12 Glaring Omissions, Contradictions and Lies Bernie Sanders Spotted in Trump's Address

[madokie]

The Vermont senator slammed the president's speech in a video response.

Former Kentucky governor Steve Beshear issued a formal Democratic response to Trump's address to Congress Tuesday. But the most blistering reply may belong to Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who took to Facebook shortly thereafter. "I wanted to say a few words about what [Trump] didn't say, because when you analyze the speech sometimes what is more important is what somebody does not say as opposed to what they actually say," he began.


1. Social Security and Medicare

"At a time when over half of all older Americans have no retirement savings, I did not hear President Trump say one word, not one word about Social Security or Medicare," Sanders pointed out.

"During the campaign, as we all remember, President Trump promised over and over and over again that he would not cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid. But in his first address [to Congress], he didn't even mention Social Security or Medicare once, not a single time."

While Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin insisted the programs would not be touched in an interview this past weekend, President Trump's budget director, Mick Mulvaney, has defended such cuts.

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[Rhiannon12866]

1. K&R! Thank you! It's about time!

We keep hearing how "presidential" his speech was, just because he didn't start ranting and used more than one syllable words. The bar has never been set lower and I can't help remembering at the abuse President Obama took from Joe "You Lie!" Wilson! Kudos to Bernie for taking this abomination seriously and giving us specifics!

[FailureToCommunicate]

2. Bernie must have seen the other envelope: the media fawned all over his oscar worthy

performance, proclaimed him a winner.