Opinion
Trump’s bizarrely brilliant State of the Union speech
By John Podhoretz
February 6, 2019 | 12:20am | Updated
It was perhaps the single most bananas political moment of the Trump presidency.
Newly elected Democratic women in the House of Representatives, dressed all in white, stood up and cheered while the very president they entered politics to oppose and defeat looked on approvingly.
He had just cited a statistic that 58 percent of the new jobs in America had gone to women. They immediately applied this stat to themselves, and in an act of almost staggering solipsism, leapt to their feet and began to celebrate their own elections.
Then Trump advised them to stay standing because they were going to like the next sentence — a sentence about how there were more women in Congress than ever before. To which they and their fellow Democrats began chanting “USA! USA!†— in the middle of a Trump speech! And the president looked down upon these people for whom the word “impeachment†is a mantra … and smiled.
No one had that in the betting pool.
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