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Dulcinea

(6,629 posts) Wed Jan 31, 2018, 08:51 AM Jan 2018

Trump's Big Speech: More Pep Rally Than Bipartisan Breakthrough

President Trump's first State of the Union address was billed as a bid for unity, a call for all to rise above party and faction in pursuit of national ideas and ideals.

In fact, scattered throughout the 80-minute speech were several moments that might qualify as outreach. But if you blinked, you might have missed them.

https://www.npr.org/2018/01/31/582047737/trump-s-first-sotu-more-pep-rally-than-bipartisan-breakthrough

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For a pep rally, it missed one essential ingredient C_U_L8R Jan 2018 #1

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1. For a pep rally, it missed one essential ingredient

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Wed Jan 31, 2018, 09:01 AM

Jan 2018

It had no pep. Not a bit. Trump gave a pretty awkward and lethargic reading of a teleprompter. Maybe Republicans applaud anything but the rest of us thought it was a snoozefest. And beneath it all was the same selfish and hateful ideology. Not really something that makes anyone's heart beat faster or feel more optimistic. Same old same old.

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