President Donald Trump slammed the alleged fraud linked to the Somali community in Minnesota during his State of the Union address on Tuesday, garnering loud pushback from Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).
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Tuesday, during her network's coverage of the State of the Union address, host Kaitlan Collins said President Donald Trump became "increasingly irritated" during the speech.
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President Donald Trump announced during his State of the Union address that the U.S. women's hockey team will also be visiting the White House "soon" after their male counterparts.
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Tuesday on MS NOW's special coverage of the State of the Union address, host Rachel Maddow said President Donald Trump was "wound up and weird."
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During President Donald Trump's first State of the Union (SOTU) address in his second term, the president said he is overseeing the "most secure border in American history."
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The president told Americans that their electricity prices will drop if they live near Big Tech data centers.
During his State of the Union address, President Trump spoke on the electrical bills of Americans who live near hubs where tech companies are quickly building AI infrastructure that require massive amounts of energy.
'They're going to produce their own electricity.'
Over the last two years, companies like Amazon, Apple, and Meta have all announced plans to build sprawling campuses that will require dedicated power sources or risk overwhelming local grids. In some cases, states have begun planning small modular nuclear reactors to supplement power and therefore attract tech companies (like Amazon). Where these reactors aren't built, the consumer will pay downstream.
During the State of the Union, Trump explained surging energy costs from heightened demand is a big concern for Americans in those areas, and he plans to do something about it.
"Tonight, I'm pleased to announce that I have negotiated the new rate payer protection pledge," Trump began.
"We're telling the major tech companies that they have the obligation to provide for their own power needs."
"They can build their own power plants as part of their factory so that no one's prices will go up, and in many cases, prices of electricity will go down for the community, and very substantially down," the president continued. "This is a unique strategy never used in this country before."
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"I'm telling them, they can build their own plant," Trump added after saying the current electrical grids could never handle the power that is needed.
"They're going to produce their own electricity. It will ensure the company's ability to get electricity, while at the same time, lowering prices of electricity for you."
Two weeks prior, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) announced the Guaranteeing Rate Insulation from Data Centers Act, aimed at preventing price increases for Americans via data centers.
According to Hawley's website, the act will "guarantee consumers [are] first priority" on the grid, ensuring new data centers get their power from separate sources, while establishing new transparency measures around data center utility usage.
"Data centers never sleep," said James Poulos, editorial director of Return. "They eat energy to run the computers, and they drink water to cool the computers."
The more the public uses AI services and apps, he explained, "The more energy they require."
"Trump is moving to make assurances that, whatever your relationship to AI, you won't be priced as a consumer out of local energy markets wherever data centers appear."
A Department of War contractor told Return that Trump's plan could turn what is a potential strain on the grid into a "long-term advantage" if handled correctly.
"Instead of massive AI data centers pulling huge amounts of electricity from an already aging system and driving up costs for everyday customers, requiring major tech companies like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon to build and supply their own power forces them to take responsibility for the energy they consume," explained Tyler Saltsman, CEO of EdgeRunner AI.
Saltsman added, "That means private money, not taxpayer dollars, would fund new power plants, whether natural gas, nuclear, or large-scale renewables, which could ease pressure on the public grid and even add extra supply in some regions."
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The Trump administration has been incredibly open about its pursuits in artificial intelligence in the president's second term.
Last November, the Department of Energy launched Genesis Mission as a "national effort to accelerate the application of AI for transformative scientific discovery focused on pressing challenges."
Then in December, the federal government launched the Tech Force and asked for the public to apply for 1,000 advanced roles. The job listings procured a whopping 25,000 applications.
This has all transpired as the administration has partnered with different American AI companies — including Elon Musk's xAI — to help with the handling of government operations as well as the aforementioned goal of American AI supremacy.
The latter has been of particular focus for government agencies like the Department of War, which has been focused on getting ahead of the Chinese communist government, which has appeared to have made leaps and bounds in AI over the last year.
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President Donald Trump dinged Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) during his State of the Union address on Tuesday, while calling for a ban on congressional stock trading.
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President Donald Trump vowed to reassert American dominance against the "murderous" cartels in Mexico during the State of the Union Tuesday.
"As president, I will make peace wherever I can, but I will never hesitate to confront threats to America wherever we must," Trump said.
'We're also restoring American security and dominance.'
Trump's remarks come just days after Mexico went up in flames following the death of Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera Cervantes, one of the country's "most sinister cartel kingpins."
Oseguera Cervantes was the head of the notorious Jalisco New Generation cartel, whose vast and violent criminal enterprises prompted the Trump administration to classify it as a terrorist organization.
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"We're also restoring American security and dominance in the Western Hemisphere, acting to secure our national interests and defend our country from violence, drugs, terrorism, and foreign interference," Trump said.
"For years, large swaths of territory in our region, including large parts of Mexico, ... have been controlled by murderous drug cartels. That's why I designated these cartels as foreign terrorist organizations."
The cartel boss was captured by Mexican special forces on Sunday with the help of complementary American intelligence in Jalisco, igniting chaos across the country. In the moments after his elimination, footage showed a Costco engulfed in flames as well as firefights and roadblocks in the streets across Mexico.
The chaos prompted a shelter-in-place advisory from the State Department, leaving many tourists no other option but to hunker down at their resorts.
Trump's warnings to cartels was not unique to Mexico. Tuesday night, the president reflected on the military campaign he led against alleged Venezuelan drug boats leading up to Nicolas Maduro's capture, joking that his intervention impacted the drug business and the fishing business.
"Nobody wants to go fishing anymore!" he said.
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President Donald Trump touted a long list of his administration's accomplishments to begin his State of the Union address before Congress on Tuesday.
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President Donald Trump used his State of the Union address on February 24, 2026, to formally launch what he called a war on fraud, placing Vice President JD Vance in charge of the effort.
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During his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Donald Trump referred to some of the historic peace deals that he has brokered between warring nations, then turned his attention to Iran and its "sinister ambitions."
The president suggested that Iranians want to make a deal but have yet to say "those secret words: We will never have a nuclear weapon."
"My preference is to solve this problem through diplomacy," said the president, "but one thing is certain: I will never allow the world's number-one sponsor of terror, which they are by far, to have a nuclear weapon. Can't let that happen — and no nation should ever doubt America's resolve."
Trump noted further, "I will make peace wherever I can, but I will never hesitate to confront threats to America wherever we must."
Recent polling indicates that American voters are not particularly keen on getting embroiled in another Middle Eastern conflict. Their elected representatives, on the other hand, appeared receptive to the president's discussion of possible military actions against the Shiite country.
In recent weeks, Trump has assembled the greatest U.S. military air presence in the Middle East since the 2003 Iraq invasion.
'It will be something easily won.'
Negotiators from Tehran and the U.S. are scheduled to convene in Geneva on Thursday for what some suspect might be the last attempt at a deal regarding Iran's nuclear program.
A regional source familiar with the talks told CNN, "This Thursday will decide everything — a war or a deal."
A potential sticking point might be whether the Iranians are willing to commit to putting off uranium enrichment entirely.
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Abbas Araghchi, the country's foreign minister, recently suggested that is a nonstarter, as the county has invested heavily in the technology and its progress to date is supposedly a matter of national pride.
Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, noted last week, "The Americans say, ‘Let's negotiate over your nuclear energy, and the result of the negotiation is supposed to be that you do not have this energy!'"
"If that’s the case, there is no room for negotiation," continued Khamenei.
Trump has reportedly received several briefings on military options, including decapitation strikes on Iran's political and military leaders with the goal of regime change and/or strikes on nuclear and ballistic-missile facilities.
Multiple reports have alleged that Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine and other military leaders warned the president and top officials in such briefings that a military campaign against Tehran carries significant risks, including another protracted conflict.
Trump noted in a Truth Social post on Monday, however, that "if a decision is made on going against Iran at a Military level, it is [Caine's] opinion that it will be something easily won."
"Everything that has been written about a potential War with Iran has been written incorrectly, and purposefully so," wrote Trump.
The president added, "I am the one that makes the decision, I would rather have a Deal than not but, if we don’t make a Deal, it will be a very bad day for that Country and, very sadly, its people, because they are great and wonderful, and something like this should never have happened to them."
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President Donald Trump, during Tuesday's State of the Union address, called on Congress to enact his most favored nation program to keep drug prices low.
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Democratic Rep. Al Green of Texas briefly interrupted the State of the Union address Tuesday and was quickly kicked out of the U.S. House of Representatives chamber.
The Democrat was ushered out of the chamber, and one Republican grabbed at the sign on his way out.
The president later said that he did not see the video before it was posted.
Green held up a banner reading, "Black people aren't apes," in an apparent reference to a video depicting former President Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes that was posted to the president's Truth Social account.
"These people are crazy! I am telling you, they're crazy!" the president later said in the address while pointing to Democrats.
Green interrupted the president's address last year before Congress and was escorted out at that time as well.
"You have no mandate!" he yelled at one point, while shaking his cane at the president.
Many Democratic members of Congress later joined Republicans in a vote to censure him for the incident. The resolution passed 224-198.
Republicans and Democrats both condemned the anti-Obama video, including Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina. The president later said that he did not see the video before it was posted and blamed a staffer for the incident.
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Green blamed racism for his ejection after the interruption last year.
"There is invidious discrimination in the House of Representatives. I’m a son of the segregated South. The rights that the Constitution recognized for me — my friends and neighbors deny it. I had to sit in the back of the bus, the balcony of the movie, drink from a colored water fountain," he said in an interview.
"When the speaker decided that I would be removed and then there was this motion," he added, "this resolution to censure me, it became obvious to me that I was not being treated as others were, and candidly speaking, it is invidious discrimination."
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Democrats respond to President Donald Trump's State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, February 24.
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