Many thanks to Adam for posting the livestream!
I got called away from the computer, but I did follow the final two-thirds on the Guardian‘s excellent-as-always livestream, with facts and commentary:
Guess which line of those below was a Trump improvisation?
America has also finally turned the page on decades of unfair trade deals that sacrificed our prosperity and shipped away our companies, our jobs, and our wealth.
The nations has lost its wealth but we’re getting it back so fast.
The era of economic surrender is over. From now on, we expect trading relationships to be fair and more importantly reciprocal.
My opinion of the speech and the speecherator: Low energy. No stamina. SAD!
Just look at the reactions right on this here blog. Used to be, we could get three, four massive fast-moving threads out of a single nationally-televised Preznidential speech. Tonight, we didn’t even break a TBogg unit (500+ comments). Not once did the livestream overload my crappy old laptop didn’t even overload, until it came to young Kennedy’s rebuttal!
At least we can take some consolation in knowing that Trump is now — or will be once the tranqs wear off — scouring every available source looking for a metric that will let him tweet that *his* speech was totally more popular than You Know Who’s…
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America welcomes Trump to his State Of The Union by flipping him off. pic.twitter.com/mF6tLJgPp2
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) January 31, 2018
The state of the union is that we have a president who has refused to release his taxes, has almost certainly laundered money for Russians, and Republicans won’t do anything about it because they are cowards &/or co-conspirators
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) January 31, 2018
Also from the Guardian:
Twitter says tonight’s speech was “the most-tweeted #SOTU or #JointSession address ever, passing last year’s record of 3m tweets.”
Perfect. Trump’s devolved past “soundbite president” into “140 character president”. Can’t even muster the energy to deliver a decent quip on-camera.
As Trump said "we sought to restore the bonds of trust between our citizens and our government," one Democrat very audibly said "Oh Jesus."
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) January 31, 2018
So Trump is calling for national unity by reminding us of how he spent the fall feuding with NFL players
— James Poniewozik (@poniewozik) January 31, 2018
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