Political Quotes

“Mr. President, the State of the Union Address was quite a performance by President Trump. Maybe one of the highlights of humor was when he focused on the Social Security Administration. Remember what he told us? There were 4.7 million ``Social Security members''--that is the term he used--4.7 million Social Security members who were between 100 and 109 years old. He went on to say that 1.3 million Social Security members were between the ages of 150 and 159 and that 130,000 were over the age of 160. These were the President's words. He goes on to talk about 1,039 between the ages of 220 and 229--even one who is a 360-year-old person. The place was rocking with laughter to think that a Federal Agency as important as Social Security could be defrauded by people claiming to be this age and still receiving checks--what a great joke, what a misrepresentation of the truth. What the President said was not true. It was misleading. It was overblown. It was inaccurate. In fact, it was just plain wrong. He delivered this address to a joint session of Congress to the American people--the one time each year when we are focused on the President's words--and he made these deliberate misrepresentations of the Social Security Administration. He claimed that the unelected billionaire, Elon Musk, and his DOGE boys had identified ``shocking levels of incompetence and probable fraud within Social Security.'' Mr.…”