The Stack: Trump’s Year One Reset and the Road to 2026
President Trump’s recent White House address served as a powerful reminder of just how much has positive change he has instituted in the past eleven months—and how much is at stake as America heads toward the 2026 midterm elections. In this Toddcast, Todd walks through Trump’s remarks on inflation, border security, crime, education, and foreign policy, framing the speech as an unofficial “year-in-review” before the formal State of the Union.
Todd explains why it’s easy for Americans to forget the chaos of the previous administration as the news cycle moves at breakneck speed, and why controlling the narrative matters now more than ever. From restoring border enforcement and reducing inflationary pressure to dismantling woke bureaucracy and reasserting American strength abroad, Trump’s speech outlines a clear contrast in leadership and priorities.
As the calendar turns toward a critical election year, today’s show connects policy outcomes, cultural realities, and constitutional principles—reminding listeners that progress can be undone if vigilance fades.
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The Todd Huff Show – December 19, 2025
Host: Todd Huff
Todd Huff: Well, greetings, my friends, on this, which is, I guess, the last full week of the year, at least as far as I'm concerned.
Todd Huff: We've got Christmas next week, New Year's, the following week. So we won't be here that entire time, but we certainly will be here some of those days. But this is the last full week, and maybe the last full week for many of you as well.
Todd Huff: Time is, man. It's amazing how fast time goes the older that I get. So time goes fast. Time flies, as they say, when you're having fun, which, of course, you have when you tune in here, my friends.
Todd Huff: I want to listen. Wednesday evening, Trump gave a speech, and I want to play and talk about that today. That's what I want to focus on. Lots of things happening here across this nation, lots of newsworthy events.
Todd Huff: Lots of things that I think we want to try to talk about in as much depth as possible. And this is one of them, because I think it was a good speech. I've heard some, I guess, some analysis of the speech from the folks, like Jimmy Kimmel.
Todd Huff: Who said it was just Trump screaming. It's just crazy to me what these people hear. Projection is a real thing. So he certainly got a little bit animated, but nowhere near yelling. It's wild to me anyway.
Todd Huff: So I want to talk about that. I want to talk about really the progress that we've made in this nation, where we're headed as we turn the calendar into 2026, which, of course, is a midterm election year.
Todd Huff: There's a lot to look forward to in 2026, and there's actually a lot of potential pitfalls as well, including that election, which is now just less than 11 months away, which is crazy to think about.
Todd Huff: So that's the direction we're headed today, my friends. I appreciate you tuning in. Folks, I know you care about this country. You tune in here every day, you follow the news, you stay on top of what's happening.
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Todd Huff: All right. Let's begin here. I want to play, I just want to play this speech. I want to talk about it. President Trump standing between two Christmas trees in the White House.
Todd Huff: A portrait of President George Washington, which half of America doesn't know who that is. Have you ever seen some of these man on the street interviews, by the way?
Todd Huff: As I look at George Washington, I wonder how many of these people who could name you every single Kardashian in the bloodline, I wonder how many people know who George Washington is first of all.
Todd Huff: Just by putting his portrait up. I bet it would blow my mind. I don't want to know. I don't want to know how few people know who George Washington is just by showing his portrait.
Todd Huff: But even if you said, this is George Washington, how many people would know who that was? And by the way, this is one of the reasons, just the lack of knowledge and education.
Todd Huff: By the way, from the people, the people who tell us we need to pour more into public schooling produce kids that have no idea who the first president under our Constitution was.
Todd Huff: One of the great Americans, founding father, unanimous. Everybody wanted George Washington to be the president. In those days, the founders were all trying to find a way.
Todd Huff: They just assumed George Washington was going to be the president, the first president. And he was, of course. But anyway, that's the background here.
Todd Huff: Trump, of course, between two Christmas trees, got the American flag back there and everything else. He takes to the podium. Now, what's he really trying to do?
Todd Huff: Trump is, this is kind of like a State of the Union speech before the State of the Union speech is due. In fact, Trump will give his State of the Union speech sometime.
Todd Huff: Probably. It's usually February. They've moved it into March sometime. That was with Biden, though. They were trying to make us forget that he was supposed to give.
Todd Huff: A State of the Union because, you know, he really wasn't capable of doing that. But this is kind of like a precursor to that. It's like a year in review almost.
Todd Huff: And I think it's a good thing. I think it's a good thing, especially with everything going on in this country. I think this, what we've endured.
Todd Huff: You know, I compare what it was like. I've talked about and followed politics for a long time. For 30, 30 or 32, 33 years, something like that.
Todd Huff: And I compare the dialogue and discourse from 25 or 30 years ago to what it is today, or the number of competing headlines that we have today.
Todd Huff: Versus what those headlines were back in the 1990s, early 2000s. I'm not saying we didn't have problems by any stretch of the imagination.
Todd Huff: But now it has hit a fevered pitch. It is just off the charts as far as it goes. And it's easy to lose track of where we've come from.
Todd Huff: Because, friends, a lot of the ground that we lost as freedom loving Americans happened kind of when people weren't paying attention.
Todd Huff: Now, many of you were, especially those of you who are more seasoned in your years, like me. You would have seen these things coming.
Todd Huff: You remember talking about them at the time. But a lot of Americans were asleep at the wheel. They didn't even know they were at the wheel.
Todd Huff: They were apathetic. They were disconnected. I've shared before when my father-in-law retired and started watching the news on a regular basis. We started having more political discussions. He went from a guy that was kind of apathetic to politics.
Todd Huff: To one who wanted to talk about it virtually every time I saw him the whole time. That and the grandkids, of course. But he realized, you know, hey, I was busy. And I think a lot of Americans relate to this.
Todd Huff: He was busy. He was a single father raising a family, helping his kids go to college and all this sort of stuff, working. Worked the same job for 40-something years, I believe. Retired.
Todd Huff: And I think that's what a lot of people do. You know, as you become an adult, you have children, I mean, you get busy. And I remember as a college kid thinking I was busy.
Todd Huff: When I was playing football and taking 18 hours of class and doing whatever else I was doing at church or whatever. And I'm not saying I wasn't busy, but there's a new level of busy.
Todd Huff: A next level of busy when you've got kids in sports, you know, other activities, running businesses, managing a household, homeschooling and all that kind of stuff.
Todd Huff: It's a different level of busy to where it's easy to lose, I guess, complete, kind of lose the narrative sometimes, right? Your head's down, you're plowing ahead.
Todd Huff: And you're trying to keep things moving forward for your family, meet your responsibilities and all that. And I think a lot of people had been asleep at the wheel for a long time.
Todd Huff: Plus, we didn't have, you know, we didn't have the internet. The information wasn't out there. The information and the misinformation.
Todd Huff: The misinformation has always been out there. Heck, even Mark Twain. What did he say? I think it was Mark Twain who said if I don't read the paper, I'm uneducated.
Todd Huff: Or I forget the terms he used. Basically, I don't know what's happening. If I read the paper, I don't know what's happening either, basically, because they're lying to me.
Todd Huff: So there's always been that element out there. And it's been a big element no matter when we've, you know, grew up paying attention to the news and so forth.
Todd Huff: But anyway, Trump says, listen, I want to give a speech that kind of summarizes what's been going on for those of you who are busy.
Todd Huff: For those of you maybe who have been following, but there are so many things that we need to be concerned about. From the financial calamity in this nation.
Todd Huff: Our incredible debt, the inflation that we've endured, the open borders that we've dealt with, the threat of terrorism which we've had.
Todd Huff: Which, of course, we've seen in this recent Bondi Beach shooting in Australia. I mean, the list goes on and on. High inflation numbers that have driven things up.
Todd Huff: Trump's trying to, and his team and the Republicans are trying to deal with this. Lots of things to deal with. And so Trump says, I'm going to give you a speech.
Todd Huff: And I want to remind you of how much better things are than they were just 11 months ago. So he takes to the podium.
Todd Huff: That's his intention here. And I want to play this and I want to talk about it. And by the way, if you haven't seen it, and I don't, I won't get through all of this.
Todd Huff: But it will be the link will be on our website, toddhuffshow.com. Or you can go to the White House's YouTube page. It's there.
Todd Huff: Or you can Google it, whatever's easier for you if you want to watch the whole thing. I always watch these things on higher speeds.
Todd Huff: So it was an 18-minute speech. If you can listen to it at double time, it's nine minutes. So anyway, we won't do that to you here.
Todd Huff: But I will play it now. We'll talk about it. Trump giving a summary of what has happened, positively the direction that we're now on.
Todd Huff: Think, thank God, that we are on this direction towards cleaning up the colossal mess. Mismanagement and just intentional destruction.
Todd Huff: That's been put upon this country, placed upon this country by those who hate it or who are just completely inept in their abilities to manage it.
Todd Huff: So that being said, here's Trump taken to the podium to tell you, remind us what has been happening, what we're doing, where we're headed.
Donald Trump (Soundbite): America, 11 months ago, I inherited a mess, and I'm fixing it. When I took office, inflation was the worst in 48 years.
Donald Trump (Soundbite): And some would say in the history of our country, which caused prices to be higher than ever before, making life unaffordable for millions and millions of Americans.
Todd Huff: You know, by the way, the Democrats, I've touched on this briefly, for their 2026 midterm campaign. I read something that said that they're.
Todd Huff: I don't know if it'll be their slogan or if it's just kind of tongue in cheek because it's playing off of Trump's terminology.
Todd Huff: But make America affordable again, which is wild to me because all of this unaffordability came, like Trump is saying here.
Todd Huff: Prior to Trump coming into the White House. What we were subjected to under Biden's years were absolute economic mayhem.
Todd Huff: It was just everywhere you looked, it was just a mess. As Trump says, he's inherited a mess. He's trying to fix it.
Todd Huff: We've made some ground up in the past 11 months. By the way, you may have seen that inflation numbers are at 2.7%. That's lower than expected, although that's a little bit.
Todd Huff: There's a lot of question marks with that because those numbers are really only based on two weeks of data. We also didn't have numbers for October because of the government shutdown.
Todd Huff: That's impacted a lot of things. So there's a lot of question marks, but still, that's the lowest inflation number we've had since, I believe, March of 2021.
Todd Huff: Which is right when Trump was effectively leaving office the first time. It was January of 21 when he left office, but you get the idea.
Todd Huff: That's basically since Trump's last inflation numbers are lower than they've been since the last time Trump was in office. So we're heading in the right direction.
Todd Huff: In spite of what the left wants to tell you, what the Democrat Party wants to tell you for political purposes, we're heading in the right direction.
Todd Huff: Now, unfortunately, when it comes to inflation, just because you slow the rate of inflation, it doesn't mean prices come down.
Todd Huff: It means that the rate of increase basically is less, but your starting point is still the mess that was created.
Todd Huff: Now, there are other factors besides just inflation that led. I don't want to get into the technicalities of this.
Todd Huff: But inflation is a phenomenon that's created only by the federal government. It's uniform across the board.
Todd Huff: It's not saying that something increased in prices this percent in the field with food and this percent for gas.
Todd Huff: Yes, the prices may have fluctuated that much, but not everything that's tied to prices is said to be inflation.
Todd Huff: We've gotten lazy. We've gotten lazy as Americans, or maybe stupid as Americans, to where they talk to us as though any change in price is inflation.
Todd Huff: But that's not true. Price has changed. Inflation is specifically when the government produces, prints, so to speak, too much currency.
Todd Huff: Creates it digitally in today's world, just putting some numbers and dropping it into one of the bank's accounts.
Todd Huff: So that they can lend it or whatever. But the bottom line is, the bottom line is they create too much of it.
Todd Huff: That's what inflation is. It makes the dollar that's out there, the dollar that you're earning worth less.
Todd Huff: Not completely worthless, but heading in that direction. So Trump says I've inherited an economy that had a 48-year high on inflation.
Todd Huff: And that's the truth. And they've made tremendous gains in getting that under control. So let's continue listening to Trump here.
Donald Trump (Soundbite): This happened during a Democrat administration, and it's when we first began hearing the word affordability.
Donald Trump (Soundbite): Our border was open. And because of this, our country was being invaded by an army of 25 million people.
Donald Trump (Soundbite): Many who came from prisons and jails, mental institutions and insane asylums.
Donald Trump (Soundbite): They were drug dealers, gang members, and even 11,888 murderers, more than 50% of whom killed more than one person.
Donald Trump (Soundbite): This is what the Biden administration allowed to happen to our country. And it can never be allowed to happen again.
Todd Huff: He's exactly right. It's easy to forget. You know, politics moves. The narrative of the day, anyway, moves at the metaphorical speed of light.
Todd Huff: It's one thing after another. You may have followed the Brown shooting. You may have seen that they believe that the individual.
Todd Huff: The perpetrator, the shooter, was found in a storage unit having what they believe is a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Todd Huff: Believing, taking his own life. You may have followed that story. You may be following the story of the terrorist shooting.
Todd Huff: In Bondi Beach, Australia, which includes other threats that are in Australia, which we have other threats here as well.
Todd Huff: Which have come many times directly across our southern border. It is unbelievable, the damage, the disregard for the American people.
Todd Huff: The disregard for the safety of the American people that the previous administration had for this country.
Todd Huff: The absolute disdain simply for political convenience, whether that was to control the narrative or to show the world.
Todd Huff: How hospitable and how just kind and loving they were to people as they fluttered across the southern border.
Todd Huff: Which, of course, is one angle. But of course, the other angle is this is a political operation where they're trying.
Todd Huff: Well, to get more votes and to remake America. You know, when you bring people, take the race, ethnicity, all that stuff.
Todd Huff: And set it aside. I know in today's world a lot of people can't do that. I know you, of course, can, because you're thinkers.
Todd Huff: But, you know, if you take all that aside and you say at some point, if you're bringing people into this country, forget what they look like. If it helps, pretend that they're all white. It doesn't matter to me.
Todd Huff: But at some point, if you bring people into this country who don't understand this country, who want to bring whatever it is from their countries with them, the countries that they're fleeing, bring that into this country, it's not going to work.
Todd Huff: There's a reason that this country is what it is. There's something that it means to be American. There are foundational principles upon which this country has been built that is being eroded in an unimaginable way by just opening it up to people to come from around the world without any attempt at assimilation or education or anything like that.
Todd Huff: Then of course, on top of that, you don't teach your own citizens about this country. A lot of these high school courses are taught by leftists who hate this nation. Not every one, of course not.
Todd Huff: There's some America-loving teachers out there who teach civics and American history every day, but there's also those who are teaching the new version of American history out there.
Todd Huff: All the catchphrases of the day, right? And this is intentional. This is strategic. This is what the left needs to win elections. I shared with you the 2020 census included these numbers of people. There are states that would have other representatives, more representatives than they have today, if illegal immigrants were not factored into the mix.
Todd Huff: And there are states who have congressional districts that would not exist, congressional seats and electoral votes by that ad that they would not have if these folks were not counted in the census. This was an unmitigated disaster. It was strategic. It was intentional. This is how the left wants to win politically.
Todd Huff: This is how the left wants to recreate America, to be something that it was not intended to be. It was criminal what they were doing by having these open borders. Trump continues here on this, though. We had men playing in women's sports, transgender for everybody, crime at record levels with law enforcement and words such as that just absolutely forbidden.
Todd Huff: We had the worst trade deals ever made in our country, was laughed at from all over the world, but they're not laughing anymore. Over the past 11 months, we have brought more positive change to Washington than any administration in American history. That has never been anything like it, and I think most would agree.
Todd Huff: I was elected in a landslide, winning the popular vote and all seven swing states and everything else with a mandate to take on a sick and corrupt system that really just took the wealth from people and crushed the dreams of the American people. All true. For the last four years, the United States was ruled by politicians who fought only for insiders.
Todd Huff: Illegal aliens, career criminals, corporate lobbyists, prisoners, terrorists, and above all, foreign nations which took advantage of us at levels never seen before. They flooded your cities and towns with illegal aliens. They decimated your hard-earned savings. They indoctrinated your children with hate for America.
Todd Huff: Really. I mean, they just released a level of violent felons that we had never seen to prey on innocent people. They caused war. They caused mayhem. They caused a horrible situation all over the globe. But now you have a president who fights for the law-abiding, hardworking people of our country, the ones who make this nation run.
Todd Huff: Who make this nation work. And after just one year. All right, I gotta pause that, my friends. Gotta get to time out. We'll continue talking about this, but it's easy to forget how bad it was 11 months ago.
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Todd Huff: Welcome back, my friends. Sorry I had to jump off there so quickly in the last segment. I told Oz during the break there, it's hard to, when you're playing clips from Trump, and this is not an insult, it just humors me. His sentences run on sometimes. He's got a lot to say, keeps adding adjectives and descriptions.
Todd Huff: And maybe from time to time, a little chasing of a rabbit here or there, going off teleprompter from time to time, no doubt. And it's hard to know where to hit that break. I love it. I don't want you to misunderstand. I enjoy it. This is good stuff, what he's doing here.
Todd Huff: The American people absolutely need to hear it, and I want to continue going through this because this is, my friends, this is one of the things we have to do. I mean, communication is key in restoring America to her constitutional roots. So that's where we're headed. That is absolutely where we're headed.
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Todd Huff: And it's currently illegal in the state of Indiana. You can't get kratom here. And so I had someone message me and say, what's up with that? Well, first of all, just I'm Indiana-based in the sense that I'm from Indiana. But we're on 20-some stations around the country.
Todd Huff: So in fact, most of our listeners are not Hoosiers. A healthy chunk is Indiana, but a lot are not. So that's number one. So we have a national audience. Number two, Christopher's Organic Botanicals, they're trying to educate people on real kratom.
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Todd Huff: All right, so let's get back here to Trump's speech. I want to get to as much of this as we can. I'm going to pick up right where I left him last segment, kind of giving us a summary of where we've been, the risks of illegal immigration.
Todd Huff: He talked about the dangers of high inflation that were inflicted upon us by those in the Biden administration, the auto-pen administration. Trump continues here to remind people how far we've come in just 11 short months.
Donald Trump (Soundbite): In just 11 short months, we have achieved more than anyone could have imagined. Starting on day one, I took immediate action to stop the invasion of our southern border. For the past seven months, zero illegal aliens have been allowed into our country.
Donald Trump (Soundbite): A feat which everyone said was absolutely impossible. Do you remember when Joe Biden said that he needed Congress to pass legislation to help close the border?
Todd Huff: It's a great line. He was always blaming Congress and everyone else. As it turned out, we didn't need legislation. We just needed a new president. I love that line, by the way. He used that. If you remember earlier this year when they made the changes.
Todd Huff: Back in probably March, when the initial data started coming in, he said, look, we had a president tell us we needed new legislation. We didn't need new legislation. We just needed a new president. And I love that, by the way, so many of these things.
Todd Huff: Listen, everything that we, all the problems that we face in this country are certainly not political. They're certainly not. There's a lot of problems, my friends, within the American culture. I think the biggest problem we have, you know my stance on this.
Todd Huff: Is that Americans have turned their backs, not again, I'm talking collectively, I don't mean individually. You certainly could not, may not be in this group, but America, in a lot of ways, has turned its back on how this nation was founded.
Todd Huff: And more importantly, the biblical principles upon which are fundamental in this great nation. And we've turned our backs on those principles, on the word of God, on God himself.
Todd Huff: And listen, for those of us who have studied the Scriptures, I mean, it's not, there are patterns that you can see studying the Scriptures. And when people put themselves up to be enemies to the word of God.
Todd Huff: Or when people, when people who are his children turn their back on or stop making it a priority, that's not a good situation to find ourselves in.
Todd Huff: And I think that this nation more than anything needs a collective turning. Of course, we can't collectively turn. We individually turn, but lots of us turning towards the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Todd Huff: Towards the truth that we find in the Scriptures, allowing him to purify and sanctify us and change us. We've got a spiritual war that's waging in this country, a cultural battle.
Todd Huff: Not all these things are political. A lot of them are. There's no doubt politics becomes the battlefront. This is where a lot of these things are being fought.
Todd Huff: Not everything is good versus evil, but some of these things are. Some of these things absolutely are.
Todd Huff: And to watch as we've had a nation that's being led by people that have such a disregard for the rule of law, it's amazing to me.
Todd Huff: I did today's Todd Talk on this. Hannah Dugan. Judge Hannah Dugan was just convicted. Well, she was just found guilty, I think it was yesterday.
Todd Huff: This is the judge in Milwaukee, I believe, was trying to help an illegal alien get away from ICE, from being arrested and deported or whatever was to follow from that.
Todd Huff: And you have a judge that's in that that's doing that. And for some people, it's shocking to think that there are judges who would interfere with the enforcement of the law.
Todd Huff: But we had presidents, my friends, who totally ignored what the law was and acted like they didn't know that we could and should secure the border.
Todd Huff: That there were tools at their disposal that they simply haven't used for decades. Trump, of course, being the exception here. But these laws have been ignored.
Todd Huff: The responsibility had been abdicated by these folks. And America suffered tremendously in a lot of ways, a lot of ways, and that's what Trump's talking about here.
Todd Huff: We didn't need new laws. We just needed a new president, he continued.
Donald Trump (Soundbite): We inherited the worst border anywhere in the world, and we quickly turned it into the strongest border in the history of our country.
Donald Trump (Soundbite): In other words, in a few short months, we went from worst to best. We're deporting criminals, restoring safety to our most dangerous cities.
Donald Trump (Soundbite): Just take a look at Washington, D.C., following the law. It's at levels of safety that we've never seen before.
Donald Trump (Soundbite): And they decimated the bloodthirsty foreign drug cartels. We did that all by ourselves, with our people, and we're so proud of it.
Donald Trump (Soundbite): Because they were poisoning and destroying our population. Drugs brought in by ocean and by sea are now down 94%.
Donald Trump (Soundbite): We have broken the grip of sinister woke radicals in our schools, and control over those schools is back now in the hands of our great and loving states.
Todd Huff: I gotta pause there, just due to time. There have been massive steps. I mean, talking here about the Department of Education, by the way.
Todd Huff: I mean, education is still moving ahead here. Obviously, there's problems in education, the same problems that existed before, but now states can have more of a hand in fixing those things. They acted like society as we knew it would end as the Department of Education was dismantled.
Todd Huff: I mean, the things that we have been subjected to, and it's good to get this reminder from the president, the things that we have even seen fixed, sometimes dramatically fixed, 180-degree turns here in the past 11 months are remarkable.
Todd Huff: So, timeouts in order, my friends. Sit tight. Back in just a minute.
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Todd Huff: Going back to what Trump was saying Wednesday night here. I don't have a lot of time this last segment, but I want to get to as much of this as I can. If you want to hear the full speech, if you did miss it, you can go to the White House's YouTube channel.
Todd Huff: You can go to our website for today's Stack of Stuff. You'll find the link there. You can Google it, whatever the case may be. But I want to play as much of this as I can at the time that we have remaining.
Donald Trump (Soundbite): After rebuilding the United States military in my first term, and with the addition we are adding right now, we have the most powerful military anywhere in the world, and it's not even close.
Donald Trump (Soundbite): That's good. I've restored American strength, settled eight wars in 10 months, destroyed the Iran nuclear threat, and ended the war in Gaza, bringing for the first time in 3,000 years peace to the Middle East and secured the release of the hostages, both living and dead.
Donald Trump (Soundbite): Here at home, we're bringing our economy back from the brink of ruin. The last administration and their allies in Congress looted our treasury for trillions of dollars, driving up prices and everything at levels never seen before.
Donald Trump (Soundbite): I am bringing those high prices down and bringing them down very fast. Let's look at the facts. Under the Biden administration, car prices rose 22%, and in many states, 30% or more.
Donald Trump (Soundbite): Gasoline rose 30 to 50%. Hotel rates rose 37%. Airfares rose 31%. Now, under our leadership, they are all coming down and coming down fast.
Donald Trump (Soundbite): Democrat politicians also sent the cost of groceries soaring. But we are solving that, too. The price of a Thanksgiving turkey was down 33% compared to the Biden last year. The price of eggs is down 82% since March, and everything else is falling rapidly.
Donald Trump (Soundbite): And it's not done yet. But, boy, are we making progress. Nobody now.
Todd Huff: If you remember, I remember when Trump took office, the price of eggs was something that the Democrats talked about a lot. If you want to know if something is heading in the direction of the Democrats' narrative or not, just look at how often they talk about it.
Todd Huff: They don't talk about it now because Trump has done. Listen, the economy, the economy is up to the people in the business sector. I mean, the things that happen there are the results of businesses and consumers.
Todd Huff: There's a lot of factors, but certainly one of the big factors are the policies that are being instituted, set in place in this country. And when the country is afraid of what the lunatics running the government are going to do, when we have lunatics in charge, it makes things harder.
Todd Huff: I mean, a lot of what happens in the economy is what people think is going to be coming next. And when you have someone like Biden running the economy or running this nation making these decisions, it makes people, on top of the bad policies, by the way, on top of the inflation.
Todd Huff: Which was 100% the fault of the federal government, you also have the reality that these other factors are contributing to the economy just because how much confidence is there in the leaders, how much confidence is there amongst business owners.
Todd Huff: That there won't be additional bureaucratic red tape or burdens placed upon them. When they have faith that they're not being targeted or that the people in decision-making roles are not going to make things harder for them to run their business.
Todd Huff: They become more optimistic. They're willing to take more risks. They're willing to hire more people. They're willing to have new locations, facilities. Some businesses, listen, you have to be able to operate in all environments as entrepreneurs, as businesses.
Todd Huff: But whenever you are dealing with an administration or a government that you are comfortable in knowing that they're not going to come and throw some additional bureaucratic piece of red tape in my way or put a financial burden upon me.
Todd Huff: Then it begins to lighten the load. And that's what we've seen. The country knows that the president, the president is business-friendly. He's not like what we've had, and things are absolutely improving.
Todd Huff: They only had one way to go. He had a lot more to say about this, my friends. What I care about the most is just, I think, number one, it's wonderful to communicate these things because it's easy to forget what we've been through.
Todd Huff: So I like that, number one. Number two, number two, he's taking control of the narrative, and he's telling us that, hey, here's the priorities. Here's where we've been. Here's what we've accomplished.
Todd Huff: And if you watch the full speech, he also kind of lays out where we're heading a little bit. Of a State of the Union address, so to speak, here.
Todd Huff: But I'm out of time. Gotta run. Have a great weekend. SDG.
