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Speaker 1: Back to the State of the Union address. It's happening tonight.

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Speaker 1: Some of the main themes that are expected to be

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Speaker 1: covered by Donald Trump the economy and jobs. He's going

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Speaker 1: to highlight job growth, manufacturing investment, promoting tax policy and

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Speaker 1: deregulation efforts, the big beautiful Bill. Right. How much you

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Speaker 1: want to bet he's going to frame the economy as

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Speaker 1: rebounding strongly under his leadership, I'll take.

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Speaker 2: It a step farther than that.

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Speaker 1: I'll bet it's going to guarantee you.

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Speaker 2: I'll bet that Trump says it's the greatest economy ever.

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Speaker 2: No president is led a nation with an economy like this.

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Speaker 1: He did say he won affordability. I'm guessing he's also

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Speaker 1: going to talk about immigration and border security. He's going

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Speaker 1: to emphasize all his successes at the border. Will he

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Speaker 1: call for expanded deportation and additional border funding. Probably energy

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Speaker 1: and America First policies. It's going to push for expanded

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Speaker 1: domestic oil and gas production.

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Speaker 2: All of those things sound wonderful and great, and I'm

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Speaker 2: sure it'll be in a lot of ways a typical

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Speaker 2: State of the Union speech, And in a lot of

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Speaker 2: ways it'll be a typical Donald Trump State of the

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Speaker 2: Union speech. He'll use a lot of hyperbole, talk about

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Speaker 2: how various aspects, like the economy, it's the greatest of

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Speaker 2: all time. He'll call himself the greatest president of all time.

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Speaker 2: We've never had so much peace. What he really needs

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Speaker 2: to do and I look, I don't believe for one

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Speaker 2: second Donald Trump is going to do this, But what

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Speaker 2: he really needs to do is kind of highlight the

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Speaker 2: things that he has truly done well that you know,

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Speaker 2: even Democrats could agree, Okay, yes this was done and

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Speaker 2: accomplished at this degree and at this level. Shut down

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Speaker 2: the border, southern border. Absolutely nobody can argue with the

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Speaker 2: fact that that is a major change. And by the way,

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Speaker 2: that's an eighty twenty issue. Eighty percent of the country

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Speaker 2: wants a lockdown southern border. Great win, there, be honest

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Speaker 2: about it. And then number two, he's going to talk

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Speaker 2: about deportations and yeah, we've had some good deportations. And

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Speaker 2: then he's going to talk about his foreign policy, and

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Speaker 2: he'll talk a little bit about how, you know, we

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Speaker 2: stood with Israel and we're tough on Iran last year,

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Speaker 2: and how we took out that narco terrorist Maduro in

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Speaker 2: Venezuela wonderful. Have there been any other real, true, honest accomplishments,

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Speaker 2: serious accomplishments in his first year beyond those?

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Speaker 1: Well, I think he will talk about foreign policy. He's

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Speaker 1: going to address global conflicts and reaffirm a strong national

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Speaker 1: defense stance. But maybe he shouldn't be doing that because

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Speaker 1: according to a new poll that was conducted by SSRs,

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Speaker 1: foreign policy is the least thing people want to hear about.

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Speaker 1: Only two percent of people say they want to hear

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Speaker 1: about that, followed by crime and safety at three percent.

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Speaker 1: Healthcare is seven percent, which surprises me. The state of

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Speaker 1: US democracy only eleven percent of people want to hear

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Speaker 1: about that. Immigration thirteen percent, the top concern of everyone.

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Speaker 1: Fifty seven percent of people want to hear him talk

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Speaker 1: about this, you know it. It's the economy and the

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Speaker 1: cost of living.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And to be fair, I did miss one big

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Speaker 2: victory that Donald Trump has had and you mentioned it there,

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Speaker 2: and that's crime, because we've had the data that shows that,

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Speaker 2: you know, again, it's preliminary data for.

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Speaker 1: Twenty twenty fry security.

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Speaker 2: It does go with the border security, but he needs

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Speaker 2: to talk about those because that's an absolute win. And

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Speaker 2: shockingly Trump and his team are really not talking about

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Speaker 2: the massive decrease in violent crime. And we've talked about

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Speaker 2: the data here on this show the murder rate in

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Speaker 2: this country right now, and again it's preliminary data from

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, but it's looking spectacular. The murder rate

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Speaker 2: in this country the lowest of all time. But I

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Speaker 2: mean all the way back to nineteen hundred, one hundred

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Speaker 2: and twenty five years ago. That's a major accomplishment. Violent

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Speaker 2: crime across the board is down everywhere. And he can

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Speaker 2: sit here and say, yes, number one, that's border security.

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Speaker 2: Number two, it's because I've been deploying the National Guard

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Speaker 2: to the most violent cities around the country. Okay, great,

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Speaker 2: wonderful wins. Definitely talk about those. But the man's going

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Speaker 2: to talk for two hours, so we talk about a lot.

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Speaker 2: You know, he's going to talk about plenty of other stuff.

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Speaker 2: But what you just said, the most important issue was

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Speaker 2: a fifty seven percent.

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Speaker 1: Fifty seven percent economy cost of living.

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Speaker 2: That's the most important thing. And by the way, second

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Speaker 2: place was like thirteen percent. So there's one issue on

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Speaker 2: everybody's mind tonight, and Donald Trump has not solved it.

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Speaker 2: It's the economy. Is essentially in about the same shape

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Speaker 2: as it was under the last four years with Joe

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Speaker 2: Biden for the most part, or certainly the last year

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Speaker 2: or two under Joe Biden. And that's everybody's biggest concern.

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Speaker 2: And for him, he's got to roll out some sort

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Speaker 2: of a real plan and specific initiatives that he wants

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Speaker 2: to take that he will explain and talk about how

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Speaker 2: that is going to make life more affordable for Americans.

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Speaker 1: So Representative Miller Meeks, she's from Iowa, Republican. She says,

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Speaker 1: the State of the Union address will be about energy.

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Speaker 3: Well first and foremost, I'm going to say unleashing American

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Speaker 3: energy dominance. So American energy dominance, homegrown American energy, bringing

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Speaker 3: fuel costs down. So if you recall, gasoline prices went

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Speaker 3: in Iowa almost as high as five dollars a gallon

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Speaker 3: in twenty twenty two. Now I can find gasoline for

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Speaker 3: two dollars and nine cents. Actually it was even less

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Speaker 3: expensive than that. And if you recall about sixty percent

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Speaker 3: of food cost or energy costs, so bringing down the

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Speaker 3: price of energy is also helping to bring down food

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Speaker 3: cost as well. So I think American energy dominance, homegrown

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Speaker 3: American energy very important. As we know, that was something

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Speaker 3: for fifty years the United States had been trying to do.

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Speaker 1: So you might recall back in December, Donald Trump said

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Speaker 1: the word affordability was a con job by Democrats. No,

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Speaker 1: it's what everybody wants. And he needs to come right

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Speaker 1: out of the gate with that.

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Speaker 2: And it's interesting, and she went into this a little

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Speaker 2: bit in that clip we just heard right there, and Okay,

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Speaker 2: if Donald Trump wants to talk about energy tonight, that's great, wonderful,

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Speaker 2: but you have to connect the dots for the average American. Great,

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Speaker 2: oil's cheaper, or we're gonna get more energy, or we're

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Speaker 2: gonna produce nuclear or drill baby, drill whatever. And she

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Speaker 2: goes into it a little bit about there, what does

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Speaker 2: that mean for me, the average everyday American. Okay, my

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Speaker 2: utility bills will go down.

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Speaker 1: Wonderful. Great.

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Speaker 2: I'd like to hear it off to a good start,

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Speaker 2: because everything in our country is shipped on a truck

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Speaker 2: using diesel fuel. The more oil we have available, the

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Speaker 2: more we rEFInd that. I'll bring gas prices down. All right,

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Speaker 2: now we're talking these are real, honest things that affect

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Speaker 2: me day to day. So Donald Trump, if he's if

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Speaker 2: he's like like she mentioned, he's gonna put the focus

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Speaker 2: on energy. That's great, but he's got to connect those

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Speaker 2: dots and bring it back to how that's going to

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Speaker 2: lower prices for average, everyday American