"This was not America's State of the Union, it was Donald Trump's state of delusion. He sat up there, you know, he has a huge ego, he loves patting himself on the back, but the average American was sitting there saying, I'm paying 6% more for electricity. I'm paying 10% more for meat. My health care bills are going up, and Donald Trump isn't even talking about it."
"This speech was a disaster for Donald Trump because he's in such a bubble. He had so little good to say about what he's doing that he had to spend so much of the time talking about really true American heroes that he had nothing to do with. It was a lot of hype. It was a lot of fluff."
"For instance, he says manufacturing jobs have gone way up – they're down 100,000 since he took office. He says the job creation is up – job creation is the lowest it's been in the non-recessionary year since 2003."
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer harshly criticized President Trump's State of the Union address, calling it Trump's "state of delusion" rather than America's state of the union. Schumer argued the speech was filled with ego, fluff, and lies while ignoring the real economic hardships facing average Americans, including rising costs for electricity, meat, and healthcare. He contended Trump spent excessive time discussing unrelated topics like a hockey team's victory instead of addressing substantive policy issues. Schumer pointed out Trump's low polling numbers and claimed the president's economic claims were false, citing that manufacturing jobs have declined by 100,000 and job creation remains at its lowest non-recessionary level since 2003.
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