I’m about the furthest towards a detractor you can be to the president without secret service scrutiny (I think?) and Crunch’s trolling aside… It was a decent speech.
The man’s abrupt topic swings were a little jarring, BUT he tended to go from feel good fluff or safe bipartisan sentiment into his more highly contentious/partisan talking points. So while it may have come off as poor speech flow, it did work to disrupt negative momentum from those who disagree with him.
Did he strike any “lets come together” moments? No, not really. There may be more common ground yet to come on health care which is a positive thing. Again, infrastructure was a huge missed opportunity on his part as far as I’m concerned. I get that there is a huge divide on how to pay for it still, but he could have focused more on this topic.
Trying to make the case that investigations are a threat to our prosperity was a… bold move?
I typically do refuse to watch any speech by him and didn’t watch the previous SOTU and prefer to read the transcripts the next day. His rambling speaking style tends to effect me like nails on a chalkboard.
But, the man is not a total train wreck (of a public speaker) when working from a script. Inspiring or unifying? No, but I think a 59% grade is fair of someone who’s personal and party politics I reject.
As to your trolling Crunch, I didn’t see the actual “4 pinochio’s” citation, but the live fact check I watched took issue with that line because of the religious implication being applied to Jewish believers. That it is uncharacteristic for a Jew to have said such a thing, and Trump did phrase it as if he was told this by one of the men there that evening. Maybe it is close to a direct quote though, I sure as hell wasn’t in the room with them. Also, it IS a stupid thing to fact check. I’ll leave the rest of your frothing alone.