Doing my bloggerly duty, I watched it, but most of it sounded like this to me:
...and I felt like this little boy named Trump:
Below is the address in full, and here is an annotated transcript from The New York Times, and there are also annotated/fact-checked transcripts from Politico and from NBC.
Full speech:
I tried to pay attention enough to take a few notes, and then I turned toward smarter people's responses.
A few of my initial thoughts.
Overall, he managed to read the words real good. Yay for an extra week of practice! He did continue his marathon-heavy breathing as he has done in recent speeches. Although I was on the look-out, I didn't see any concerning speech traits this time, other than possibly some inconsistent hypernasal resonance. Still gonna watch for alarming speech trends.
"If there is going to be peace and legislation, there cannot be war and investigation."
Was there laughter or shocked murmurs in the gallery during his "if the glove doesn't fit you must acquit" moment when he called for an end to the investigations? If there wasn't laughter in the Capitol building, there was laughter in my house. Don't hold your breath, honey. Legislation and peace are coming because of investigations! Our Members of Congress are pretty smart and talented. I think they can handle the job.
"No issue better illustrates the divide between America’s working class and America's political class than illegal immigration. Wealthy politicians and donors push for open borders while living their lives behind walls and gates and guards." Typical of the right-wing, he used a false comparison between his beloved wall and gates to private residences.
"In the last two years, our brave ICE officers made 266,000 arrests of criminal aliens, including those charged or convicted of nearly 100,000 assaults. 30,000 sex crimes, and 4,000 killings or murders." His charged immigration talk went on a long time, not surprisingly, with questionable "facts" about the number of criminals crossing into the U.S. to murder us in our sleep.
"It is unacceptable that Americans pay vastly more than people in other countries for the exact same drugs, often made in the exact same place. This is wrong, unfair, and together we can stop it. And we will stop it fast." I loved the look on McConnell's face with SCROTUS talked about lowering pharmaceutical prices.
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| Awww...am I gonna lose my big pharma lunch money? |
Did you find his segues -- or lack of them -- a little bizarre?
After he introduced the little girl with cancer and talked about her treatment, there was a non-sequitur stuffed in there with no follow-up. One sentence and then off to the next topic:
Thank you, Grace. You are a great inspiration to everyone in this room. Thank you very much. Many childhood cancers have not seen new therapies in decades.
My budget will ask Congress for $500 million over the next 10 years to fund this critical life-saving research. To help support working parents, the time has come to pass school choice for America's children.
I am also proud to be the first president to include in my budget a plan for nationwide paid family leave— so that every new parent has the chance to bond with their newborn child.
And later with not even a tiny pause between subjects:
And let us reaffirm a fundamental truth — all children — born and unborn— are made in the holy image of God. The final part of my agenda is to protect America's national security.Okayyyy....
"If I had not been elected president of the United States, we would right now, in my opinion, be in a major war with North Korea."
What the what? STOOOOPID!
There were positives: honoring WWII veterans and Holocaust survivors, as well as a police officer who rushed toward danger during the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh. These people were right to be honored, and it was moving.
The Democratic women were striking! It was so wonderful to see all the Democratic women dressed in suffragette white, especially when they spontaneously started cheering on each other and themselves and the "USA! USA!" when 45 noted that there are more women in Congress than ever before.
And Nancy Pelosi rocked it again. From her eye-rolls to her smirks to the "Fuck You Clap" -- she is a power to be reckoned with!
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) February 6, 2019
Now, smarter people's response:
Stacy Abrams gave a strong Democratic response:
Vladimir Putin:
...and the best summary and analysis, from Stephen Colbert:
And more the best of the Tweets. I love Americans!
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