Tag: SOTU

Sen. Katie Britt Defends Using Human Trafficking Story In Her SOTU Rebuttal

On Sunday, Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) upheld her misleading claim that pinned the blame on President Joe Biden’s border policies for a harrowing anecdote about a survivor of sex trafficking. During her State of the Union rebuttal, Britt appeared to inaccurately tie Biden’s administration with a woman who was sex trafficked at a young age. […]

Colin Jost Shuts Down Trump With ‘Grace’ Over Biden SOTU Feedback

“Weekend Update” co-host Colin Jost ripped Donald Trump’s skills as an orator after the former president claimed that President Joe Biden was having a “hard time” speaking during the State of the Union address Thursday. Jost, in this weekend’s edition of the “SNL” news segment, referred to Trump as a “current reverse mortgage applicant” before […]

Scarlett Johansson Spoofs Katie Britt’s Weird SOTU Rebuttal

Credit: NBC/SNL Saturday Night Live‘s cold open was indeed what many had asked for: a biting parody of Alabama Sen. Katie Britt’s cringey rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address Thursday. SNL‘s Britt, played by Scarlett Johansson, told viewers from the start that for the next few minutes, she would be “auditioning for […]

Biden Says He Shouldn’t Have Called Migrant ‘An Illegal’ In SOTU Speech

President Joe Biden said he regrets calling a migrant “an illegal” in his State of the Union speech. “I shouldn’t have used ‘illegal,’ it’s ‘undocumented,’” Biden told MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart in an interview airing Saturday night. During his Thursday speech, Biden mentioned Laken Riley, a nursing student allegedly killed by an undocumented immigrant. Riley’s death […]

Tapper Rips Hannity’s SOTU Response: ‘Pick a Lane’

CNN Jake Tapper on Friday criticized conservatives like Sean Hannity after the Fox News host, who has long attacked President Joe Biden as “Sleepy Joe,” said the president was too energetic during his State of the Union address. On The Lead, the CNN anchor noted that prior to Thursday’s address, Republicans had been saying that […]

Buttigieg hits back at Speaker Johnson’s criticism of Biden’s SOTU address

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg fired back Friday at House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) criticism that President Biden’s State of the Union address was “hyperpartisan” and “vitriolic.” During a Friday morning appearance on “CNN This Morning,” Buttigieg said some of Johnson’s comments were “literally false,” ticking off bipartisan legislation that Biden passed through Congress and […]