He speaks; he scores, he soars.
A terrific SOTU address. Pride of country, tears of joy and tears of sympathy.
Lasting longer than the foretold 45 minutes, he wove words together which tug at the heart of every American patriot.
When he spoke of abortion and after birth murder, the demons in the room attempted to slither and hide. The air was let out of them.
Nan from San Fran continues to have her teeth problem, perhaps it is her eye tooth. She certainly spent a good deal of time in attempting to read her copy; so absorbed she never knew when to stand or sit. What a ‘Leader’; her caucus of women stood and as they did so, she gestured with both hands for them to rise. Such a fraud.
Very pleased, but never expected anything less. This man will be the reason America has promise of surviving.
I agree that it was a great speech overall. He started out slow and sounded a bit hoarse, like maybe he had been under the weather recently. But he got rolling after about five minutes and his voice cleared up and strengthened. Only thing I would have changed is taking out the statement that if Trump had not been elected, we’d be in a war with North Korea by now. That’s a stretch, but he made it sound reasonable so I don’t think that statement will cause any problems.
For me, the highlight of the speech was the story of the elderly man who was a prisoner in a German concentration camp. He and his family were put in a box car on a train and told they were “moving to another camp.” Then the train made a screeching halt, and had been stopped by the US Army. His father shouted out in exhiliration: “It’s the Americans...it’s the Americans!” What a great story. That’s what we stand for as a nation—freedom and the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...throughout the world. (...and that elderly man was in the audience tonight...what a great story.)
He nailed it on the border wall. You know, I remember around 30 years ago when a friend of mine was going to college at USC in Los Angeles. Way back then he told us about the threat to American citizens from violent illegal immigrants in LA. It was bad back then, nothing was done about it, and it’s worse today. Illegal immigration is one of the biggest scandals in American history...the way the Democrats and RINOs have destroyed the rule of law on our Southern border for their own political benefit.
I think he’s going to get no funding for the wall from the DemoRats, but he’s not going to declare a National Emergency. Instead he’s going to build it through the defense budget, by transferring unused funding for unnecessary military housing and other facilities into funding for the border wall. I saw a post on another website about the law that allows him to do this transfer. I’m sure it’s all been cleared by Chief Justice Roberts as fully legal and constitutional, because Trump doesn’t go into any political fight without a good solid plan. I’m sure he has a great plan for funding and building the border wall. Go Trump Team! MAGA!
Well said, VK. Great to hear about tears of joy :- ) I, too, was very proud of my President.
I read a story saying this was the second longest SOTU speech in history after one of Clinton’s.
The Clinton speech was 9,500 words and Trump’s was 5,500 words. It means Trump’s speech had more meat! And I’m sure, a more riveting talk to listen to.
Truth is, Trump broke up the speech with several great introductions to people in the galleries. This one will go down in history.
And so all the FReeper nonsense that Trump “was defeated” by the reopening of the Government went up in smoke last night.