Eighteen Minutes of Desperation: Fact‑Checking Trump’s Year‑End Address

This video breaks down Donald Trump’s year‑end address, which landed less like a presidential update and more like 18 minutes of televised desperation. Instead of a sober accounting of his second‑term record, viewers were treated to an angry old man yelling at the country to believe a pile of invented talking points, delivered just coherently enough to show he knows he is in trouble. Drawing on reporting from Steve Benen of The Rachel Maddow Show, the post walks through a “top ten” of Trump’s most brazen lies, from fantasy trillions in investment and an imaginary 25‑million‑person “invasion” to made‑up drops in prices for turkey, gas, eggs, and prescription drugs. Along the way, it highlights his confusion about basic numbers, his ongoing need to rewrite his election history, and his insistence that record crime and chaos exist where they do not. If you did not catch the speech or the live Substack analysis, this is your one‑stop, fact‑checked recap—and a reminder that surviving this presidency happens one minute, one hour, one day, and yes, one YouTube video at a time.