Tonight: President Trump to Deliver First State of the Union Speech in His Second Term

The agenda. The results. President Donald J. Trump’s State of the Union address. Settle in, for  his is a long list of accomplishments.

Tonight President Trump will give State of Union discussing record low unemployment, rising wages, homeownership, destroying global terrorists and highest US optimism levels. (Charles Payne)

A number of traitorous Democrats are skipping the speech, including Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), whom the Trump Justice Department has investigated for alleged mortgage fraud, though the chamber is not likely to have empty seats. The criminals are boycotting. Seems appropriate. They hate the President because they hate the country.

AP: One year back in office, Trump has emerged as a president defying conventional expectations (AP).

That’s about as much as we can agree with the AP report.

The administration teased the speech with a series of videos:

The State of the Union is strong because our border is the most secure in the HISTORY of our nation. “Sleep well, America, because we’re keeping America safe (The White House).

The State of the Union is strong because our border is the most secure in the HISTORY of our nation.

"Sleep well, America, because we're keeping America safe." 🔥 pic.twitter.com/yigPn7wHs1

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) February 23, 2026

And: The State of the Union is STRONG because America is RESPECTED again on the world stage. Peace through strength (The White House).

The State of the Union is STRONG because America is RESPECTED again on the world stage.

🇺🇸 Peace through strength. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/RdNnRjrZ08

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) February 23, 2026

And: The State of the Union is STRONG—President Trump has CUT waste, fraud, and abuse. And we’re just getting started (The White House).

The State of the Union is STRONG—President Trump has CUT waste, fraud, and abuse.

And we're just getting started. 🔥 pic.twitter.com/GbRUiV5phL

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) February 23, 2026

And: The State of the Union is STRONG because America is safer. Thanks to President Trump, law & order is BACK (The White House).

The State of the Union is STRONG because America is safer. 🇺🇸

Thanks to President Trump, law & order is BACK. pic.twitter.com/RqghTmF1kZ

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) February 21, 2026

Trump to honor Laken Riley and other 'angel families' ahead of State of the Union address https://t.co/ivBqMLreXP pic.twitter.com/VDnZglkYtD

— New York Post (@nypost) February 22, 2026

The president speaks at 9:00 p.m. ET.

The United States men's hockey team was invited to the State of the Union address and to the White House by President Donald Trump after winning the gold medal at the Milan Cortina Olympics, the program's first in 46 years. https://t.co/anLiI0aFcA pic.twitter.com/0vBz4H1vqX

— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) February 23, 2026

NY Post: “It’s going to be a long speech, because we have so much to talk about,” Trump said at the White House Monday of what will be his sixth annual address to Congress — after speaking for 1 hour and 39 minutes last year.

“We have a country that’s now doing well. We have the greatest economy we’ve ever had,” he said, previewing his emphasis on cost-of-living issues.

Trump is expected to recite positive news from his first year back in office, including lower inflation, more affordable rent and mortgage costs, record-high stock values and generous new tax refunds for seniors, car-buyers and people who earn overtime and tips.

He’s also likely to tout feats such as brokering a peace deal in Gaza, ending the migrant crisis on the southern border, capturing Venezuela’s dictator Nicolas Maduro and flattening Iranian nuclear sites.

But the combative chief executive will speak to a tense room with Supreme Court justices expected in the front row just four days after they struck down his “reciprocal” and fentanyl tariffs — casting pending trade deals into doubt and likely forcing the Treasury to return $175 billion.

Trump could hardly contain his fury on Friday, ripping three Democrat-nominated justices as a “disgrace to our nation” and saying two of his own nominees who voted against him were an embarrassment to their families and “very unpatriotic and disloyal to our Constitution.”

There’s intense buzz in Washington, meanwhile, about the possibility that Democrats will heckle him — particularly over his past relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and his administration’s congressionally mandated release of files on the notorious sex-trafficker’s case.

‘Affordability and the economy’

The conventional wisdom going into the address is that Trump should stay disciplined in communicating to the public that he is working to address their concerns about affordability issues.

“Republicans want the president and the White House to focus more on affordability and the economy,” a GOP congressional official told The Post.

“Republicans like policy-wise what Trump is doing. They just want him to be focused more on an economic message.”

A Republican campaign source working on midterm races urged Trump to keep it simple and avoid repeating claims that “affordability” is a Democratic hoax or saying he has already “won” on the economy.

Trump “needs to focus on selling his accomplishments and talk about what Republicans have done for affordability,” the campaign source said.

“I don’t think he has to get too creative here. And don’t focus on SCOTUS too much with tariffs — that’s about it.”