Perhaps as fewer people bother to watch, the SOTU will no longer be a media event.
Didn’t the President in the early days of the Republic just send a written report to Congress and that was it? Why can’t we go back to those days?
I think it was all the way until 1923 that it was just a written report sent over. I believe I read that just the other day. The constitution does not require a dog and pony gathering, a response, blah, blah.
And the very words themselves “state of the union” define what the president is to send to congress from time to time.
If you asked your banker the state of your account, and he gave you a shopping list of things he wanted you to borrow money on, brought in his wife, some salespeople, and a few homeless drunks from off the street, you’d move your money tomorrow.
All you asked for was the state of your account...what’s the balance and recent activity.