President Trump delivers his State of the Union address Tuesday night at the Capitol, in front of Vice President Pence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). Each year, around Groundhog Day, Trump emerges to give a one-night bipartisan appeal, and Tuesday night’s rendition was, by Trumpian standards, generous. We must build bridges of cooperation and trust — not drive the wedge of disunity.”On Tuesday night, Trump said: “The agenda I will lay out this evening is not a Republican agenda or a Democrat agenda. Some of Trump’s words, likewise, were unifying, such as his call to eliminate HIV in 10 years (a proposal that would be more convincing if Trump hadn’t proposed cutting AIDS funding). But it was difficult to escape the conclusion that Trump is just reading the words he was given because he’s supposed to.

Source: Washington Post February 06, 2019 04:32 UTC