Democratic lawmakers booed Trump’s speech. The American people loved it.

President Donald Trump highlighted his administration’s accomplishments so far and identified next steps for the “renewal of the American dream” in an emotional Tuesday address to a joint session of Congress. As expected, the Democratic lawmakers who actually bothered to show up did their best to childishly disrupt Trump’s speech.

Dressed in various protest costumes, congressional Democrats — whose approval rating hit an all-time low of 21% last month — heckled the president; booed his proposals to make life better for Americans; raised placards emblazoned with broad accusations and general condemnations; and refused to applaud throughout the speech, even when Trump helped a terminally ill boy realize his lifelong dream and honored the country.

To the extent that they listened to it, it was clear that Democrats did not enjoy the speech. The American people, on the other hand, apparently loved it.

According to a CBS News/YouGov survey of 1,207 American adults who watched the speech, 76% said they approved of Trump’s remarks. Only 23% said they disapproved.

‘It was a speech for the American people.’

A supermajority of respondents described Trump as “inspiring,” “entertaining,” and “presidential.” While 62% characterized the president as “unifying” in his speech, a minority of respondents said that Trump was “divisive” — a term that the liberal media decided to run with Tuesday night.

Sixty-three percent of respondents said that Trump spent a lot of time discussing issues they cared about, and 28% said he spent a little time on issues important to them.

Whereas congressional Democrats — whose disapproval rating is 68%, according to a recent Quinnipiac poll — were visibly enraged by the speech, 68% of Americans surveyed told the pollsters that the speech made them hopeful and 54% said it made them feel proud. Only 16% of respondents said that the speech made them feel angry.

Before his removal by the sergeant at arms for repeated interruptions — a removal 76% of respondents said they approved of — Democratic Rep. Al Green of Texas shouted that Trump lacked a mandate, even though the president won the popular vote, beat his opponent by 86 Electoral College votes, and now enjoys relatively strong approval ratings.

The CBS News/YouGov poll provided additional indications that Green is wrong and that Americans are largely on board the Trump train.

Seventy-seven percent of respondents signaled support both for Trump’s plans for cutting waste in government spending and for securing the border. When asked about Trump’s plans regarding the Ukraine-Russia conflict, 73% signaled approval. A majority, 65%, also indicated they supported Trump’s tariff strategy.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) provided an insight into why Trump’s speech may have resonated with the American public but not with Democratic lawmakers, noting early Wednesday, “President Trump’s speech wasn’t a speech for the mainstream media, it was a speech for the American people.”

“The way Democrats behaved was unserious and embarrassing. The contrast between our forward looking vision and their temper tantrums was on display for all of America to see,” added Johnson.

Conservative normalcy advocate Robby Starbuck tweeted, “Democrats sat through the whole thing smug as can be while dishonoring the heroic people Trump highlighted and protesting the speech. Dumbest strategy of all time.”

Democrats hinted at another departure from reality, characterizing the speech as a failure and Trump’s remarks as fringe.

Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin — a former CIA analyst aggrieved on behalf of the bureaucratic dead weight the Trump administration has cut loose — suggested in Democrats’ “rebuttal” to Trump’s speech that were Trump in office in the 1980s, he “would have lost us the Cold War”; that the president has pitted Americans against each other; and that Trump is making government more responsive to Americans’ needs in a “reckless way.”

Ken Martin, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, characterized the speech as a failure from an unpopular president, stating, “Instead of using his Joint Address to offer solutions or rehabilitate his image for the American people, who — after only six weeks — have lost confidence in his presidency, he instead rehashed old grievances and evaded responsibility.”

Democrat Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.) suggested that “President Trump’s address this evening laid bare a cynical and profoundly dangerous approach to America’s global leadership” and that his popular proposals were “dangerous.”

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