(The Center Square) – President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address Thursday night drew fiery responses from Republicans, who called out much of the speech as being out of touch with reality.
U.S. Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., responded to Biden’s address on behalf of the GOP. During her response, Britt blasted Biden for inflation, the southern border crisis, and more.
“Like so many families across America, my family and I just watched President Biden’s State of the Union Address from our living room and what we saw was a performance from a permanent politician who has actually been in office longer than I’ve been alive,” Britt, 42, said in a video online filmed from her kitchen. “One thing was clear, though, Biden just doesn’t get it. He’s out of touch.”
The political party in opposition to the sitting president typically releases a short rebuttal of the sitting president directly after his remarks. Britt went on to hit Biden on the border crisis, where human trafficking and fentanyl has become a major issue. More than 11 million illegal immigrants have entered the U.S. since Biden took office.
“President Biden inherited the most secure border of all time, but minutes after taking office he suspended all deportations, he halted construction of the border wall, and he announced a plan to give amnesty to millions,” she said. “We know that President Biden didn’t just create this border crisis. He invited it with 94 executive actions in his first 100 days.”
Britt also hit Biden for the significantly higher cost of living and the highest credit card debt in decades.
“The American people are scraping by while President Biden proudly proclaims that Bidenomics is working,” she said. “Goodness, y’all. Bless his heart. We know better.”
Britt also touched on public safety, blasting Democrats for soft-on-crime policies and the “Defund the Police” movement before moving on to Biden’s deadly and chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Israel-Gaza and Ukraine-Russia wars.
Former President Donald Trump, who is likely to face Biden in the November presidential election in a rematch of 2020, released a string of social media posts before, during, and after Biden’s remarks.
“There is very little that Joe Biden can say that can mitigate the damage he has done to our Country. We are under a MIGRANT INVASION the likes of which has never been witnessed in World History,” Trump wrote on TruthSocial, his social media site. “Migrant Crime is rampant, and he just doesn’t want to do anything about it. AMAZING!”
Biden’s speech touched on a wide variety of topics, from the economy to the border crisis to Ukraine to Gaza to climate change to cancer research and other issues. Biden repeatedly attacked Republicans and Trump for the border, Jan. 6 and more.
“That may be the Angriest, Least Compassionate, and Worst State of the Union Speech ever made,” Trump continued. “It was an Embarrassment to our Country!”
During his remarks, Biden repeatedly called Trump and his Republican supporters a threat to Democracy, comparing the threat to the Civil War. That comment drew one of Trump’s strongest responses.
“JOE BIDEN IS A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY!” Trump wrote on TruthSocial. “HE WEAPONIZED GOVERNMENT AGAINST HIS OPPONENT – DIDN’T TALK ABOUT THAT, NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE!”
Trump also hammered Biden on the border, an issue he has focused heavily on in this campaign.
“There is nothing he can say tonight that can absolve him from letting 15 million people into our Country illegally,” Trump said. “He’ll probably blame me, but I had the Safest Border in the History of our Country, so that won’t go very far!”
Trump faces essentially no opposition in the party’s nomination race after former Ambassador and Gov. Nikki Haley bowed out of the race Wednesday after losing 14 out of 15 primary states by wide margins on Super Tuesday, cementing Trump’s frontrunner status.
Meanwhile, Republicans on X, formerly known as Twitter, gave their own response to Biden’s speech.
“The Real State of the Union: Every American who walks down the aisle of a grocery store or fills up at the gas pump has felt the impact of Biden’s failed economy,” U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, wrote on X, referring to the 17% increase in inflation since Biden took office. “Joe Biden is responsible for tanking our economy.”
In one point of the speech, Biden said the vaccine ended COVID, to which Trump responded, pointing out he spearheaded operation Warp Speed, which hastened development of the vaccine.
“The Pandemic no longer controls our lives,” Trump wrote on TruthSocial. ‘The Vaccines that saved us from COVID are now being used to help beat Cancer – Turning setback into comeback!’ YOU’RE WELCOME, JOE, NINE MONTH APPROVAL TIME VS. 12 YEARS THAT IT WOULD HAVE TAKEN YOU!”
Trump also attacked Biden for what didn’t make it into the speech.
“Why doesn’t he bring up East Palestine and the other Towns all throughout America that he has left behind, and destroyed with Inflation?” Trump said.
The Constitution requires that the president update Congress on the State of the Union “He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses,”,,,,,nothing about updating, then blame game re-scripting the country on the failures of a Biden destroyed Democrat partisan political party with more time blaming Trump and others for his own governing failures, than spoken suggested solutions to the very problems he created. If the purpose of the State of the union message is to unite the country in a common purpose, Joe as usual delivered the complete opposite of what he promised,,,,just more preludes of what is about to come during his current campaign for re-election. His past is prologue. We would have been better served had THE PEOPLE marched en-masse in PEACEFUL protest, on a captive captured audience of just about every withered gathered political government branch of a democrat dying American tree of liberty, and prevented them from leaving the building until a balanced budget was produced, and a united statement issued guaranteeing our Constitutional freedoms to freely think, speak in honest elections are to be preserved. How they can all smile, shake hands and clap each other on the back is beyond hysterical and as confused as Joe’s brain.
I honestly wonder, has ANY PRESIDENT not started his speech with “THE STATE OF THE UNION IS STRONG”???
The democrat, Sociallist, Communist party President, Joe Biden never had such a gathering of ( Sycophants as he gathered before he gave The State of The Union Speech, It was too much it almost made one sick to witness.
Ndtanhu might be thinkinging like this Quote express so well about democrat, Joe Biden’ s help” With Friends Like That, Who Needs Enemies.” Joey Adams
Now the democrt, Socialist,/Communist party has joined Russia/China,/ against America, we find this Quote by Suntzu quite fitting,” To Fight and Conqurer in all your Battles is not Supreme Excellence, Supreme Excellence consists in breaking The Enemy’s Resistance Without Fighting.”
Republicans Vs Democrats, ” Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate *****, While thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, Pray, do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that of course, they are many in number; or that, afterall, they are other the little, shriveled, Meager, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.
Edmund Burke
Every time I clicked on the speech, before I totally stopped watching, Biden was ranting & yelling like a banshee.
From what little I watched, he was so unnecessarily antagonistic, belligerent & angry acting I’m thinking they must have shot him up with some meth or pcp.
Or maybe I just really can’t stand the lying little creep & his Marxist Globalism Dem Party.
And like i called it, after almost every sentence, the dems gave him a standing ovation.
Democrat president, Joe Biden, State Of The Union Speech,” With AGE Comes WISDOM but Sometimes AGE Comes ALONG.
A-Z Quotes- Oscar Wilde
” THE DEMOCRAT PARTY HATES AMERICA,” by Mark Levin
“Illegal immigrants are just ( Undocumented democrat VOTERS…”
THat’s honestly how they SEE them these days.
“ In politics, nothing happens by accident, if it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”
Theodore Roosevelt
TIK-TOK IS CHINA’S ” Trojan HORSE INSIDE AMERICA’S OPEN BORDERS
Keep the pressure up, and don’t give this piece of garbage an inch.
“One thing was clear, though, Biden just doesn’t get it. He’s out of touch.”
Keep in mind that this Joe Beijing OBiden is just a corrupt, demented puppet to his masters.
This speech was written for him by the lying Democrat Party speech writers. Puppet Joe Beijing OBiden just memorized and read what he was coached to say. 99% of the speech was lies, cons and deceptions. Notice how the “useful idiot” Democrats thought Joe Beijing OBiden’s State of the Union speech was great. While the rational We the People thought it was lies, cons, deceptions and political propaganda.
The lies, cons, deceptions, hypocrisy, and treachery of this treasonous, woke, socialist Democrat Party cabal know no bounds.
Everybody knew that democrat President, Joe Biden, was just a (FIGUREHEAD,) for those behind him like Barack H. OBAMA, Burnie Sanders, Van JONES, The CLINTIONS, And of course Joe Biden’s wife, Doctor Jill BIDEN.
Merrian Webster Dictionary ( Figurehead, ) -A leader in name only- A HEAD OR Chief, As OF A COUNTRY OR Organization WITH LITTLE OR NO AUTHORTATIVE POWER.”
I didn’t care for Senator Britt’s rebuttal. It felt like she was talking to mothers of kindergartners or soccer moms. What was needed was a tough, no-nonsense approach exposing Biden’s lies in his speech. It was cringeworthy and hard to watch. This was a fail. As was Biden’s speech.
jeff dunham could have been better with his biden puppet/ walter.
Angry Joe was obviously juiced up by his doctors. He was reading the screen without too many screw ups. Normally, he can’t complete a sentence without stuttering.
“ In politics, nothing happens by accident, if it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”
Theodore Roosevelt
State of the Union? It was just another angry rant by a dark and senile old man. Yes, he is for Freedom to kill the newborn, maim children, commit crimes without consequences, invade the country, steal taxpayer funds, etc, etc, etc, ad infinitum.
Yes, Special Councel, Hur, said, ” Joe Biden RETAINED, CLASSIFED DOCUMENTS,” in his garage.