There Are Two Distinct Reasons Why Democrats and the Media Lost Their Minds Over Trump’s Speech Tonight

by Mike LaChance Jul. 16, 2026 9:30 pm115 Comments

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Trump’s speech tonight set off a special kind of crazy among Democrats and members of the media. We all expect their reactions to remarks from Trump to be animated by their Trump Derangement Syndrome, but in this case it began before the speech even aired.

Some Democrats, like AOC, even urged networks not to air it and a few of them, CNN, NBC, and ABC, complied. It is impossible to imagine such a thing happening under Obama. Any network that failed to carry a speech by Obama would have been branded racist at least and/or treasonous at worst.

Chuck Schumer, other Democrats, and some media talking heads rushed to define what the speech would be about and what that really meant, before Trump had uttered a word. They wanted to define it in people’s minds before it even took place.

The simple question hanging in the air is, why? Why did they all have this meltdown over this particular speech? And why did some networks refuse to air it?

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There are two reasons.

First, the most obvious reason, is that they did not want people to hear the message. They knew that Trump was going to raise questions about voting integrity and our elections and that is a message that the left does not want amplified in any way.

They don’t want Americans to be reminded of the utterly corrupt election fraud we all recently witnessed in the Los Angeles mayoral race, where the left was able to remove the Republican candidate from the ballot by using mail-in ballots that came in after election day.

They don’t want people to recall that in 2020, Joe Biden somehow, supposedly got more votes than Barack Obama got in 2008 or 2012, despite being an historic candidate who had been hyped by the media as the answer to all of America’s problems.

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They rely on systems like mail-in ballots and ballot harvesting to win elections. It’s how they defy the will of the people by simply going around them. It’s a useful system for them and they don’t want that apple cart overturned.

The second and less obvious reason they acted out and in the case of the media, blocked the speech, is because they simply don’t like it when Trump reminds the country that he is the President of the United States.

It’s the same reason they have acted like spoiled children during every single one of Trump’s state of the union addresses. Trump is in his second term and they are still, desperately trying to pretend that his election didn’t happen and that everything will go back to ‘normal’ after he is no longer in office. They do not care why voters wanted Trump, they just want him gone and cannot stand any reminder that he was put there in reaction to their failures.

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After Trump’s first election victory in 2016, many people on the left even began a social media campaign declaring, this is not normal.

They should know that better than anyone. They have not behaved normally since that night.