Donald Trump's second State of the Union address rumbled out onto the airways last night, one week late due to the shutdown and Nancy Pelosi's annoying grit.
The president harped on how well the economy was doing, and seemed to be taking most of the credit for that excellent situation. But we expect that from politicians. They never meet a chunk of good news they aren't eager to take credit for.
Trump had a lot of guests, mostly old military types and victims of various things the man has a solution for: stuff that could be built on the southern border.
One odd moment: a holocaust survivor sat next to a WWII vet who helped liberated a death camp. Behind them, the upholstery of chairs contained swastikas in the pattern. Well, it's an old Indian symbol, or so I've heard.
(In my junior high classrooms it showed up on the cast iron radiators. In town, it ringed the bottoms of street lights. Also, we hosted the headquarters of the American Nazi Party, but that might have been a coincidence.)
As expected, Trump spent a lot of time listing the crimes of illegal immigrants. One thing those guys do (he says) is hog American jobs. Nevertheless (he was forced to admit) we Americans are holding down more jobs than ever before in the history of this country. Including women.
Including women in Congress.
And that last superlative might come back to bite the man in his ass. A lot of those women are Democrats who came to office on a platform that countered Trump. And at least one of them is very hot to impeach the MF.
Trump took the opportunity to announce his next summit with Kim Jong-un. He also stated ("in my opinion") if he hadn't been elected president we would be deep in a very bad war with North Korea right now. That's hard to say (I mean in reality; Trump finds it very easy to say, and has done so repeatedly), but there's no question Trump's love affair with Kim has kept things mellow over there. No real progress on denuclearization, unfortunately, but nice and mellow.
By the end of the address, Trump had a warning for Congress. And he whipped it out twice.
The only things that could disrupt the stratospheric progress of America into a boundless future was "foolish wars, politics, and ridiculous partisan investigations." To repeat: "We could have peace and legislation or war and investigation."
No question Congress could get together and produce useful legislation. On fixing our crumbling infrastructure, lowering the cost of prescription drugs, and so forth. But if those folks want to see real action ...and a thick, spiky signature at the bottom of those bills, they're going to have to knock off the witch hunts.
This is not news. At a press conference following the 2018 midterm election, Trump implied he would not cooperate (i.e., sign bills passed by Congress) if those traitors kept up with their threatened investigations.
The man is calling for unity and cooperation. He just doesn't want to be the first item on the Congressional agenda: Send Trump packing, then get busy making America better without him.
But if he's true to his threats, this might be the only way it CAN be done.
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