Wednesday – February 25, 2026

National Clam Chowder Day

– Pink Shirt Day

– Let’s All Eat Right Day

– National Chocolate-Covered Nut Day

Meme Du Jour

H/T TRAVIS McTRAVESTY

THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1791 – George Washington signs a bill creating the Bank of the United States
1836 – Samuel Colt patents the first revolving cylinder, multi-shot firearm
1913 – The 13th Amendment — income tax – is adopted
1919 – Oregon introduces the first state tax on gasoline — 1 penny a gallon
1964 – Ali knocks out Sonny Liston for his first title

1976 – The Supreme Court rules states may ban the hiring of illegal aliens

News and The Politics out of D.C.

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SOTU HIGHLIGHTS

– PRESIDENT TRUMP OPENED STRONG — ‘OUR NATION IS BACK’

– A DEFINING MOMENT? ‘THE FIRST DUTY THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT’

 – SCOTT JENNINGS ON CNN ASKED VOTERS ABOUT THAT MOMENT

– THE PRESIDENT THANKED REPUBLICANS FOR DELIVERING TAX CUTS — ALL DEMS VOTED AGAINST IT

– ‘IN THE FIRST YEAR OF MY SECOND TERM, SHOULD HAVE BEEN MY THIRD TERM…’ ‘STRANGE THINGS HAPPENED’

– THE TRANS ISSUE AND THE MOMENT TRUMP DECLARED, ‘THESE PEOPLE ARE CRAZY’

– THE MOMENT ISOLATED — 

– JAKE TAPPER DID NOT LIKE ‘THESE PEOPLE ARE CRAZY’ LINE — SEAN DUFFY HAD A RESPONSE

– PRESIDENT IS CONFRONTING THE COST OF HEALTHCARE AND POINTING AT DEMS, ‘CAUSED BY YOU’

– SOME DEMS ACTUALLY STOOD FOR THE ‘STOP INSIDER TRADING’ PUSH BY THE PRESIDENT 

– PRESIDENT TRUMP WANTS AI DATA CENTERS TO PAY FOR THEIR OWN POWER – RATEPAYER PROTECTION ACT

– WHO CAUSED THE AFFORDABILITY CRISIS? — TRUMP TELLS DEMS, ‘YOU CAUSED THAT PROBLEM’

– PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS ‘SAVE AMERICA ACT’ MUST BE THE NEXT LAW CONGRESS PASSES

– HE ALSO CALLED OUT NYC MAYOR MAMDANI FOR REQUIRING TWO IDs TO SHOVEL SNOW

– JD VANCE GOT A NEW JOB — LEADING THE WAR ON FRAUD (WAS RUBIO THINKING HE HAD IT?)

– DEMS DID NOT STAND FOR THE SOBBING MOTHER OF IRINA ZARUTSKA

– NANCY PELOSI WAS PROBABLY NOT HAPPY SHE WAS MENTIONED BY THE PRESIDENT

– TRUMP DREAMS THAT TARIFFS WILL ‘SUBSTANTIALLY REPLACE SUBSTANTIALLY REPLACE’ INCOME TAX

– CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR WAS AWARDED TO ROYCE WILLIAMS — WITH A LONG STANDING OVATION

– DEM REP AL GREEN DID NOT WANT TO STAY FOR THE ENTIRE SPEECH — HE WAS ESCORTED OUT VERY EARLY

– WHAT GOT (MOST) DEMS TO STAND? TEAM USA

– ‘SCREAMING INFIDELS’ IHAN AND RASHIDA SEEM TO BE TRIGGERED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP

– PRESIDENT TRUMP SHAKING HANDS WITH A SUIT-SEARING SEN FETTERMAN (HE’S DEAD TO DEMS)

– SEN KENNEDY TO THE PRESIDENT AFTER THE SPEECH – ‘TAKE THE REST OF THE DAY OFF’

– CNN’s DAVID AXELROD (AN OBAMA INSIDER) THOUGHT TRUMP DID WELL

– REP TIM BURCHETT’S POST-SPEECH ANALYSIS

– USA MEN’S HOCKEY TEAM HEARS ‘FREE BIRD’ DURING THEIR VISIT TO THE WHITE HOUSE

– DAILY WIRE ASKED COLLEGE STUDENTS TO RATE TRUMP’S SOTU (BEFORE IT HAPPENED)

– JOY REID WAS ONE OF THE HOSTS AT THE ‘PEOPLE’s STATE OF THE UNION’ — HAD A MESSAGE FOR MAGA – ‘FUCK Y’ALL’

– REID AND KATIE FANG HOSTED THE PEOPLE’S STATE OF THE UNION

– DeNIRO ADDRESSED THE WHINERS AT THE ‘STATE OF THE SWAMP’ — WE WILL BE READY TO TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK

– STATE OF THE SWAMP FEATURED PEOPLE IN FROG COSTUMES????

– THE SCREAMING GIRAFFE HAD TO BE A COMEDIAN, RIGHT? (HE WAS SEN WYDEN’S OPENING ACT)

– MS-13 NOW’s SIMONE SANDERS SAYS THE HOCKEY TEAM WAS USED AS POLITICAL PROPS

– IS THIS A REASON WHY GOV SPANBERGER GAVE THE DEM RESPONSE? (THEIR BENCH IS NOT LIKED)

More News From DC

– TED CRUZ SAYS LIMITED STRIKES ON IRAN MAY BE HAPPENING SOON

– GANG OF EIGHT GETS A CLASSIFIED BRIEFING ON IRAN

– DID THE HILL WATCH A DIFFERENT SPEECH? HERE ARE THE FIVE SOTU TAKEAWAYS FROM THAT SITE

– CNBC SAW FIVE DIFFERENT THINGS IN THE SPEECH

– WHAT IS THE STATE DEPT SAYING ABOUT TRAVEL TO MEXICO?

General News

– SAVANNAH GUTHRIE’S LATEST VIDEO — SHE SEEMS TO HAVE ACCEPTED THAT HER MOTHER IS NO LONGER ALIVE

– NYC’s MAYOR DOESN’T BELIEVE 19 HOMELESS PEOPLE DIED BECAUSE OF HIS POLICIES

– TEXAS DROPS EFFORT TO RENAME HIGHWAY FOR CHARLIE KIRK

– FORD ISSUES RECALL FOR OVER 400K VEHICLES — IS YOURS ON THE LIST?

– NO, THERE WON’T BE AN ELECTRIC LAMBO — COMPANY CALLED IT AN EXPENSIVE HOBBY

– HEROES: MOVERS SPOT GIRL ON AN AMBER ALERT, USE VEHICLES TO BLOCK IN CAR TIL COPS ARRIVE

Other News Catching My Eye

– TRAGIC – MARTIN SHORT’S 42-YR-OLD DAUGHTER APPEARS TO HAVE TAKEN HER OWN LIFE

– THE GUY WHO INVENTED THE SQUATTY POTTY IS ARRESTED ON CHILD PORN CHARGES

– UK MEDICAL MIRACLE — WOMAN WITH A TRANSPLANTED WOMB GIVES BIRTH

– IN CASE YOU MISSED IT — VINCE McMAHON CRASHED HIS BENTLEY AND IT WAS ALL CAUGHT ON COP VIDEO