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Schumer Slams Trump For 'Fluff'-Filled 'State Of Delusion' Address

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) dismissed President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech as an empty ego trip, which failed to touch on Americans’ day-to-day struggles during a morning-after debrief on MS NOW Wednesday.

Describing the interminable 108-minute speech as a “state of delusion,” the veteran Democrat knocked Trump’s historically long national address as “a bunch of lies” buffered by pure “fluff.”

“He loves patting himself on the back,” Schumer told “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough, noting how the president did absolutely nothing to mention the ever-rising cost of living that has Americans at their wits’ end.

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President Donald Trump's Tuesday State of the Union speech dragged on for a record-breaking 108 minutes.

“I’m paying 10% more for meat. My health care bills are going up, and Donald Trump isn’t even talking about it,” he said.

Schumer also scoffed at Trump for using Team USA’s gold-medal-winning hockey team as a prop to puff himself up, remarking, “He had so little good to say about what he’s doing that he had to spend so much of the time talking about really true American heroes that he had nothing to do with.”

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“This speech was an utter failure for Donald Trump,” he continued. “It was a lot of hype. It was a lot of fluff. But when you’re having a rough time paying the bills and you hear your president mocking you because of that, you get angry.”

“This speech was a disaster for Donald Trump because he’s in such a bubble,” Schumer went on, noting the president “provided no path” towards solving America’s affordability crisis and that there was “just a lot of ego and back-patting” in his remarks.