Trump Addresses the Nation tonight at 8:00 PM Eastern. Here’s a 44-point scorecard.
Handy Dandy Scorecard of Key Ideas
- Best military operation in history
- Trump the best president in history
- Gasoline prices will come down
- Jet fuel
- The strait will be open soon
- Iran desperate for a deal.
- Inflation is Biden’s fault
- Sleepy Joe
- Hegseth
- Rubbio
- Terrible allies
- Leaving NATO
- UK (In a bad way)
- Spain (In a bad way)
- Italy (In a bad way)
- Germany (In a bad way)
- France (In a bad way)
- United Arab Emirates (In a good way)
- Israel (In a good way)
- The war is over and we achieved all of our goals
- The war was Biden’s fault
- The war was Obama’s fault
- I stopped 8 wars. No other president did that
- I deserve the Nobel peace prize
- Trump-Kennedy Center
- The new East Wing will be beautiful
- Beautiful ballroom
- Activist Courts
- The Supreme Court was wrong on tariffs
- The Supreme Court may be wrong on Birthright Citizenship too. I hope not.
- Need to pass the SAVE Act to save the country
- 80 percent of the nation wants voter ID
- More military spending
- Budget Reconciliation
- Senator Thune
- Senator Mitch McConnell
- House Speaker Mike Johnson
- DHS Funding
- Steel
- Aluminum
- AI
- ICE
- The moon
- NO Mention of Epstein
Please print this out and get some popcorn ready tonight. Check all of the lines as you hear them.
Addendum: I Accidentally left Canada off the list.
Any predictions on how many of my 44 points I get correct?
Someone keep score. It’s a beautiful night and I am headed out for photography.
These would make for great bingo cards. Or for a great drinking game…take a shot every time you hear the Orange Julius (Caesar) mention one.
Death by alcohol poisoning.
That’s why I’m NOT watching. Talk about buzz kill.
I copied and pasted into excel and will take a crack at it. not sure I will make it through it and my family may force me to switch the channel if he goes on for too long as he can be wont to do.
My bingo money is on 44/44. The better question is who yells bingo first.
Your 44 points are farking hilarious. I think you’ll get 41. I don’t think he’ll say Sleepy Joe. And he’ll probably forget two of the others. I’ll await the synopsis. I can’t stand to hear him.
20 minutes, totally focused on Iran with stock market and drill baby drill and a few other snippets, also spent the first bit talking about the moon.
My bingo card had 1,2,3,5,6, 18-22, and 43.
Nothing on SAVE, birthright or SCOTUS items. Nothing on any of the politicians in your list.
You might argue that he went after the NATO nations with his ” countries must grab the straight and cherish it” jibberish rhetoric, so maybe 13-17 if you squint. No threats to leave NATO.
other fun items not on the bingo card in no particular order:
Venezuela victory lap
47 years of Iran ‘terrah’
Obama gave Iran cash, green green cash
Obama s deal would have let them have a nuclear bomb by now
objectives are simple and clear – Navy eliminated, hurting Air Force and missiles, and industrial base
US has strongest economy in history
US strongest military in history, rebuilt by……ME
US has “hottest” country in the world with no inflation (his use of ‘hottest country” always makes me laugh. It’s like he’s talking about the hottest model on the catwalk or some such).
stock market at records
We don’t need ME gas thanks to drill baby drill. we have plenty for you Europe.
lots of drivel on the great big beautiful bill, economy will be roaring any day, big tax returns, blah blah blah
in 2-3 weeks it will be over after we bomb them back to the stone age
regime change happened because of us, no regime change planned but we achieved it anyway
“What Should We Expect from Trump’s Address to the Nation Tonight?” Well, I think that you, Mish, have summed it up rather well – bullshit.
Trump Offers No Timeline Or Path Forward In Meandering Iran War Address
I didn’t watch the speech, but saw a summary and it was pretty much what I expected.
I am repeatedly amazed at how markets keep expecting good news about the war.
Today, I was buying a lot of the oil stocks that I have been selling into strength recently. They dropped 3-8% today on optimism that Trump would end the war and the strait of Hormuz would soon open.
And that is after he keeps saying he doesn’t care if the strait reopens. It isn’t his problem.
Speaking of a waste of air
Helium balloon quantities now limited at the Dollar store–2 per customer
That’s too bad, it’s been my happy idle thought to buy a bunch of balloons to put on my mailbox in the event that a certain someone drops dead suddenly.
You do know this is the final fork in the US reputation
Stuck, stuck, stuck…
What an effn moron
2 more weeks (I’m looking at you, healthcare plan)
Stocks down, bonds up, oil up
I guarantee you–price and export controls in the works
The moon shot was kind of cool.
Sorry, I’m not all that religious but isn’t having a speech like this on the first night of Passover kind of disrespectful?
He’s goyim… he don’t matter.
It’s right there in the Book of Armaments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOrgLj9lOwk
I didn’t listen, sorry some other stuff to do. After I look at the headlines – a few more weeks at a billion dollars a day. It’s the Irains fault. Everyone else should have listened to me. Just put my head in my hands and think…This is how you make America great.
Trump showed up in person at the supreme court and attempted to stare down the members of the court to impress upon them to rule in his favor. This evening he’s going to stare down the American people via the government media to try to convince us of something.
It did not work, in either case.
Didn’t watch the clown but did keep an eye on bonds and all yields are up across the board.
https://www.cnbc.com/bonds/
This day deserves my trademark taglines.
“It’s Trump turtles all the way down and inflation all the way up!”™
Do worry, Trump will find a way to make things even worse.™
On 27 Feb 2026, did US sovereign debt requirements, covertly, exceed the ability of the global macroeconomic GDP activity to support it?
B y fractal analysis from the Covid US sovereign debt interest rate lows, 27 Feb 2026 was a deterministic inflection point for the US Sovereign Debt Market. On 27 Feb 2026, did US sovereign debt requirements, covertly, exceed the ability of the global macroeconomic GDP activity to support it?
Was Trump picked (and the timing of the Israeli-Trump war-crime war picked/manipulated) – as the ultimate blundering, thoughtless, careless, clumsiest of all bulls-in-all-china-shops and as the supremely blindest of all narcissistic … fall guys … was Trump picked and manipulated by the people who exquisitely understand the global asset debt macroeconomic system as the deserving fall guy? Those people in the know desperately needed/need a fall guy to be clearly identified, highlighted, and blamed for a predetermined deterministic significant destabilization of US sovereign debt solvency … Time will shortly tell…
finally some good news!! https://apnews.com/article/hershey-reeses-chocolate-peanut-butter-cups-recipe-1c17247e190eb03952e1c197b6f872ce
We launched a few guys at the moon today too.
Funny how nobody cares. Such things used to be a big deal.
I care more about the continued erosion of my standard of living due to inflation, the national debt that is unsustainable, and all my social security confiscations, er, “contributions,” not being at least returned to me when I retire, and a host of other things than creating a moon base. Fuck the moon.
Just wasting more money. Space exploration can wait, space ain’t going anywhere and if it is ain’t nothing we can do about it. Just a welfare program for the filthy rich.
You got me excited for a moment there. I thought maybe someone posted their recipe.
The reason Hersey changed the formula in the first place is due to inflation and in an effort to control costs. So given that we are still living in a debt-based, fiat monetary regime, expect the next tactic to be reducing the weight of each product and still charging the same price. This is how we get to the end state envisioned by Jefferson:
“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered….”
Starts out with the WMD story er um Nucs! The Nucs I destroyed? They were gonna use em!
Good gawd what a blowhard! Only WWF fans could buy this shit…
You have to suspend all critical thinking and suspend reality to even stand a chance of following him.
Help Mr. Wizard!
OMG, he’s flailing!
Like an orange walrus that’s off his meds…
Soon it will be immigrants eating our pets again.
Faux News should write him some better, better and I mean way better schtick.
WWF and the remaining MAGA cultists.
Trump caused the Strait Of Hormuz to close, but he will blame Europe for causing the closure. I’m not sure how Trump will support the argument, I just know he’s going to make it. /s
I expect this whole mess will lead to a financial market crash on the scale of Covid in 2020. The masters of the universe are doing everything they can to stop people from panicking, but nothing will stop what’s coming shortly. Brace for impact.
How about:
“Iran was in the Epstein files just look at all the “uranium dating” they’ve done!”
Trump is like Baron Harkonnen in Dune. He’s bloated, blathering, insane, corrupt, and a self-serving sadist. Whatever he says can be viewed through that lens.
MAGA voted for Caesar but got Caligula.
“Today Hegseth gave me this red button. He says I can push it at any time to end the war.”
Push. {Fart noise}
“It wasn’t supposed to do that.”
Don’t expect something surprising …..Just more spin of …..Forever Lies………Iran will know to not trust a word of it.
I imagine we will hear obliterated alot, with a few decimateds thrown in for good measure
Like nobody’s ever seen! Unbelievable!
You forgot Sharpies lol
I expect the whole thing to be an April’s fool joke.
Ironically, even though he won’t say it it likely is a BS speech where in reality every bragging claim state,ent SHOULD end with saying “April Fools”!
And the joke is on us the people.
More lies, deceit and verbal vomit for sure.