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A tiered ranking chart of U.S. presidents, formatted like a pyramid/tier list with portrait photos. At the top, alone under the heading "THE GREATEST," is a single official-style portrait of Donald Trump. Below that, in descending tiers, are grouped portraits of other presidents: "GREAT" (Lincoln, Washington, F.D. Roosevelt, Jefferson, Jackson); "NEAR GREAT" (T. Roosevelt, Cleveland, J. Adams, Polk, Reagan, Grant, Eisenhower); "AVERAGE" (Clinton, J.Q. Adams, Monroe, Hayes, Madison, Taft, Arthur, McKinley, Johnson, Nixon, Kennedy, Wilson, Van Buren, B. Harrison, Truman); "BELOW AVERAGE" (Tyler, Coolidge, Fillmore, Taylor, Buchanan, Pierce, G.H. Bush, L.B. Johnson, Ford); and "FAILURES" at the bottom (Biden, Obama, G.W. Bush, Harding, Carter, Hoover). Each portrait is a head-and-shoulders painted or photographic image with the president's surname printed below it in a serif font.

Text in image: THE GREATEST TRUMP GREAT LINCOLN WASHINGTON F.D. ROOSEVELT JEFFERSON JACKSON NEAR GREAT T. ROOSEVELT CLEVELAND J. ADAMS POLK REAGAN GRANT EISENHOWER AVERAGE CLINTON J.Q. ADAMS MONROE HAYES MADISON TAFT ARTHUR McKINLEY JOHNSON NIXON KENNEDY WILSON VAN BUREN B. HARRISON TRUMAN BELOW AVERAGE TYLER COOLIDGE FILLMORE TAYLOR BUCHANAN PIERCE G.H. BUSH L.B. JOHNSON FORD FAILURES BIDEN OBAMA G.W. BUSH HARDING CARTER HOOVER

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A screenshot of a social media post (styled like X/Twitter) from an account named "Mike Lee" with handle @BasedMikeLee, which has a blue verification checkmark. The profile picture shows a person wearing a light blue collared shirt in front of an American flag background. The post is text-only, with no accompanying photo.

Text in image: Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee Trump is saving $300 million on the Reflecting Pool renovation. Naturally, leftists are freaking out over it.

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Here to discuss all of this is former Trump Deputy National Security Advisor, KT McFarland. Always great to see you, especially great to see you, KT, on this particular story because it's right in your wheelhouse. I want to start with Venezuela. When you step back and you look at this deal, and I get, you know, there are all kinds of other questions about this, but it does kind of make you wonder if when President Trump's memoirs are written, the whole, this whole situation in Venezuela, where the US winds up gaining access to these reserves, wasn't the precursor to his decision to then go after Iran? Oh, I think it was. And I think they probably thought Iran might be easier than it turned out to be, but it didn't. It turned out to be harder, but we still won. And that's the difference. We've won that. We've won that war. Because why? Because the oil that was moving through the Strait of Hormuz, 20 million barrels a day, it's going differently. It's going through the Strait of Hormuz. Yeah, I'm probably 10 million barrels a day now because we've cleared the southern route. But a lot of that oil that used to move by tankers is now moving by pipeline. And it's not going to go back to tankers. And then some of the shortfall has been made up by American oil and natural gas that's moving out of the United States. So at the end of the day, we got rid of the nukes. And if they try to rebuild the nukes, well, we'll bomb those again. And as far as the importance of the Strait, it's going to be increasingly irrelevant, especially because of the Venezuela oil connection. We are now controlling a quarter of the world's oil and whoever controls the world's energy, the world's fossil fuels in the years ahead controls the future. You know, it's kind of amazing to think about, but for five decades, Iran has used their ability to put the squeeze in the Strait of Hormuz to get exact, you know, political things from other people. It's almost like they kind of pulled that bluff this time with the wrong dude, and it didn't work out for them. And they may have broken the one thing, the one lever that they've always had. You know, that's the point. They thought they were dealing with, you know, typical American president. They didn't realize it was Donald Trump and he plays by different games. And so they thought, okay, we're going to close the Strait of Hormuz just like we tried to do with President Reagan, just like we've tried to do many times before. But because Donald Trump already had the Armada prepositioned, he could then put a blockade on Iran. So for six months, no ships have gone into Iran. No ships have gone out of Iran. Their economy is spiraling. And yet at the same time, we've got this workaround of how to get oil to the world. You're going to see oil prices start to go down. I think pretty dramatically now that that shortfall of 20 million barrels a day, that's now getting to the producers. That's getting to the refineries. And it wasn't three weeks ago. It wasn't two months ago. Now it is. And so the price of oil should start coming down and hopefully the price of gasoline to follow. So not only is it significant in terms of American power in Venezuela, the U.S. having control of that. It also means that our enemies, our biggest rivals, whether it's a country like Cuba or a country like China, doesn't have access, free access for cut rate oil from Venezuela. Yeah, China had been all over South America trying to get their hands on Venezuelan and other other resources, oil as well. And now they're gone. They're out of there. They're not having any access to that. All China can get is that Iranian oil, which they're probably not getting that much of anyway. The genius of President Trump is that he realizes as a businessman, what's the best country solution you can have to all of your trade, all of your commerce, all of your manufacturing, all of your production to do it nearby. So we don't have to think about trans-specific trade or transatlantic trade. We're now going to have a Western hemisphere united at peace, trading with each other and under the United States leadership. The cheap goods that we've been importing from China for decades, they're going to now be made in South America. And because of the energy, particularly as we look to the future and the requirements of the data centers and artificial intelligence, and he's a lot more energy. Well, who's going to have all the energy? Us. Yes. Make the Western hemisphere great again. KT McFarland, as always, really appreciate it. Thank you so much.

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of this one. Okay. The president Republicans most admire. It's Donald Trump. This is a historic comparison. A majority of Republicans say 53% say he's the Republican president they most admire. Ronald Reagan who traditionally has won that. Donald Trump nearly triples up on this. Reagan at just 18%. And then Abraham Lincoln who by most historic accounts is the greatest president of all time. But Republicans say that the president that they most admire by what is this this is six seven times as many Donald John Trump at 53% easily crushing a blink in at 8% and the Elon poll showed that he was the greatest president as well. Don feel like this slide might end up on a printout at his desk.

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- For incredibly good reason, Trace. Look, as has already been said several times tonight, this is the most consequential leader that we've ever seen, not just in the United States of America, but I think worldwide, and I think that's why he faces as much opposition as he does. And with that, that's why he's loved the way that he is. And I think for someone like him, I like to imagine myself back on that campaign in 2016, the few times I got to either interact with him or see him come and talk to our team, it's almost like he was prepared back then, over 10 years ago, knowing this is exactly what was going to happen. Knowing he was not going to be another leader that went in and did absolutely nothing, and knowing that with those strong actions and with that courage, unfortunately, would come some really dark days, but also some incredibly bright ones as well.

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Here we go. Focus. Speed. I am Speed. 142 losers. I eat losers for breakfast. Breakfast? Maybe I should've had breakfast. A little brekkie could be good for me. No, no, no. Stay focused. Speed. Faster than fast. Quicker than quick. I am lightning. Hey, Lightning. You ready? I am lightning. I am lightning. I am lightning. I am lightning. Hey, Lightning. You ready? Oh, yeah. Lightning's ready. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

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I want to just go back a little bit in history if I have time briefly. President Trump single-handedly stopped Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. Beginning in term one, when he tore up the JCPOA, Obama's Iran nuclear deal that made them richer and more powerful than ever before, gave them cold hard cash, gave them hundreds of billions of dollars in financial support, and gave them a direct path to a nuclear weapon, which would not only change the balance of power in the Middle East, not only change the balance of power in the region, but change the balance of power in the whole world. Nuclear blackmail on planet Earth, its commerce, its energy, its trade, its national security. President Trump then, of course, took out Soleimani, one of the evil masterminds of so much bloodshed and mayhem across planet Earth. Then, Operation Midnight Hammer obliterates their nuclear weapons program, and now with Operation Epic Fury, he has decapitated Iran's leadership, he has destroyed their navy, destroyed their air force, destroyed their defense industrial base, all of these things to protect peace, safety, and security in the world. Now, there's a new team in place in Iran, and a result of these negotiations, the United States is closer than ever before to inking an agreement that is going to finally create the roadmap for peace, security, and prosperity in the Middle East, and for solving this nuclear program once and for all. This is an extraordinary, momentous fulcrum point in the history of the world, and President Trump alone deserves the credit for bringing us to this point. I couldn't be prouder to be part of this administration and watch this happen and play out in real time.

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Not surprised. I wasn't surprised. I wasn't surprised at all, because the bottom line is this. Donald Trump is the general of the Republican Party, and the Republican primary voters are his soldiers. And if you look at Thomas Massie, you can see it very clearly. You look in 2020, 2022, 2024. He was getting 75%, upwards of 81% of the primary vote in 2020, and today he gets less than 50% of the vote. That's the story. That is incredible, because you look at it so consistent, time after time after time, and then wow. Boom. Look tonight.

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A screenshot compilation of four X (Twitter) posts from conservative commentators praising a State of the Union address (SOTU), stacked vertically. Each shows the poster's profile photo, display name, verification checkmark, handle, and their comment text, with a "no retweet" icon and "..." menu at the top right of each post.

Text in image: Marc Thiessen 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🇹🇼🇮🇱✔ (verified) @marcthiessen Truly one of the best SOTUs ever. The way he weaves the stories of ordinary Americans into his policy narrative is unmatched. Laura Ingraham ✔ (verified) @IngrahamAngle When future historians want to understand how Trump dominated American politics for 12 years, they should watch and read this speech. Bo Snerdley ✔ (verified) @BoSnerdley [Subscribe] I have been watching State of the Union addresses for decades. I have never seen one like this. Matthew Boyle ✔ (verified) @mboyle1 Honestly, I cannot think of a better SOTU at least in my 15 plus years of covering these.

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A screenshot of a social media post from the verified account "The White House" (@WhiteHouse), dated Feb 27, with caption "WHAT A HISTORIC NIGHT🔥". The embedded image is a promotional graphic featuring a small White House icon, a photo of Donald Trump smiling in a dark suit and red tie standing in front of an American flag backdrop (apparently at a State of the Union address, given the setting resembling a congressional chamber), overlaid with large white text reading "53M" and below it "Total State of the Union Views Across All Platforms." The post shows engagement metrics: 4.6K replies, 10K reposts, 74K likes, and 1.1M views, along with bookmark and share icons.

Text in image: The White House @WhiteHouse · Feb 27 WHAT A HISTORIC NIGHT🔥 53M Total State of the Union Views Across All Platforms 4.6K 10K 74K 1.1M

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When they double down, we triple down. So men and women are going to keep standing up. They're going to keep doing the job. They're working for the greatest president in my lifetime. People are going to say what they want about President Trump, his success on the board. We got the most secure border in the history of the nation today. Criminal threats, illegal and criminal threats arrested and deported are the record high, much higher than Joe Biden. So the men and women are actually doing the job. They took an oath to do this job. They love doing this job. They're going to keep doing this job. No one's going to scare them away. No one's going to bully them from doing their job. Men and women are just going to stand up every day and hit the streets. We've got over 1,000 teams all across the country operating today, operating yesterday, operating tomorrow. We're going to keep doing our job. The protests, you can protest all you want. You can do all the violence you want. I should be back out there again tomorrow morning.

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He is the most consequential American leader of the 21st century, and that's an understatement. President Trump has, here's a list, removed men from women's sports, ended DEI in the federal government and the U.S. military, expanded oil and gas extraction to lower prices, taken steps to end unfair trade practices, secured trillions of dollars in new investments in American manufacturing, deported criminal illegal aliens, stood up for religious liberty, and rooted out anti-Christian bias, combated virulent anti-Semitism on college campuses. The list goes on and on and on. That's just barely scratching the surface. That's in a hundred days. We're just getting started.

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President Trump is a businessman. Thank God he became elected president. And what we're seeing right now is a master negotiator practicing his craft. He got elected to lower costs and grow opportunities for Americans, and he is working feverishly, seven days a week at that, bringing in other businessmen, having dialogue, some of which you see in public, most of which are happening behind closed scenes. But I could not be more optimistic. 50 days into this administration, we've seen simply tremendous achievements, and wait till you see what happens in the next 50 days.

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