Roughly 27.8 million viewers watched Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, Feb. 24. The SOTU address was down 12% in viewing from 31.45 million from Trump’s last SOTU address. Source: Newsweek.
Biden’s SOTU address in 2020 beat Trump’s SOTU address in 2026 with 38.2 million viewers. Source: Newsweek.
Trump’s SOTU address was laden with misleading claims on the economy, jobs, inflation, crime , immigration and other subjects. Source: FactCheck.org.
Also Trump’s SOTU address was short on reliable information and again riddled with lies and exaggerations. Trump claimed to have ended eight wars, which in fact some were never wars and others ended actually on their own. Source: FactCheck.org.
At the time of Trump’s SOTU he claimed that gasoline prices were “now below $2.30 a gallon in most states, and in some places gasoline prices are $1.99 per gallon.” Point in fact: Not one state has had an average below $2.30 per gallon. Source: American Automobile Association.
Trump claimed in his SOTU address that illegal immigrants were migrating to the U.S. from prisons and mental institutions and are the ones causing the murders in the U.S. when data shows that U.S. born citizens are more likely to be the murderers than the immigrants. These facts were clarified on Feb. 25, 2026, by FactCheck.org.
There has never been a president who so rudely acted at an SOTU address than Trump when he called the Democrats “crazy” because they chose to defy his toxic agenda.
The Democrats chose not to stand and applaud Trump’s lies, exaggerations and rambling.
To quote Trump: “Our nation is back bigger, better, richer and stronger than ever.”
Trump also said, “A short time ago we were a dead country. Now we are the hottest country anywhere in the world.” I will be polite and say not true in both quotes.
Trump claims that Americans will now pay the lowest prices anywhere in the world for drugs, but there is no evidence of a widespread decline in drug prices. Source: FactCheck.org.
Trump claims that the flow of fentanyl coming across our borders is down by 56% in one year, but there are no facts to this claim.
Trump claimed that there is cheating in our elections without any evidence of the same.
I could go on and on about Trump’s SOTU address riddled with exaggerations and lies, but I think you see from the above facts by the reliable sources that I mentioned that the list of lies goes on and on.
People can only stomach so many exaggerations, misinformation and lies before they don’t believe what the leaders have to say.
The American people will have to decide at the polls where they stand about the State of the Union after Trump’s SOTU address.
Lois Eisenberg
Valencia
