The Strangest State of the Union Ever
John Harris: “President Donald Trump likes his superlatives and you have to give him credit: He definitely earned them this time. This was the most defiant, most boastful, most ostentatiously theatrical, most overtly campaign-oriented, most am-I-hearing-this-right? outlandish — the most flamboyantly bizarre — State of the Union Address of All Time.”
“It was also the most disorienting, and hard to categorize through the prism of conventional political analysis. That prism already had lost much of its utility during the Trump Era, and the president seemed to shatter it completely in a 78-minute speech to a congressional audience whose fealty and contempt toward Trump were on display in equal and vivid measure. Trump long ago lost the capacity truly to shock, but he still has tricks up his sleeve: The speech showed he still has ability to surprise.”
“In particular, his speech was notable for the unapologetically zig-zag quality of the messaging. The usual rubric is that national politicians face a choice of mobilization or persuasion. One choice is to energize the partisan base with sharp-edged rhetoric and cultural and ideological scab-picking. The other choice is to blur lines with round-edged appeals to voters who aren’t on board but might yet be coaxed there. Trump refused the choice. In keeping with the more-is-more spirit of the speech, he did both.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/05/trump-sotu-analysis-110803
https://politicalwire.com/2020/02/05/the-strangest-state-of-the-union-ever/
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and not in a good way. Like drumpf wrote the speech, 
. It was nauseating. I'm trying to gird my loins to check out the coverage by the newspapers, think it could make me sick and I'm not feeling well to begin with. Hoping they noted all the many self-serving outright lies, especially about pre-existing conditions and healthcare. He has never said one truthful word on stage about healthcare, Medicare, Social Security or Medicaid. A week after he gave an interview saying Americans are making so much money, social security and medicare could and should be cut. He's said this numerous times in interviews to rw sources, but never ever from the stage. God, I hate that fucking pretend human being so much!!
