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Trump Addresses the Nation, the 2020 State of the Union

<p>On Tuesday&comma; February the 4th&comma; greeted by chants of &&num;8220&semi;four more years&comma;&&num;8221&semi; President Trump gave his 2020 State of the Union Address&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<table style&equals;"border-collapse&colon; collapse&semi; height&colon; 375px&semi;" width&equals;"637" align&equals;"center">&NewLine;<tbody>&NewLine;<tr>&NewLine;<td style&equals;"border-collapse&colon; collapse&semi; text-align&colon; center&semi;">&NewLine;<h3><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;punchingbagmedia&period;com&sol;products&sol;trump-coffee-mug-trump-pence-keep-america-great-2020-maga-republican-conservative-gift-red-handle-ceramic-coffee-mug-tea-cup&quest;&lowbar;pos&equals;1&amp&semi;&lowbar;sid&equals;08e04bfde&amp&semi;&lowbar;ss&equals;r"><strong><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;ff0000&semi;">A Punching Bag Post Exclusive Offer<&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;a><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h5><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;punchingbagmedia&period;com&sol;products&sol;trump-coffee-mug-trump-pence-keep-america-great-2020-maga-republican-conservative-gift-red-handle-ceramic-coffee-mug-tea-cup&quest;&lowbar;pos&equals;1&amp&semi;&lowbar;sid&equals;08e04bfde&amp&semi;&lowbar;ss&equals;r"><img class&equals;"" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;shopify&period;com&sol;s&sol;files&sol;1&sol;0272&sol;9610&sol;4557&sol;files&sol;82866959&lowbar;792091941276789&lowbar;7507284048050388992&lowbar;n&period;gif&quest;v&equals;1580593892" width&equals;"410" height&equals;"390" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;h5>&NewLine;<p><b><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">The next<&sol;span> <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;punchingbagmedia&period;com&sol;products&sol;trump-coffee-mug-trump-pence-keep-america-great-2020-maga-republican-conservative-gift-red-handle-ceramic-coffee-mug-tea-cup&quest;&lowbar;pos&equals;1&amp&semi;&lowbar;sid&equals;08e04bfde&amp&semi;&lowbar;ss&equals;r"><b><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;ff0000&semi;">ICONIC MUG<&sol;span><&sol;b>&&num;8230&semi; <b><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;0000ff&semi;">It&&num;8217&semi;s Winning Season Again<&sol;span><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;ff0000&semi;">&&num;8230&semi;Buy Now&excl;<&sol;span><&sol;b> <&sol;a><&sol;b><&sol;td>&NewLine;<&sol;tr>&NewLine;<&sol;tbody>&NewLine;<&sol;table>&NewLine;<p>This was one of the most majestic&comma; dignified and best-delivered speeches the President he has ever made&period; Perfectly orchestrated and with personal stories and demonstrations of the effects of his policies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He started with what is right&comma; economics&comma; respect overseas&comma; the military is good&comma; borders are secure&comma; lower food stamp and welfare rolls&period; This was a powerful message demonstrating the sheer numbers of areas that his policies have impacted&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At the conclusion of this segment&comma; Trump stated &&num;8220&semi;<em><strong>The state of our union is stronger than ever&excl;<&sol;strong><&sol;em>&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It was anticipated that the Democratic response would try to claim that the economy was not working for regular American&comma; Trump included some key statistics&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8211&semi; women filled 72&percnt; of all new jobs added<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8211&semi; the net worth of the bottom half of the American population has increased 47&percnt; &&num;8211&semi; three times higher than the top ten percent<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The event had several guests&comma; including&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8211&semi; one of the original Tuskeegee airmen&comma; who just turn 100 and who was with his great grandson&period; Trump promoted him to brigadier general that day&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8211&semi; a young girl who had applied for an Opportunity Scholarship to go to another school since the government school in her area was failing&period; Trump announced that she was receiving her scholarship and that he was asking Congress to fund a million of such scholarships&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8211&semi; a military wife and her two kids were surprised when her husband&comma; who was posted in Afghanistan&comma; greeted her there at the speech&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With regard to health insurance&comma; the President reiterated that he is protecting patients with pre-existing conditions&comma; and also that he will protect medicare and social security&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He talked about how his administration was approving more generic drugs than ever before and that prescription prices had actually gone done for the first time ever &lpar;a point the Democrats dispute&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He noted that he just passed an executive order mandating price transparency in medicine&period; The writer&&num;8217&semi;s own work on healthcare indicates that this is a crucial step in creating competition and forcing prices down&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a shot at the radical left&comma; he said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;<em><strong>we will never let socialism destroy American Healthcare&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em>&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Drug overdoses declined for the first time in over 30 years&comma; and it is a goal to eradicate AIDS by the end of this decade&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Rush Limbaugh&comma; who just announced that he has stage four lung cancer&comma; was in attendance and standing next to Melania Trump&period; President Trump announced that he would receive the highest civilian award&comma; the Medal of Freedom&period; It was presented by Melania&comma; then and there&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A lot more was covered in this speech which lasted close to two hours&period; It was as Presidential as any in history&period; There was no mention of the impeachment hearing&period; The Democratic response was thin and weak&comma; every point having already been anticipated&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At the end&comma; you could see Nancy Pelosi ripping up the speech as Trump descended the stage&period; Can&&num;8217&semi;t say I blame her&comma; on this night at least&comma; her party is toast&&num;8230&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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