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America's Truckin Network -- 2/25/26

February 25, 2026·36 min·3 clips

Kevin Gordon reviews the longest State of the Union in history and why he wanted it to keep going.

148 minutes is where Kevin Gordon starts. He calls the State of the Union the longest one in history, then uses Clinton's long speeches to make the length complaint sound a little too easy. He liked the speech, plainly. There is no careful both-sides shrug here: he calls it one of the best he has heard and talks about showmanship, American pride, and first-year accomplishments. Democrats get dragged into it too. Gordon says they stood and applauded for a few things this time, but he still treats the room as embarrassing. Then the show turns to GDP. That part has a familiar push-pull: the headline sounds soft, the details look stronger, and the explanation gets weird fast. Consumer spending gets a close read. He puts personal consumption expenditures at 2.4 percent, down from 3.5 percent, while arguing that demand still does not match the gloomy framing. The mismatch bugs him. Final sales to private domestic purchasers, gross private domestic investment, and later GDP revisions all become reasons to wait for the next pass before buying the first story. Consumer confidence is the brighter spot, though he keeps the labor market cloud in view. The media critique comes right back. Gordon says mainstream coverage has kept hinting at outcomes that have not arrived, at least in his read. He keeps returning to the same warning: one number rarely tells the story. The close brings it back to trucking. If a driver cannot speak English at a dock, Gordon says that is a violation, and he wants enforcement tightened instead of waved through. By the end, politics, economic data, media framing, and trucking rules all land on the people paying bills and moving freight.

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A live monologue that turns the State of the Union into a broader talk about the economy and trucking enforcement.

Kevin Gordon opens with the State of the Union and uses it as a springboard into numbers, politics, and public reaction. He dwells on the length record, the partisan applause, and the showmanship of the moment before widening the frame to GDP, consumer confidence, labor-market…

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