President Donald Trump’s primetime address from the White House on Thursday night didn’t make huge news.
But the speech about potential vulnerabilities in the American election system could be one we look back on as a significant moment — particularly as a preview of how Trump might try to undermine the 2026 election.
Here are some takeaways from the speech.
Much like his primetime address on the Iran war back in April, Thursday’s was a speech that probably could have been a daytime press conference.
Trump’s big reveal was a series of newly declassified documents that he claimed were hidden from both him and the American people and that showed the American election system is “catastrophically short” of the standard required.
