Donald Trump may have celebrated Team USA for winning the gold at the Olympics in hockey, but he was not in a puckish mood during his State of the Union speech. Instead, Trump stuck to his tried-and-true script of denouncing Democrats as ‘sick’, mocking concerns about affordability and cooing over Melania as a great new movie star. Far from nobody ever seeing anything like it, Trump delivered what everybody has already seen.

At times, the State of the Union devolved into a saccharine reality show as Trump focused in on the plight or bravery of one of the plain folks who served as his props

At times, the State of the Union devolved into a saccharine reality show as Trump focused in on the plight or bravery of one of the plain folks who served as his props

Ever the salesman, he was not shy with the superlatives, declaring that America is the ‘hottest’ country in the world – ‘bigger, better, richer, stronger than ever before.’ If there was one thing that was longer than ever, it was Trump’s own address, which set a record........

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