Typical Trump overflow rally.
Posted on 01/17/2019 3:45:10 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
By dis-inviting President Donald Trump from delivering the annual State of the Union address to a joint session of congress, Speaker San Fran Nan provides the President with a golden opportunity to do one of two great things for our nation: Eliminate the State of the Union tradition entirely, or move it to America’s heartland, where it belongs, and deliver it to real Americans.
Contrary to all the bad information spread all over social media yesterday, no president is under any constitutional obligation to give this speech. All the constitution requires of the president is that he or she “from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.”
Right up until the despicable Woodrow Wilson decided to start making a speech in 1913 to congress to satisfy this obligation, American presidents had done it in writing. Somehow, the nation survived.
The truth is that this annual bit of Kabuki Theatre is a tremendous waste of time, nothing more than a tedious opportunity for a president to brag about successes that may or may not be real, for members of the opposition party to sit on their hands and scowl while he does so, and for mental midgets like former Illinois congressman Luis Guitierrez to get up and walk out. The entire exercise is incredibly tiresome and frankly not good in any way for the country.
President Trump would be doing the nation a huge favor by dispensing with this nonsense altogether. Just put the final version of the speech in the U.S. mail on January 29, addressed to Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and spend the rest of that day getting rid of more of the un-American legacy of Barack Hussein Obama. Productive work is always a good thing.
But if the President decides he must deliver a speech in order to take advantage of the opportunity to speak to the nation on national television unfiltered by the preening peacocks in the national fake news media, then why not take it out of the cesspool that is Washington, D.C., and move it to a place where real Americans live and work and breathe the flyover country air?
Take it to Pittsburgh, one of the great cities of America’s Rust Belt, which is experiencing a tremendous renaissance in recent years, and which led the way in delivering Pennsylvania’s electoral votes to Donald Trump in November, 2016. Rent the city’s largest arena and deliver the speech to 15,000 appreciative Pennsylvanians.
Or take it to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the state the Pantsuit Princess couldn’t be bothered to visit, or Detroit, Michigan, states that hadn’t voted for any GOP presidential candidate in this century, but that helped put Trump in the White House in 2016.
If you want to take it to the heart of the Heartland, there’s always St. Louis or Dallas, both great cities with big, secure airports and millions of real citizens who would rush for the chance to witness a formal presidential speech.
But if he really wants to make an impact, if he really wants to focus on the border security issue, take the speech to San Antonio or even the Rio Grande Valley, fill the arena with 15,000 Texans, and invite every mother and father and sister and brother who have lost loved ones to violent crimes committed by illegal aliens to occupy the seats closest to the stage.
Regardless of where the speech is held, invite every member of congress to attend as well, but ensure that they all must stand on-line with everyone else, enter the arena along with everyone else, and sit in random seats out among the real people, so that they can experience the speech as real Americans experience it, and maybe even have a conversation with a real American or two while they’re doing it.
Wouldn’t that be something?
Donald Trump is a natural disrupter – always has been, always will be. He doesn’t just ignore stuffy and stupid and non-productive traditions – like the annual White House Correspondents Dinner – he destroys them. It’s why he was elected to the presidency in the first place.
By sending him her incredibly dishonest and embarrassingly vapid letter, Speaker San Fran Nan has handed Mr. Trump a golden opportunity to play the disrupter again, and do it in a way that turns a tedious and tiresome Washington D.C. tradition into an event that involves and benefits real, ordinary Americans.
Of course, the most likely outcome here is that the President will, later today, simply inform the Speaker that her concerns about “security” issues are absurd, and that he will be at the House Chamber at 9:00 ET on January 29 to deliver the speech as she invited him to do on January 3, which by the way was already two weeks into this fake, partial government “shutdown.”
But wouldn’t be wonderful, wouldn’t it be a fantastic thing if he did something else?
Yes, yes it would. Just do it, Mr. President, do it for the people.
That is all.
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I agree. In the absence of controversy, I find the SOTU addresses little different from campaign speeches, boring, repetitive, and vacuous. I rarely waste time with them.
Watching Trump dump on Dems could be sponge-worthy, though.
That would make for some great video. See how congress critters interact with normal people, sans security goons - make the press "circulate" through the crowd as well.
I would say this...considering the sixteen presentations by Bush II and Obama....there’s virtually zero value to these. I did enjoy the first two given by Reagan, but the others given by him were just average political chat features. The worst ever given was the 1978 SOTU episode with Jimmy Carter.
Who really wants to see Pelosi’s face behind Prez Trump or the Rat’s turning their backs on him etc. Have the speech some where else.
Excellent point.
I like it.
Pittsburg, Milwaukee, Detroit, St. Louis, Dallas, San Antonio are all stinking left wing bastions. Why should POTUS go their?
He needs to go to real America. Places like Cape Girardeau MZ, Harrisonburg VA, Charleston WV, Athens OH or Knoxville TN. Those are the type of towns were his base is from.
Just brief the American people from the Whitehouse. The stage at the house chamber allows the media to show scowling dems or even some of the youngster hip disrespectful demo to make cat calls. FU
Do what you do best, talk to the people. Then, off to the side, have a table with a stack of 100 bills....representing the budget. Juxtapose the stack with a penny from your pocket.....show the world what San Fran Nan and Crazy Up Chuckie Shumer is closing the government over...........pathetic un-American scum.
I am afraid it will be a circus. The dumbles won’t sit on their hands and scowl.
They will show their asses and turn it into a travesty.
Athens, Tennessee would be real interesting.
She’s worried about her own security& not ours. Fund the wall!
I say enter the lion’s den and show them who’s boss
Typical Trump overflow rally.
Take it to a boarder town in Texas.....
I do.
I hope the Donald holds a rally and has a big screen behind him alternately flashing the pictures of pecker puss Pelosi and Schumer the tumor scowling.
His SOTHU could be a scathing indictment of these two criminals who will do anything for illegal aliens and nothing for Americans.
If I was Trump the last place I’d trust Pulaski is sitting behind me with a big hammer.
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan are states that put candidate Trump over the top and destroyed Granny Pickles hopes of plopping her fat butt behind the Resolute desk.
He needs to show those states some love BEFORE the next election and remind them WHY they are doing better economically. Real Americans live in those states too.
As far as Virginia goes the northern counties are the most populous in the state and safely in dem hands. I’m not sure a non-democrat will carry the state for a long, long time.
This is the problem with obsessive hatred. A person makes a total ass out of one’s self looking for any and all ways to showcase the hate.
I’m thinking ‘question time’ in a Parliament. It’d be ugly.
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