Fox’s Brit Hume Calls Trump’s Address To Congress ‘The Most Partisan Speech I’ve Ever Heard a President Give in This Kind of Setting’

Fox News Chief Political Analyst Brit Hume heaped several superlatives on President Donald Trump’s address to Congress on Tuesday night, calling it “the most partisan” and “the most effective” presidential speech before Congress.

Trump broke the record for the longest address to a joint session of Congress, clocking in at one hour and 40 minutes. Drama began before the speech did, as a Democratic member held up an anti-Trump sign that was grabbed by a Republican lawmaker who then threw it into the air.

The speech itself was a raucous affair, as early on Rep. Al Green (D-TX) stood and shouted at Trump. After a warning from Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Green was escorted from the chamber after he refused to take his seat. In his address, Trump pushed the debunked claim that millions of dead people are on Social Security. Democrats also mocked Trump for saying that “the days of being ruled by unelected bureaucrats is over” by pointing to his guest in the room, White House adviser Elon Musk, who has been initiating mass layoffs within the federal government.

After the speech wrapped up, Hume offered his instant reaction:

This was the most boisterous, the longest, the most partisan speech I’ve ever heard a president give in this kind of setting. And I go back about maybe 50 years on this. I also think it may have been the most effective. If you ever doubted that Donald Trump is the colossus, the political colossus of our time and our nation, this night and this speech should’ve put that to rest. The Democrats seem to be falling into trap after trap as he recognized people and celebrated the people he pointed to in the gallery and their stories in the Democrats sat glumly on their hands through all of that. It was a terrible look. Al Green’s attempt to disrupt the speech was a bad look for the Democrats. This was pretty powerful stuff, politically speaking, as powerful as I think I’ve heard.”

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