Posted on 01/25/2018 6:13:03 AM PST by Kaslin
This Tuesday, President Donald Trump will travel to the United States Capitol and deliver his first State of the Union Address from the well of the House of Representatives. Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker Paul Ryan will sit behind him during the address and stand, clap and nod as appropriate. This will be a historic address. It will combine Trump's ability to engage, entertain and connect with his audience, the American people, with his ability to create a vision of an even brighter future of Americans.
With the passage of major tax legislation behind him, and the government back open, Trump has much good news to share. The State of our Union is good.
During his first year, Trump ended the delay for Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines, and he appointed a raft of conservative federal judges, (most importantly, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch). Government regulations have been cut, leading to business optimism and economic growth. On the foreign policy side, Trump has reoriented our foreign policy stance from everyone else first, to America first. This reorientation has lead to the United States' departure from the Paris climate accord and the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. He announced that he will move the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
Congress passed and he signed a massive tax reform bill, which included a repeal of the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act. The stock market is continually making record gains. Economic growth is up and unemployment is down.
The labor participation rate, which measures the portion of the labor force that is working, has held steady since Trump was elected, at 62.7 percent. (It had fallen from 65.7 percent at the beginning of the Obama administration.) With a tightening of the labor force (lower unemployment) and more economic growth, people who have grown discouraged, or are no longer interested in working, will gravitate back into the job market.
The State of the Union appears poised to continue to get better.
While the news organization and pundits are discussing last week's political activities, actions, winners and losers, dozens of people are locked away, carefully crafting language to present to the president for him to include in the State of the Union speech.
A few things to think about. This is President Trump's speech to the country he loves. Everything that is included will be included because Trump wants it included. His voice, his message, his tone and tenor will be evident throughout the speech. He is our president and he will be delivering his State of the Union.
The United States Constitution mandates that the president "give to the Congress information on the State of the Union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient." But his primary audience will be the American people. Politicians and pundits will attempt to dissect and parse its meaning -- but they are not the audience and they will misinterpret much of what he says.
Trump will list the many "wins" we have had as a country since his election, election promises met. He will then shift our vision to the future. Our future together as a country. Most importantly, he will describe how we can shape and improve our future when we work together.
Those on the other side of the aisle will, as usual, attempt to divert or distract from the positive momentum generated since the election. This is the only way that they can win the mid-term elections, by appealing to emotions and sentiment rather than by discussing policy and progress, or even potential progress. They will fight with emotion.
What's going to become more evident over time will be the disconnect between the media focus and the everyday lives of average Americans (which are very different from the everyday lives of politicians or political pundits).
As Trump talks about the American successes since inauguration, he will include tributes and stories of average Americans and guests in the gallery or at home whom he will recognize. Their real-life stories will reflect the impact of the changes people have experienced in their lives since Trump took office, and more importantly how their perspective of the future has changed.
Like all great communicators, Trump knows that it's not the numbers and the statistics that drive home his points, but how his words and his delivery make people feel. These emotions will coalesce into long-term recollections going forward. It will be must watch TV.
Trump can’t count on Twitter, so don’t be surprised if he has a major announcement concerning the sealed indictments.
Absolutely! Not taking a knee on this one! It will be the first SOTU that we will watch since 2008.
It would be insane to not have the memo released by then. If it is not released the propaganda spoon fed to the masses by the MSM will be the worst yet.
Nothing the president says about his successes will receive any note. It will be Russia, Russia, Russia, president “forced” to testify, coming “dangerous and fake Republican memo talking points”.
If the MSM is going to ignore Trump’s successes and future plans let them explain the actual memo which will be front and center for the masses to see.
Release the damn memo now.
Trump will list the many “wins” we have had as a country since his election, election promises met. He will then shift our vision to the future.
ANd Have Speaker Ryan READ the Memo LIVE on Worldwide TV. Hundreds of Federal Agents are outside with Arrest Warrants in hand for the people involved that are in this room tonight....
It may even be better than the ‘escalator’ speech.
The MSM and Dems (redundant) already have their spin about the memo. They say it is just partisan misinformation taking things out of context. The media will make that the dominant version of the story. That memo better be a genuine bombshell, or it will destroy any credibility Republican investigators have.
Amazing to see how many folks think as we do in our household. A truly massive silent majority eager to see America Made Great Again.
I think that is close to what might happen. Not sure if Ryan will read it, though. I think he might be on the list of those to be arrested.
I’d like to see Trump read the memo to us. Maybe he will also read a few of the recovered FBI texts and Clinton “yoga” emails.
This could be the greatest SotU ever!
I really like your idea about having all the perps in one room and ready to be arrested!
“If it is not released the propaganda spoon fed to the masses by the MSM will be the worst yet.”
Do you have even the slightest doubt that had the memo been super bad for anybody with an (R) after their name up to and including Trump, that it would have long ago been leaked to the media and would have been trumpeted at volume 11 24/7?
This will be the most watched SOTU address in histoire by a YUGE margin.
Trump will be “presidential” and pull no punches.
I can’t say that I have EVER been EXCITED about a SOTU before, but I am about this one.
WINNING on display for the whole country to see.
I hope the dems expose themselves to the nation by sitting on their hands and booing.
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