@HoustonSam @DB@Jazzhead @mystery-ak If he would just give the state of the union as required by the constitution some place else other than the house it would cut the house out of it entirely.
The problem with this is that it would cut out
almost all of the American viewership. That's Trump's one and only concern at this time.
Bill O'Reilly revealed on the radio today that the only reason why Trump agreed to wait to give the SOTU speech until after the government shutdown is the fact that
all of the (MSM?) networks flatly refused to televise the speech if delivered
anywhere other than the
Capitol. That "anywhere" apparently rules out even the Oval Office.
As I have said repeatedly, Trump is determined to deliver a bombshell SOTU speech that will be viewed by the highest possible number of Americans. This is precisely why Pelosi has used politically unprecedented tricks to try to force Trump not to present the SOTU as a speech, but as a letter to Congress (which is all that the Constitution actually requires, in fact). The MSM is in collusion with the Dems in this politically nasty effort. (They would, of course, neglect to cover anything really important in a written SOTU address.) Ted Cruz has stated publicly that Pelosi is
badly frightened by the prospect of letting Trump speak directly to the American people. That's all the more reason for Trump to wait until he can demand that Pelosi re-open the Capitol to him--with TV cameras and all.)
I suspect that the only thing that surprised Trump in the most recent round of the fight was the fact that the MSM would
dare to refuse airing the SOTU address merely on the flimsy excuse that it was delivered somewhere other than the Capitol. (Trump has not underestimated the Dems. But I think that even Trump "misunderestimated" the MSM's willingness to show so clearly its incredibly unethical, incredibly crooked hand in the whole mess. [I confess that the MSM surprised even me in this regard--but I'm actually pleased by their show of their own political insanity.])
Yeah, the MSM really is one of America's biggest enemies. No doubt about it. And I believe Trump will make sure that a rapidly growing number of people realize this through recent developments. I believe he will make the MSM pay dearly for their flagrantly un-American, anti-democratic behavior. I believe that signing off on a CR that does not fund the wall,
per se, and then immediately announcing that the military is now clearly authorized to build it--authorized by the very dereliction of the crooked Progressives in Congress and the MSM--will win the overall battle for Trump.
Remember: Trump doesn't need to win a knockout or even a knockdown with every move in the fight. He just needs to land the last devastating punch in the fight. (That won't happen until the military prosecutions begin--which may very well get moved up on Trump's schedule now. Prosecuting top FBI officials and [then?] the Clintons will open up the most awful Pandora's box in American history--which mess will also snare our amazingly
evil MSM.)
Right now, I see everything as proceeding per Trump's plan--with the normal fits and starts (and deceptions) of war. I am as optimistic as ever. (A lot of anti-Trumpers have called Trump an idiot. Well, he's a strangely crass dude, not at all likeable for a lot of "more conspicuously decent" folks, but he seems to be very good in these fights. [That's why the Dems are surely desperate to see him murdered--hopefully along with Pence, thereby making
Pelosi our POTUS, of course. Under these deadly circumstances,
we'd better come together behind our duly elected President Trump])