Part Of Reason Trump Reopened Gov’t? He Wanted To Deliver SOTU In Proper Venue

on January 31, 2019 in Washington, DC.
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President Trump sees the delivery of the State of the Union address as one presidential tradition that deserves “reverence,” in the New York Times’ words. And being able to deliver the speech in the proper venue played a partial role in his decision to reopen the government temporarily.

Trump spends more time practicing for his SOTU speech than other public speaking events because he knows he will stick to the script, according to the Times.

The President spent at least two hours rehearsing with his chief policy adviser Stephen Miller over the weekend and practiced in front of several administration officials on Monday. According to the Times, he’s expected to do another run-through with a teleprompter in front of aides on Tuesday.

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  1. President Trump sees the delivery of the State of the Union address as
    one presidential tradition that deserves “reverence,” in the New York Times’ words.

    Read that one opening sentence and thought, “gotta be a haberman article”, and yeppers, it is.

  2. Doesn’t matter how much he practices, he’ll still suck. The man can’t read, he has no public speaking ability, and those wouldn’t matter because his material is offensive. But hey let’s let Trump flame out in the ‘proper venue’.

  3. And Nancy knew that would be the case. And she played it brilliantly.

  4. And then he will stink up the whole place…

  5. This is gonna suck worse than the Super Bore, I mean Bowl.

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