By tomorrow morning, Trump will have had hours of “Executive Time” to obsess over cable-news reactions to his speech. But the illusion of normalcy never lasts long. ![]() “That sounds so good,” he beamed, going off script.Ĭable-news pundits have fallen for this act before. When he declared that the state of the union was “strong,” he was greeted with chants of ”U.S.A.! U.S.A.!” from one half of the audience. “We can bridge old divisions, heal old wounds, build new coalitions, forge new solutions, and unlock the extraordinary promise of America’s future,” he said. “Together, we can break decades of political stalemate,” he declared, despite recently shutting down the government for a record 35 days over his demands that Democrats fund a border wall.Įarlier in the day, during a private lunch for television anchors at the White House, Trump reportedly called Senator Chuck Schumer a “nasty son of a bitch” and described former vice president Joe Biden as “dumb.” But standing before a joint session of Congress, reciting a speech crafted by his top aides, Trump was, briefly, a different man. The theme of the night, according to a bulleted list of talking points distributed beforehand, was “Choosing Greatness”: a Trumpian spin on the very un-Trumpian notions of unity, comity, and bipartisanship. ![]() Reading from two large, strategically placed teleprompters on either side of the House lectern on Tuesday night, with his tie awkwardly jammed to the left of his jacket, Donald Trump delivered a State of the Union address that sounded almost presidential.
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