When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi extended her hand in greeting before SOTU, President Trump didn't take it — a remarkable break with protocol that spoke volumes about the bitter divisions that have deepened under Trump
President Trump highlighted economic gains and his own case for reelection in his third State of the Union address Tuesday night to a joint session of Congress, where lawmakers have battled since September over whether he should be removed from office.
Trump offered few major policy proposals but presented a triumphant view of the nation’s progress under his administration. “The state of our union is stronger than ever before,” he declared. He also planned to cite milestone accomplishments on trade talks and national security, including the CIA-led raid that left Islamic State founder Abu Bakr Baghdadi dead in Syria, and the U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Suleimani in Iraq.
And he presented his accomplishments — namely, a revised North American trade agreement and criminal justice reform — as priorities that his predecessors failed to get done. But the partisan acrimony and pessimism that intensified throughout the trial cast a pall over the State of the Union address, belying whatever calls for bipartisanship and national unity were programmed into the president’s teleprompter.at the Senate trial. Partly as a result, his expected acquittal comes after the shortest presidential impeachment trial in history.
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