WASHINGTON — President Trump boasted he pulled off an economic “turnaround for the ages” in the longest State of the Union address in history — while using the US Olympics men’s hockey team as evidence that the country was “winning” like never before.

Trump played cheerleader-in-chief to a vast TV audience, describing the country as thriving while bringing stability to the world — and dusting off his signature campaign line about voters fearing the country would be “winning too much” on his watch.

The president took the opportunity to attack the Supreme Court for striking down his “reciprocal” tariffs — which he credited for bringing America’s economic “turnaround” — and blamed Democrats for having “caused” the affordability crisis.



Trump also touted new economic proposals to ban investors from scooping up homes, force drug companies to lower prices, require healthcare pricing transparency and restrict members of Congress from stock trading.

“Our country is winning again. In fact, we’re winning so much that we really don’t know what to do about it,” Trump told the joint session of Congress in his 1 hours and 48 minute address, praising the US men’s hockey team for having demonstrated this best by bringing home the gold.


https://nypost.com/2026/02/24/us-news/trump-plays-economic-cheerleader-in-chief-using-hockey-champs-to-show-usa-winning/