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You're the first person I have seen comment on it. It was clear to me that they were laughing at him. It happened two or three times.

Yes, it was more than once. I think the best example and the one that rattled him the most was when he was talking about a partial budget freeze and then added that it should start next year. The GOP attendees laughed at him and this gimmick of instituting it only after another year of out-of-control spending. That clearly irritated him and he then he said "that's how budgets are done", which I guess was his excuse for not doing it now. I'll bet you anything that line was NOT on his tele-prompter. I think he ad-libbed it as a response to the GOP laughter.

I think they also laughed at him when he said "climate change" had an "overwhelming scientific consensus" or something along those lines. Yes, "global warming" is a joke and anyone who preaches that we should take it seriously should be ridiculed.

Yes, yes, you’re right on all counts. Very good memory. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a President laughed at during a SOTU before. He deserved it though.