Trump reportedly tried to edit the State of the Union to make it meaner to Democrats

President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, scheduled for 9 pm ET Tuesday, was supposed to be a unity speech. Early spin from the White House was that Trump was supposed going to reach across the aisle, make nice with Democrats after a bruising shutdown fight, and look for policies that could build common ground.

But according to a new report from the New York Times’s Peter Baker, that’s all nonsense. Trump may mouth words of unity during the speech, but behind the scenes he’s been raring to pick a partisan fight. Here’s the key part of Baker’s piece:

What this underscores, as Baker implies, is that any talk of unity is a con job — and a pretty transparent one at that. In both of his previous State of the Union addresses, Trump has made gestures toward bipartisanship and reaching across the aisle. We know what happened after that, and there’s no reason to think this one will be different.

American politics is profoundly polarized, with the Republican Party drifting in a particularly extreme direction under the guidance of a leader whose political style is more similar to elected authoritarians like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán than any American president in recent history. There is increasingly little room for compromise, and Trump has neither strong political incentives nor the personal inclination to do so. No speech can change this fundamental reality.

You can watch a live stream of the State of the Union starting at 9 pm on the White House YouTube channel.

Sourse: breakingnews.ie

Trump reportedly tried to edit the State of the Union to make it meaner to Democrats

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