Recapping the State of the Union 24 Hours In Advance

This will have been a national embarrassment.

Hey guys, I was planning to watch President Trump’s State of the Union Address on Tuesday night, then stay up late to write a searing, fact-based critique for this morning’s post. But then I accidentally made plans to do literally anything else in the world. My bad!

Luckily, Big Don is fairly predictable these days, so I was able to write my analysis a full day in advance. This should cover all my bases—hopefully it’s not too confusing!

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Lies. Threats. Insults. These are the main takeaways from President Donald Trump’s annual State of the Union address tomorrow, which occurred last night.

The speech, which the president will deliver to a joint session of Congress at approximately 9 p.m. Eastern yesterday, met even the most pessimistic expectations. It was a tour of the familiar: grievances repeated, enemies named, facts treated as a kind of optional garnish.

Republicans applauded. Democrats groaned. Here’s what will have been said.

The president spent considerable time on the economy, calling it the greatest in the history of perhaps any civilization. Democrat leaders will surely dispute these claims in their next-day response several days from now (which is today), though some in Congress began challenging the president’s contentions almost immediately—tomorrow, as of press time.

Perhaps the most outrageous moment of the evening was when the president insulted America’s staunchest historical allies, which will only further degrade our international relations, once he says it. European leaders immediately worked to calm an unsettled market in early-morning trading this afternoon.

The words that the president will have spoken won’t be easily forgotten by the everyday Americans who watched Tuesday night or by writers who imagined them on Monday. Frankly, the speech was/will be an embarrassment. Not in the sense that it surprised anyone, as evidenced by this document. But in a time of cataclysmic divide, Americans need executive leadership. And tomorrow, the president used his most important annual address to sow future chaos.

It happened yesterday. It happened last year. It will happen tomorrow. It just keeps happening.

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