Screaming, Yelling & Outrage as Dems Fall in Trump's SOTU Trap

0:00Previously on The Rubin. Blow out my brain if I. What's something that you always carry with you? Hot sauce. I want to see that buffalo wing sauce in there like what? You might say that he's jester gooning right there. Can't divide people. We can't win that play. We can't divide.

0:42All right, what's up, guys? I am Dave Rubin. This is The Rubin Report. It's February 25th, 2026. I have a feeling you know what today's program is about, but why don't you tell your friends about it? You can share, you can subscribe, you can tap that notification bell and all that good stuff. And yes, we are recapping the state of the union last night and Donald Trump really, I'll give you the bumper sticker. He just did a bang up job. It's what he's made for big moments and big speeches and selling America and going a little off the cuff. And of course, juxtaposing that with a Democrat party that what was it, what was the exact number?

1:2173 of them, I think, didn't show up at all. They held a counter event, they booed, they heckled. They generally just, anything that was pro-America, anything that is pro-America, they are just against. And let's just dive in because this clearly, this clearly was the moment of the entire night. Trump asked everyone in the building to stand up if you believe that the first duty of the American government is to protect US citizens. If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support. The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.

2:20Okay. Clever. What I say a moment ago, this is what Trump lives for. This is Trump at his best. That was a great little device that he used right there. The Democrats, I'm not a Democrat anymore. They've lost their minds, all that stuff that you know, right? But I'm just curious in the minds of the Democrats who actually showed up in a moment like that, are you for American citizens or are you for illegals? Why can't you stand up for that? That is not actually a direct, it's not a direct comment on ICE. It's not a direct comment on anything. It's broadly, what is the point of the US government?

3:06And is it for legal citizens or illegals? And they couldn't. And they scowled and they sat on their hands and Trump milked that freaking round of applause from the Republicans and all the sane people in that room. But there were some insane people. As I said, about 73 Democrats did not show up at all. Ilhan Omar, a woman who is caught in a massive Somali money laundering scheme, who came in to Congress worth basically nothing. Now she's worth$30 million, who married her brother in an illegal immigration scheme, who is, I would say, a de facto member of Hamas. We could continue. Here she is. Well, here's Trump firing back after she repeatedly interrupted him.

3:54Isn't that a shame? You should be ashamed of yourself not standing up. You should be ashamed of yourself. That is why I'm also asking you to end deadly sanctuary cities that protect the criminals and enact serious penalties for public officials who block the removal of criminal aliens, in many cases, drug lords, murderers all over our country. They're blocking the removal of these people out of our country. And you should be ashamed of yourself.

4:34Let me just be crystal clear on this one. More crystal clear than any Republican that you're going to see on TV today. Those two should be kicked out of Congress, period. I think you absolutely can make an argument that they should be naturalized and deported altogether because it's clear that they coordinate with organizations that are terror supporters and everything else. But they should, at the very minimum, if the Democrats had anything remotely close to a sane party, at the very minimum, they would be censured. You'd have the leaders of the party putting out statements today saying that their behavior was reprehensible.

5:08You know, we'll do more on this in a moment, but Rashida Tlaib, next door, Hamas lady, she had a F ICE. I'm going to really try. The more that they're cursing, I'm going to do the reverse around here. I try to control it when I can, and sometimes I just can't control it, but I am going to try to control it in general a bit more because they're clearly going in that direction, and I'll offer a counterbalance to that. But she had an F ICE shirt. It's shown that the State of the Union is shown on network television. I'm pretty sure ABC, NBC, CBS, C-SPAN, et cetera. They could all be in trouble with the FCC because you're not allowed.

5:42Yeah, well, there it is. We'll show it to you right there. This is the internet. Also, interestingly, Ms. Hamas lady there, she has a release the files right there. Who was president before Trump this time? There was a guy, it was a pen, an old man, something, something Biden, remember him? They didn't care about those files then. Now Donald Trump comes in, releases three million of those files. And they put out stickers on their chest because they think they can somehow pin it on him. But anyway, they were heckling the entire time. Actually, I'm going to jump ahead here for a second, Connor. I want to read this tweet.

6:14I thought this was quite interesting. This guy by the name of Matt Van Swole, we've read some tweets of his over the last year or so, was a lefty, sort of similar political trajectory as me over the years. He was in the room last night and he wrote this. I don't know if y 'all could hear it on the TV, but she was heckling Trump 80 % of the time, just screaming random shit the entire time. It was insanely childish and unbelievably obnoxious. Her and Ilhan Omar acted like children, really wild to watch in person. So obviously he's talking about Rashida Tlaib. The internet came up with this image, which I think is a better version of what these two are.

6:47Yeah, they are just Muppets. They are just Muppets. They're the old guys in the Muppets. If you chop their genitals off and throw on some bad makeup and put one of them in a bag on her head. That's what they are. That's what they are. They are terrible, terrible people. They are awful Americans. They should not be members of Congress. They are here to destroy everything. And they are perfectly emblematic of what the Democrat Party has become. But don't take my word for it. If that was not true, then some Democrats today would be out there saying, you know what? Like, it would be so freaking easy for a decent moderate Democrat to get up there today.

7:27And maybe Fetterman will do it today. And say, you know, I disagree with Trump on the border and I disagree with Trump on this or that or big, beautiful bill or whatever it might be. But I do respect the office of the presidency and it's not the time nor place to be heckling him through 80 % of the speech and screaming things and wearing the F-bomb on your lapel over here and everything else, but none of them can do it because the crazies are running the show. So again, Trump's best moment, in some sense, his best moment was not just that he called them out on it. It's one thing to call them out on, a very obvious thing, like are you four Americans, American citizens, or are you four illegals?

8:07That was kind of obvious, but that he stood there, he milked the applause and looked at them, like the disdain he looked at them with is the disdain that every single one of us should have for them. Here's another moment, and it unfortunately involves those two clowns. This is Trump talking about how he helped reunite former Venezuelan prisoner of Maduro, Enrique Marque, with his family here in America. And you'll see at the end, Tlaib and Omar walking out during that. Uncle been released, but he is here tonight. We brought him over to celebrate his freedom with you in person. Enrique, please come down.

8:56So do you see what's happening here? We are reuniting people with their families who were suffering under a communist dictator. And that's the moment. If you saw it in the bottom portion of the screen, I think we would still love it. You can see the bottom portion of the screen. Yeah, there they are. That is Tlaib and Omar leaving because America reunited somebody who had American family with their brother who was suffering under the Venezuelan communist dictator. Okay, right before the big State of the Union, Polymarket asked this question, and of course the people were pretty clear in what they thought.

9:35Will anyone be kicked out during Trump's State of the Union address? 99 % chance. So yeah, it seemed like most people were saying somebody was going to do it. And of course, half man, half wolf, Al Green.

10:05the guy's just a buffoon he looks like the wolfman like he just like dude just a little bit you don't have to go crazy with the razor, but just like a little something. We could all get a little hair over here and you can get, I think it's a Norelco and two seconds every morning and it'll completely transform your life, bro. But of course, of course, and nobody thinks, yes, like walking around the side, you're so edgy. Like that's the best. That was his moment. That was his moment. And it was to tell us that black people aren't apes. Nobody thinks black people are apes. Maybe you guys do. I'm not really sure.

10:40Anyway, it continued. Now we'll get into a little bit of the media stuff around it and then we'll get back into the speech itself. But Sean Duffy went over on CNN after and Jake was asking him if that these people are crazy line was too much because Trump did several times. It seemed like it was off prompter when the Democrats were screaming or when they wouldn't stand for American citizens or anything else. He kept saying, these people are crazy. And it's one of those things that shows the magic of Trump because he's reading the speech, but he can read the room. That's what it is. He can literally read a speech, but then he can figuratively read a room and feel what's going on in there.

11:18And then he can translate that through the magic of the internet and the television to you. These people are crazy because that's what we're all thinking. Jake seemed to think that was a bit much. He said, quote, these people are crazy. I'm telling you they're crazy. I mean, but that's not something we ever heard from Obama or Biden from that stage. No, we never had a speaker rip up a speech either. But when you're saying issues like we're talking about trucking, we have, and this comes in my space, where you have states that are issuing driver's licenses to illegals, illegals who haven't been trained to drive an 80 ,000-pound truck on an American road.

11:53We have a little girl that has had her life impacted for the rest of her life, and she's five years old, and it was an illegal who hit her. I think the question becomes, why doesn't every Democrat stand up and go, no, we want well-qualified drivers on American roads? That's not partisan. We don't want illegals who can't speak the language, contrary to American law for decades, to not be on American roads. I think those are easy issues, Jake. Yeah, those are super easy issues. And if you're not on board, if you're not on the right side of those issues, you are crazy. I should mention Sean Duffy, by the way, he's transportation secretary.

12:28but Federer, but Tapper, you know, oh my God, he said these people are crazy. It's like, yeah. Remember when Nancy Pelosi ripped up the speech a couple of years ago? America, thank you very much. America, thank you very much. Like show me the versions where Republicans are doing this sort of thing. Now over the years, has there been any Republican that, who somebody did a couple of years ago, maybe we can try to figure out who heckled Biden. There was one guy that heckled Biden a couple of years ago, Marjorie Taylor Greene one year yelled out something. But these are, and I'm not defending that actually.

13:02I would prefer that everyone sit there quietly and you wanna give your press conference after, you wanna do all that, whatever. So I'm not defending her doing it or anything else, but it's not an entire party, an entire, do you like America? Meh, meh, meh, we don't. And as a matter of fact, there was only one, count him, one Democrat who actually shook Donald Trump's hand as he walked in. And yeah, you know who it is.

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15:08I'm very proud to say that during my time in office, both the first four years, and in particular this last year, there has been a tremendous renewal in religion, faith, Christianity, and belief in God. Commendous reunion. This is especially true among young people. And a big part of that had to do with my great friend, Charlie Kirk, a great guy. Great man.

15:44So, last year, Charlie was violently murdered by an assassin and martyred, really martyred for his beliefs. His wonderful wife, Erica, is with us tonight. Erica, please stand.

16:03Yeah, you know, it's interesting. I almost wanted Trump to do a little bit more about Charlie. You know, he hinted that young people are waking up because of Charlie and everything else. I almost wish there could have been a few more sentences there and that Charlie was so vital in keeping the alliance on the right together and all of those things. But in any event, it was a nice moment and glad to see Erika there and all of that. The other sort of interesting moment right after that, the woman that Erika was standing next to who was very visibly broken up was the mother of Irina Zarutska. And of course, Irina Zarutska is the young, beautiful woman from Ukraine who in August was murdered on the Charlotte light rail for being white.

16:52And we know that because that's exactly what that man said. And she bled out right there. I mean, that image should be seared into everyone's brain. Here is Trump honoring the life of Irina with another right there. We are honored to be joined tonight by a woman who's been through hell, Anya Zuretska. Last summer, 23-year-old Irina was riding home on the train when a deranged monster who had been arrested over a dozen times and was released through no cash bail stood up and viciously slashed a knife through her neck and body. no one will ever forget there were people on that train no one will ever forget the expression of terror on irena's face as she looked up at her attacker in the last seconds of her life she died instantly mrs zaretska tonight i promise you we will ensure justice for your magnificent daughter irena

17:56and again it's you know trump understands he understands television he understands how to use emotion and all of those things but that was real that was raw and i think trump means it and why do the democrats as i always tell you the democrats always know the names of the illegals rago garcia we love him and they never say anything about the victims they never say anything about lake and riley they never say anything about arena zarutska etc etc now here are two more This is wild. There were two American patriots who were shot in the back in D.C. in November of 2025 by an Afghan illegal. Do you remember this story?

18:33It was Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe and Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, who did not survive. Here is Trump giving them an award. So, Andrew, while you're up, now I'm going to ask a highly respected General James Seward to present Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe and the great family of Sarah Beckstrom with the award created by our late great president, George Washington himself. It's called the Purple Heart.

19:10All right, so Trump was, he was doing what he does, right? In some ways, he's like a game show host, but it was real and these were important stories and these are people that we should all know. And what was particularly nice about it, you have to remember, whatever it is, half the country or whatever that pays attention to mainstream media or doesn't watch all media, they don't even know these stories. They don't know that an Afghan illegal shot these two people and killed that woman. They barely know the story of Irina Zarutska, which, by the way, was completely buried by the mainstream media until in September when online media started covering it, right?

19:44God only knows what half the country thinks about Charlie Kirk. So it was important that he points out these specific people. It shows the human part of it. This was just a really beautiful moment. Here is First Lady Melania Trump awarding 100-year-old veteran Navy fighter pilot Royce Williams the Medal of Honor.

20:20I mean, just absolutely beautiful. A hundred years old, a true American hero. There's a moment right before that where Trump started speaking about him and you could tell he couldn't quite hear it. And then when he hears it, he just lights up. It's just so absolutely beautiful. But what was the standard Democrat take on this type of thing? Well, here's Nancy Pelosi on Trump honoring the veterans. What was your reaction to what you heard this evening? I thought the speech was lazy. You know, it's one thing to acknowledge patriotism and people getting well and everything when you have absolutely nothing to do with their courage or the rest.

20:54But you spend an hour and a half doing it. What is the state of the nation? Awful human being. What are you talking about? You have nothing to do with it. Donald Trump has closed our borders, which has helped stop some of the murderers from being here. Donald Trump has helped rebuild our military so it can do great things again, which it is doing under him. You don't like that he took a moment to honor a 100-year-old veteran? Just the bitterness. I'm telling you guys, it is not the Democrat Party. Every one of you watching this, you've still got Democrat family members. And what you must understand, what you have to tell them is this is a whale that is rotting from the inside.

21:38So on the outside, or it's a donkey. How about we'll do it that way. It's a donkey that is rotting from the outside. So on the outside, they're looking at the donkey and they're going, oh, that's just a donkey. What was the donkey's name in Winnie the Pooh? Eeyore? Was it Eeyore? So they're just looking at Eeyore and they're going, Eeyore looks just fine. But if you poke Eeyore, your fingers are going to go right through and what you're going to find is a horrific rotting carcass. I've been watching a lot of Winnie Pooh with the kids and I'm definitely not going to mention that later. Hope they're not watching today.

22:06This was an interesting moment because there was sort of a bipartisan blip for just a second. It will not last very long. But here is Trump saying something that is obvious, that everyone should be on board, which is that members of Congress and the Senate shouldn't be able to corruptly insider trade. And he did get some applause from some of the bad guys. Let's also ensure that members of Congress cannot corruptly profit from using insider information.

22:53All right, so that's pretty good. We shouldn't have the people who are setting the laws that get insider information about laws that affect business. They shouldn't be able to illegally profit from it. Now, it's interesting. Elizabeth Warren is applauding that. Elizabeth Warren was a professor at Harvard for a couple of years before she was a senator. And I would imagine a professor at Harvard, you're making six figures. I'm going to guess you make, I don't know, 150, 200 grand, something like that. Like it's a decent living. She's now worth it. It's hard to figure out the exact numbers, but according to the internet, she's probably worth around$60 million now.

23:30She's been a senator for 13 years. That's quite curious. Now, that's not as impressive as Ilhan Omar in two years getting 30 mil after having nothing, but it was nice to see her applauding that. And maybe she won all that money on an Indian gambling casino. Who the hell knows? Here now is Nancy Pelosi addressing the insider trading thing, because of course, most of it gets pointed to Nancy Pelosi, who's worth about$400 million. There was one moment, Madam Speaker, where he called you out specifically around, of course, congressional stock trading. What do you say back to him? I say back to him, as that's what members said, look at your own self.

24:12The inference he wants to draw is there was something wrong with that, which there wasn't. And if there was, people get prosecuted for it. For a long time now, we've been trying to pass this law. It doesn't have, now it has more support than it had before. And I, when - Elizabeth Warren stood up and applauded. Elizabeth Warren stood and applauded tonight when the president talked about it. Well, we all did. I did too. Nancy, with that 400 million get better denture grip, your teeth are about to fall out. I would imagine, how much does denture grip cost these days over at CBS? We're really checking the numbers today.

24:48I'm guessing you'd get denture grip for, you'd probably get a really solid extra strength denture grip. $12, lady, you've got 400 million. Now, interestingly, she's pretending she has nothing to do with any of this and we all applaud it and everything else. Can you throw this thing up here? There are many, many of these types. There are Twitter accounts and Facebook pages and all these things where they just basically track Nancy Pelosi's trades. And the woman, according to this, She's worth$586 million. Look at that. Her change while in Congress, she has made$465 million. I gotta fire my UBS guys.