Trump Doubles Down
In his State of the Union address, the president had the option of reaching out. He chose to stay the course.
by David Frum
Feb 06, 2019
2 minutes
It would be charitable to describe the 2019 State of the Union address as unfocused. President Donald Trump veered and skittered, sometimes yodeling blood-curdling calls to culture war, sometimes vaguely alluding to family leave and infrastructure modernization. He and his team could not decide what they wanted to do. Unsurprisingly, they did not do it.
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