Trump did a particularly effective job of choosing guests that even Democrats had to applaud, like WW II vets from the Normandy invasion and a Dachau survivor one of those vets rescued. And a girl who has survived (so far) brain cancer.
I don’t agree with everything Trump views as accomplishments. His support for lowering sentences for drug dealers was a mistake, in my view.
Later ... Both CNN and CBS ran polls looking at approval ratings for the SOTU speech and both found around 76% of those watching approved. CNN wrote:
The glowing reviews came largely from the Republicans (87% very positive) and independents (57% very positive) who tuned in. Democratic speech-watchers largely had negative responses (64% very or somewhat negative).The important finding is the 57% of independents who liked it, Trump needs them to get reelected. The mean girls in white did themselves no favor by acting petulant. It was a bad look for them.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi shuffling papers behind Trump as he spoke was especially rude and illmannered. She earns her unpopularity anew at almost every public appearance.
