Will Bunch: The most horrifying thing about Trump's State of the Union? The two words he never said
2020/2/10 12:44 (EST)
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Imagine that it’s January 1941, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt is delivering his annual State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. The planet is literally on fire from the Big One, World War II. Nazi Germany has overrun France and Adolf Hitler’s regime has been raining bombs on London for months. Japan has overrun much of Asia.
But FDR begins his speech with a long riff on how great the American economy has done under his presidency — including some gratuitous swipes at his predecessor Herbert Hoover, even though it’s been eight years since Hoover left the Oval Office. There’s a brief, bloodless mention that “our relationship with our European allies has never been stronger,” and then he moves on — urging a standing ovation for the oldest living veteran of the Civil War. And when the speech is done, the radio pundits gloss over Roosevelt’s snub of the global conflagration.
That’s too crazy to contemplate, so then how insane was it that President Trump rambled on for one hour and 18 minutes (and four seconds) last Tuesday in his reality-show-influenced 2020 State of the Union address and ignored the cataclysmic fires that have engulfed Australia and echoed the flames that are ravaging California year after year, let alone the increasing scientific evidence that we’ve entered a time of rapid sea rise, drought and killer storms?
How could the leader of a global superpower give a serious talk on the current state of his nation in 2020 and never once utter the words “climate change”?
And how did so few people even notice? Delivered just hours before his impeachment trial ended in acquittal, Trump’s third State of the Union summoned up a whirlwind of distracting pop-culture headlines — awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to cancer-stricken hatemonger Rush Limbaugh to own the libs! — and a now-predictable blizzard of lies, including a false narrative about a black Philadelphia schoolgirl that was exposed by my Inquirer colleagues.
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And for different reasons.
First, of course, is the marvelous way he does the comparison of IQ45's SOTU with FDR's (or what "could" have been FDR's).
But then again, we've been doing the same comparisons with anything IQ45 does and asking what would have happened if PRESIDENT OBAMA had done the same.
Yeah, we know THAT answer!
And, since the writer is from the Philly area he was more alert to the "Show 'n Tell" that IQ45 did with the wanting to attend a "good" school. With a little good "newspaper work" the Inquirer was able to find out that the girl DOES attend a "good" school - one that thousands wanted to get into and she was one of the lucky ones that did - AND NO SCHOLARSHIP NEEDED!
But, NO, it's the Repugs and "Sweet Betsy DeVos" that want to tear down the "public" schools and provide "financial opportunities" to her private industry friends at the desk of "government" schools!
I hope our 2020 nominee will work to address both of these issues - truly crucial issues that are facing our country - and being ignored by IQ45 and the Repugs!
