No SOTU speech can be taken off the list of tells. Carter is the last President to give a SOTU address in his first year.
“There has not been a State of the Union address every year. Several presidents did not give official speeches in this capacity in their first year: Reagan in 1981, George H.W. Bush in 1989, Clinton in 1993, George W. Bush in 2001, Barack Obama in 2009, and Donald Trump in 2017. But many, such as Trump, did deliver speeches to Congress in their first year.”
There is still this set of oddities noted by gulf war one:
“Joe continues to legislate by EO.
Congress is not voting on any legislation.
No legislation has crossed Joe’s desk for him to sign; everything is by EO.
Joe has said next-to-nothing about /signing/ any pending legislation.
He has signaled agreement with the concepts but never a leader’s statement of “I will sign it as soon as it is on my desk.”
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There is note that there has been no “buzz” from inside the WH or the media concerning a SOTU.
To me, this qualifies as “uncharacteristic” as there was/is so much focus on be “Presidential” and justify and vindicate Biden’s victory.