I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to open up this microphone and tell you a gargantuan untruth like Joe Biden did last night during the State of the Union.

(Audio clip, President Biden): Unlike the $2 trillion tax cut passed in the previous administration that benefited the top 1% of Americans, the American Rescue (crowd booing) Plan, the American Rescue Plan helped working people and left no one behind (applause, cheering).

Gallagher: That was like senility circus last night. I mean, I'm not kidding you. It was unreal. Schumer starting to – if you were watching that clip at Salem News Channel – as you're listening to it on the radio, there's Schumer starting to stand up, looking around with that weird maniacal smile he always has plastered on his face. There was Pelosi with whatever she was doing last night. I mean, I was praying her dentures would pop out, give me a little bit of reason to enjoy watching the State of the Union. I thought any minute now, they're going to come out. She's trying to keep 'em in there. And I'm not making fun of her because I want to look as good as she does at 81. Now, I won't get all the work done that she's gotten. I think she looks as good as she does through many artificial means, if you know what I mean. I mean, she's keeping the Botox clinic in San Francisco afloat, single-handedly. If her eyebrows go any higher on that forehead of hers, it's going to go into her hairline. But honestly, to the substance and to things that matter. How do reporters not grill Jen Psaki today, the day after the State of the Union, say, how does he get away with trying to tell that lie?

Do you know the vast majority of Americans, something like 86% of Americans, benefited from the Trump tax cuts? And I asked a friend of mine this morning, what do they even say about it? How do they even justify or explain that kind of a massive lie to the American people? Note, the Trump tax cuts didn't benefit only the top 1% of Americans, President Biden. And you're a liar. And I'm sorry, I'm not saying that lightly. But you can't get up there at that bully pulpit and lie to the American in people. It's infuriating. And of course, nothing as grotesque as all of these people – I can't get out over the decision: The White House dropped the face-mask mandate hours before the State of the Union.

“It's all about optics. It's always been about optics.”

I've got a message to anyone who has been hassled at your job. Anybody who has lost their job, anybody who's been fired or chose to resign over the ridiculous mask mandates. All I can do is apologize. I apologize on behalf of the people. I am so sorry that you had to sit there and watch these hypocritical clowns last night, hugging each other and slapping each other on the back and getting in each other's faces. Bottom line is they don't take any kind of mask mandate seriously. It's all about optics. It's always been about optics. Every company in America that followed this ridiculous mandate should be ashamed of itself. Every company. And yes, I mean everyone. I'm sorry. This is infuriating. The White House decision hours before Biden's first State of the Union follows a similar one from Congress' Office of the Attending Physician, who said that masks are now optional on the House floor for the president's speech. Oh, really? So did the science change what, Monday? All of a sudden the science changed and COVID can't get you if you don't wear a mask. Then again, Biden is trying to talk about a wall stopping a vaccine, or something.

Here's the Commander in Chief. This is the guy that got, you know, 900 million votes. This is the guy that Americans lined up to vote for. This is the guy who is in the Oval Office with the nuclear code. Here's the President of the United States on COVID and vaccines.

(Audio clip, President Biden): We'll continue vaccinating the world. We've sent 475 million vaccine doses to 112 countries. More than any nation on earth. We won't stop. Because you can't build the wall high enough to keep out a vaccine. The vaccine can stop the spread of these diseases.

Gallagher: I think we ought to put that on a bumper sticker: “‘You can't build a wall high enough to keep out the vaccine’— President Joe Biden, 46th president of the United States.” I think it's got a good ring to it, don't you? I mean, I'd like to see the Washington Post headline and writers put that one together: “Joe Biden at the State of the Union: You cannot build a wall high enough to keep out a vaccine.”