This Just In — The State of our Union is much stronger than it feels right now and not in the ways that our current president would like.
On Tuesday night, the nation endured nearly two hours of false claims of economic achievement, international leadership and domestic security. As the 47th president stood before a joint session of Congress, he put on display for us and the world a person who lacks the maturity and temperament to lead the nation.
And those things are not going to come with more time in the job.
President Donald Trump exits the House Chamber after delivering the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times via AP, Pool)
It’s also clear that there’s yet another substantial problem for this increasingly unpopular president. In summary, it’s clear that his Justice Department has covered up credible accusations of his committing sexual assault and battery of a child. Accusations are not irrefutable proof, but they are evidence and should be investigated.
The Attorney General and her deputy both have said that there was not evidence in the Epstein files that pointed to the president committing a crime. That is something that Attorney General Bondi said emphatically under oath in Congressional testimony and it simply isn’t true. That’s perjury.
We’ve all become accustomed to things like this continuing to slide due to the lack of political will among the GOP in Congress, but my naive little self says that a coverup of a previous investigation (which as halted) of the rape and violent assault of a teenage girl might, in an election year, be just the thing to break the fever of the mesmerized GOP members of the Trump cult.
The critical thing is that our checks and balances are (at least in part) functioning. The Supreme Court not only put the kibosh on Trump’s very damaging tariffs, but four justices appeared at Tuesday’s speech. Three of them voted in the majority. That had to be … uncomfortable.
Trump of course responded to their decision by applying new global tariffs under a different legal basis. Set your egg timer for those getting spiked also. The president restated his laughable vision for these tariffs — that they would replace the income tax system, which was introduced in 1913 with the ratification of the 16th Amendment.
That took a LOT of consent from the electorate and would be a huge mountain to climb to repeal, but Mr. T doesn’t care about that. The entire exercise has value only as a distraction to drive the news cycle and manipulate markets.
Americans all across the country are standing firm against the Gestapo tactics used by the Department of Homeland Security. There have been persistent, massive demonstrations nationally that show no sign of stopping and will likely grow as the weather warms. This is an unsustainable way to operate in a democratic society.
Here in Orange County, the pushback against some malicious disinformation in the Sheriff’s race has demonstrated our community’s political engagement and intolerance for falsehoods. Bravo.
Likewise, the administration is having little success in finding locations that will agree to be home to their proposed massive detention centers, requiring enormous infrastructure investment, environmental issues and economic strain wherever they might go. If you can’t get it built in Oklahoma …
Local municipalities are supporting their immigrant citizens (especially children) and using their power to protect elections – arguably the absolute most important work that we all have to do this year.
Last week, my husband and I popped into the Seymour Center and voted. I’m kind of sad to say there was no line to wait in, but overall, this was the very same process as the last many times I have voted. Simple. Accessible. Delightful.
Whatever your thoughts on who you should vote for, please get out there and fill in the bubble for your favorite candidate. Write in your own name if you want, just flex your muscle as a citizen and VOTE. That’s the radical thing to do. That’s the boss move to push back against people who would like to make us afraid to leave the house.
In a month, we will gather again for No Kings march (3/28/26). This will fall (and perhaps conflict with) in the midst of” March Madness” giving the term a whole new meaning.
Jean Bolduc is a freelance writer and the host of the Weekend Watercooler on 97.9 The Hill. She is the author of “African Americans of Durham & Orange Counties: An Oral History” (History Press, 2016) and has served on Orange County’s Human Relations Commission, The Alliance of AIDS Services-Carolina, the Orange County Housing Authority Board of Commissioners, and the Orange County Schools’ Equity Task Force. She was a featured columnist and reporter for the Chapel Hill Herald and the News & Observer.
Readers can reach Jean via email – jean@penandinc.com and via Twitter @JeanBolduc
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