Have you seen the last few posts? He has caved, sort of.
The current situations in Venezuela and Israel are a bit more important than the SOTU. He should concentrate on those, particularly with an interim SecDef (whose name I forgot) in charge of the Pentagon.
No I didn’t, until now. Oh well. He must have his reasons. I suspect he suspects he will win the showdown over the border funding and then use the SOTU to gloat.
He still has plenty of cards to play, another summit with North Korea, and Israeli-Arab peace plans to unveil among other things. He’s gonna have a good case to make in 2020, a la Reagan “you don’t change horses in the middle of the stream”.