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Every once in a while a speech is so effective and powerful it changes the trajectory of history. President Trump’s 2019 State of the Union address was that kind of speech. If you have not seen it, you should watch it online. Reading it will only convey 10 percent of its power. It was the interaction of the president with the members of Congress and the audience in the galleries that was so compelling.

President Donald Trump began Tuesday's State of the Union address by snubbing the woman who has given him the most heartburn in the past five weeks. In a speech designed to call for 'cooperation, compromise and the common good' instead of partisan bickering and 'the politics of revenge,' Trump struck an unlikely chord at a time when disunity holds Washington and the nation captive. Trump called on Congress, including the Democrats' new House majority, to 'break decades of political stalemate' and put country over party. He called for a law mandating nationwide paid family leave for new parents, a priority...

FULL TITLE: Todd Starnes: I had a front-row seat at Trump's State of the Union -- You won't believe what I saw I was honored to be among those Americans selected to sit in the House gallery at the State of the Union address Tuesday night. I was a guest of Rep. Jody Hice, a Republican congressman from Georgia. It was one of those uniquely American moments – where strangers sat together – many of opposing political views – united under the belief that we are a free people, one nation – under God. My seatmate was a Democrat from...

RUSH: Okay. Grab sound bites No. 1 and 2. I want to do a little side-by-side comparison here of applause lines. Up first is Trump mentioning the overall number of jobs created for the American people. THE PRESIDENT: …5.3 million new jobs and importantly added 600,000 new manufacturing jobs, something which almost everyone said was impossible to do. But the fact is, we are just getting started. HOUSE CHAMBER: (wild cheers and applause) RUSH: Right on. Right on. Right on. Right on. HOUSE CHAMBER: (wild cheers and applause) RUSH: It goes on here for about… HOUSE CHAMBER: (wild cheers and...

RUSH: Let me get this out of the way. Media reaction to this. There’s been all kinds of it. Let’s go to the stats first. CBS: 76% approve of the speech — all kinds of people — 59% CNN very positive view of the speech. This is the exact opposite what the media was setting the table for, the exact opposite what the left thought they were gonna get. They thought they got a guy last night that was gonna be putting his foot in his mouth and tripping over himself all night. They walked in there arrogant, condescending, so...

Stacey Abrams gave the Democratic response to the State of the Union and talked about voter suppression. So let's take a look at her federal lawsuit and see if it's real.

Seventy-six percent of Americans who tuned in to President Trump's State of the Union address Tuesday night approved of the speech he gave. Just 24 percent disapproved. As is often the case in State of the Union addresses, the people who watched tonight's speech leaned more towards the president's own party, at least compared to Americans overall. In the latest CBS national poll released last month, 25 percent of Americans identified themselves as Republicans. Among those who watched Tuesday night's address, that figure was 43 percent, and Republicans helped bolster the overall approval of the address. And while 97 percent...

..‘Learn Her Name’ and Be Afraid of Her Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez went after conservative teenager CJ Pearson on Tuesday, saying that he should “learn her name” and that he’s “right to be afraid of us” — referring to herself and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. During the State of the Union address, Pearson, a 16-year-old political commentator, noted on Twitter that Ocasio-Cortez was talking through President Donald Trump’s “entire speech and the woman next to her keeps trying to look the other way.” The 65-year-old congresswoman responded to the teenager’s seemingly harmless tweet, despite not being tagged in it, saying that her...

VIDEO A DUmmie posted a SOTU boycott thread but as we shall see they couldn't keep President Trump's speech out of their tiny minds.

The Atlantic’s Jemele Hill referenced a public assassination during President Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night. Hill, a far-leftist who despises Trump and has falsely labeled the president a “white supremacist,” alluded to the assassination of Malcolm X, who was gunned down in front of his supporters and family while preparing to give a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in 1965. “[P]lease let @AOC yell out ‘whose mans is this,'” actor Desus Nice posted on Twitter. Hill responded, “Nah, she gotta yell: GETCHO HAND OUT MY POCKET.”

NBC examines claims about the economy, immigration, trade, abortion and foreign policy: CLAIM: TRUMP'S ADMINISTRATION HAS CREATED 600,000 MANUFACTURING JOBS Trump's figure is close. The U.S. has added 454,000 manufacturing jobs since Trump took office in January 2017, some of the biggest gains in 20 years, according to jobs data. Trump’s numbers mark an acceleration of a trend that began in 2010 under President Barack Obama. CLAIM: TRUMP SAYS HE LAUNCHED AN 'UNPRECEDENTED ECONOMIC BOOM' Trump took office amid a booming economy, and he’s been taking credit for it since day one. But there’s no evidence he created this boom....

You could sum up in one word why many evangelicals voted for Donald Trump: abortion. It is therefore highly significant that it was Trump who made what might well be the strongest pro-life statement ever in a State of the Union address. In 2003, President George W. Bush spoke out against partial-birth abortion, saying, “By caring for children who need mentors, and for addicted men and women who need treatment, we are building a more welcoming society -- a culture that values every life. And in this work we must not overlook the weakest among us. I ask you to...

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer on Wednesday attacked President Trump’s State of the Union address, calling it “political, divisive, calculating, even nasty at times.” Mr. Schumer, who was in a tiff with the president hours before the address to Congress and the nation, said the speech was “sort of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” with most of the emphasis on the “Mr. Hyde” elements. “The president was political, divisive, calculating, even nasty at times,” the New York Democrat said on CNN’s “New Day.” “You can’t talk comity and working together and give a speech that is just so divisive....

Stacey Abrams, former Democratic candidate for governor in Georgia, delivered the Democratic response to President Donald Trump's State of the Union on Tuesday. In that speech, she repeated the fake news that Trump's administration put kids in cages."This administration chooses to cage children and tear families apart," Abrams declared. “This administration chooses to put children in cages and tear families apart” - Abrams #SOTU— Sam Wise ?????? (@SamWiseSW) February 6, 2019 The viral photo of a child in a cage did not come from Trump's immigration policy, however. The photo came from a protest against the Trump administration. Other...

I don't think the suits at CNN anticipated either the quality of State of the Union speech that President Trump delivered or the positive public reaction to it when they went to the expense and trouble of an instant poll.  The segment they broadcast on it is a classic of rationalization, attempting to minimize the outcome that went so contrary to their own prejudices.  A stunning 59% were very positive, with another 17% somewhat positive, for a grand total of 76% – a landslide in anyone's book. Watch the entire segment, which will cost you only one minute and 42 seconds.  A transcript is...

Trump's SOTU speech was wonderful, factual and optimistic. It was a celebration of America and the successes of the last two years. No one would know it by the visible response of the ladies in white (allegedly an homage to women's suffrage), the mostly newly elected Democrat congresswomen. The only part of the speech they sincerely applauded was themselves – more women in Congress. For most of the rest of the speech, they sat on their hands, looking mad (Mazie Hirono), glum (all of them), petulant and dismissive (Kamala Harris), bored and studiously disinterested (Nancy Pelosi). Pelosi, along with Schumer,...

Was that a great speech or what? I don’t know what more an American would want to hear from their President The State of the Union is strong.We’re still going to build a wall.We will not have late term abortion in this country.Partisan investigations are misdirecting our attentions away from our enemies who would do us harm.We will have the world’s strongest militaryOur economy is strong and growing stronger. Who could find fault with that other than a Socialist?Speaking of which, AOC was among the suffragettes in white. She brought as her guest to the SOTO the rude woman (“activist”)...

CNN anchor John King on Tuesday criticized President Trump for not mentioning climate change during his State of Union address, calling the decision "just frankly, a disgrace." "Every leader, whatever his party should be talking about climate change," King said late Tuesday discussing Trump's remarks.... King also praised the Democratic response by Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams as the "best response by a Democrat or Republican" he had seen in years. "That's the best response by a Democrat or Republican I can remember in some years," the "Inside Politics" anchor said. "It's a very difficult job. It's a thankless job. But...

If there is an intellectual core in President Donald Trump’s 2019 State of the Union speech, it came in the section on undocumented immigration. In it, Trump cast the country as divided between elites and the working class, with Trump on the side of the working class and Democrats as the champions of the elites.