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James, the establishment commentariat gave fairly high marks to Trump's stay of the union, declaring he was vigorous in full attack mode, touched all the basis of what he had done in those first five or six weeks.

You know, we even said he'd top George Washington.

That's the best first month in the history of every administration.

Poor FDR just got left in the dust.

I mean, all FDR did in his first month was close the banks, funnel out hundreds of millions

of dollars of relief to a depressed country and get us off the gold standard.

But that wasn't nearly as big as Trump.

You know, but I think whatever the short term gains, and I'm not sure there will be, I think

this is a bad speech and it's not going to wear well.

Not surprisingly, it's full of lies.

Migration figures are wrong on claims in military.

Enlistmen suddenly started to go up when he was president, Ukraine, on Elon Musk,

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