” but is required by custom and Constitution to come forth with a report of some kind by a certain time and day. “
I recall reading somewhere that there’s no Constitutional requirement that this report be delivered in the form of a speech, or even ‘in person’ - that, in fact, the first few Presidents just ‘mailed it in’.....
Yea, but if he mailed it in, it would have deprived us of our WTF? moment, of our WTF? President.