Brit Hume: Trump address ‘most partisan speech I’ve ever heard … in this kind of setting’

Fox News’s chief political analyst Brit Hume on Tuesday said President Trump’s joint address to Congress was the “most partisan” speech he’s heard in that “kind of setting.”

Hume weighed in on Trump’s speech, which was the longest address in modern history, surpassing former President Clinton by speaking for nearly 100 minutes.

“This was the most boisterous, the longest, the most partisan speech I’ve ever heard a president give in this kind of setting, and I go back about maybe 50 years on this,” Hume said. “I also think it may have been the most effective.”

Hume, a longtime analyst, cautioned Trump after the election that the results were “not a mandate.” The president has yet to take his advice and claimed in his speech on Tuesday that the American people gave him a mandate “for bold and profound change.”

Still, Hume called Trump the “political colossus of our time” after his address, stating that the remarks should have put any doubts about the president "to rest."

While many Democrats skipped the event, several took to varying forms of protest during the joint address. Some walked out and held up signs while others wore color-coordinated clothing. Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) was escorted out after shouting at the president.

Hume argued that the showing on Tuesday proved that Democrats have no ground with Trump or the GOP.

“The Democrats seem to be falling into trap after trap after trap as he … recognized the people and celebrated the people he pointed to in the gallery and their stories while Democrats sat glumly on their hands through all of that,” he said.

“It was a terrible look,” Hume said, adding that Green’s disruption was a “bad look” for Democrats.

Hume then argued that “politically speaking,” he believed that Trump’s Tuesday evening address just weeks after retaking the White House, was “pretty powerful stuff, as powerful as I think I’ve heard.”

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