Americans LOVED Trump’s Speech, and Why Not? It Rocked!

Well, the instapolls came in and the verdict was so in favor of Trump that a huge chunk of Harris voters had to admit the speech was pretty great. 

Really, really reat, actually. The poll numbers are better than I can remember for any president’s speech to a joint session of Congress. 

The Brad Parscale axiom was that when you’re explaining you’re losing, but when Trump is entertaining, he’s winning—74% of speech watchers, per CBS/YouGov, called the speech exactly that. pic.twitter.com/7AtzALWLlM

— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) March 5, 2025

It’s hard to say how much the reaction is skewed by the fact that when Republicans are in office they are more likely to watch, and vice-versa. But the speech was objectively superb, the emotional moments were all highs and no lows, and the only people who could have been actually replelled by anything would be people with hard-core Trump-Derangement Syndrome. 

🚨 CNN: 69% of Americans had a positive reaction to President Trump’s speech. Nice! pic.twitter.com/SZ3fZy9G24

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 5, 2025

One reason the speech served Trump well was his focus on 80-20 issues such as border security and protecting women and children. When he spoke of more controversial issues, he was relentlessly upbeat. 

He did take a lot of digs at the Democrats, but did so by proxy almost every time by focusing his criticism on Biden. The only direct dig at the collected Democrats in front of him was perfect, because they proved him right throughout the speech. 

He said the obvious: Democrats hate Trump more than they love their country or even ordinary people whose heroism should inspire us all. A young man with brain cancer. An aspirant to West Point getting accepted. A terrorist brought to justice. Peace talks for Ukraine. A heroic border patrol agent. An innocent man brought home from prison in Russia. The family of Corey Comperatore. 

The Democrats couldn’t clap for any of them. 

.@POTUS: “Democrats sitting before me — for just this one night, why not join us in celebrating so many incredible wins for America? For the good of our nation, let’s work together and let’s truly MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

(Democrats stayed seated) pic.twitter.com/8VL6XwAz2t

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 5, 2025

Trump’s dig at the Democrats might have backfired if they didn’t prove him to be right at every turn. They acted like petulant children, and even their normal allies saw it and called them out. It was stupid optics and stupid politics. One of the key lessons everybody should learn is that you should pick your battles. The Democrats picked one all right, but the one they were destined to lose. 

David Axelrod: “I think there were times when [Democrats] should’ve risen. I think what Al Green did was despicable.” pic.twitter.com/TFKj81Kjfx

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 5, 2025

The MSNBC crowd found darkness in every thing Trump said, but that is only because their souls are so black and filled with hatred for Trump, hatred for MAGA, hatred for things like freedom and open borders, that what they saw was a genuine existential threat to their most cherished hopes. 

Nicole Wallace, seeing DJ getting his dreams fulfilled by the President of the United States in the House Chamber in the United States Capitol in front of Congress and the world speaks of him committing suicide. 

This is genuinely the most repulsive comment I’ve heard in a very long time from anyone on television.

MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace politicizes young DJ’s moment at Trump’s speech:

“I hope he has a long life as a law enforcement officer, but I hope he never has to defend the United… pic.twitter.com/fcPA26djrx

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) March 5, 2025

How deranged with hatred would you have to be in order to come up with that spin? Or Rachel Maddows?

Rachel Maddow says it’s “disgusting“ that Trump celebrated a young child who battled cancer

Democrats are evil. pic.twitter.com/FNp2cTnW4N

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 5, 2025

The Left fears Americans loving America again, and Trump sure looks like he will make that happen. The Left is defined by its hatred for all things American. They speak of structural racism, “decolonization,” the inherent evils of capitalism, and the dark danger of MAGA. As Trump calls us to hope, they need us to hate. 

.@ScottJenningsKY: “The Democrats… couldn’t find it in their hearts to stand for objectively good things, including the 95-year-old mother of Marc Fogel, who got rescued from a Russian prison.” pic.twitter.com/SAuGvBqqwv

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 5, 2025

Democrats could have risen to the moment, but as usual the only room they could read was one filled with people driven by hatred of the hoi polloi and their tribune. Americans at home cheered on the president, while the Democrats heckled him, his guests, and stormed out of the room. 

Most viewers who tuned in say Trump’s speech made them feel “hopeful” and “proud.”

Most speech viewers described the president as “presidential, “inspiring,” and more “unifying” than “divisive.” A big majority also called it “entertaining.” pic.twitter.com/1HZoICd2uv

— CBS News Poll (@CBSNewsPoll) March 5, 2025

Presidential. Inspiring, Unifying. The left hated every moment. 

Tom Nichols having a normal one trying to justify his New Friends shunning a kid with terminal cancer pic.twitter.com/SCe3jm2CPk

— Sunny (@sunnyright) March 5, 2025

If this speech was unifying, as it was, then the people who protest it are the ones on the outs. As America comes together, at least for one night, the Democrats made sure to let us know that they find us all repulsive. 

Dana Perino: “The Democratic Party still has no common sense. They have no ideas and they have no heart. They couldn’t even stand for the most inspiring moments of the speech.” pic.twitter.com/XLQUW1Q1iZ

— Alex Pfeiffer (@Pfeiffer47) March 5, 2025

The irony is that Hakeem Jeffries had to work very hard to keep the Democrats’ negative reactions as muted as they were. Many in his caucus had been agitating to go all Al Green on Trump and disrupt the speech. He convinced most of them to be less disruptive and keep their objections down to holding stupid little signs and to sit on their hands. 

So at least the Democrats have that going for them. It could have been much, much worse for them. 

AMERICA FIRST. pic.twitter.com/icqycS0Oh3

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 5, 2025

A few non-deranged Democrats like Dan Turrentine saw how petty and hateful the Democrats were, but people like him are now on the fringes of the Democratic Party. Hatred is what defines the Democrats now.

I love my Party, but tonight was a new low. I get silence on this or that policy, and the raw politics of the base’s anger. But, for not a single D to stand to applaud a boy’s brave battle with cancer, or a man’s admission to West Point, was a classless disgrace.

And…

— dan turrentine (@danturrentine) March 5, 2025

He, too, dislikes Trump and would have loved to have his compatriots exploit political weaknesses, but they chose hate even over political advantage. 

I love my Party, but tonight was a new low.  I get silence on this or that policy, and the raw politics of the base’s anger. But, for not a single D to stand to applaud a boy’s brave battle with cancer, or a man’s admission to West Point, was a classless disgrace. And maddeningly, while overall Trump’s speech was politically good, there were political holes that could be exploited, juvenile taunts that voters hate, and comical lies. But much of that will be buried by our self-inflicted stupidity.

As the rest of America senses that the country is hurt but healing, Democrats want to pick at the wounds and up the pain for everybody. 

I doubt that voters will enjoy that.