President Trump gives a blockbuster state of the union address, Stacey Abrams responds, and Bernie Babbles.

I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

Well, today we're going to go through in detail, the state of the union address. The responses

from Bernie Sanders and from Stacey Abrams, and a brief response from Kamala Harris.

We're going to go through

all of that. Plus, the media are obsessed with Nancy Pelosi clapping because when President

Trump gives a good speech, the story is that Nancy Pelosi sat behind him ruffling through papers

and clapping. It was, wow, just the unbelievable clapage of Nancy Pelosi. We'll get to all of that

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a pretty horrendous job of responding to President Trump's speech. It seems that they had a basic

rule, which is that they were not going to clap for anything. And then Nancy Pelosi, in all of her

wisdom, might lead them once in a while in clapping. But President Trump successfully made them

look silly in what they chose to clap for and what they did not choose to clap for. Meanwhile, he gave what was one of the best speeches of his career. Now, it was delivered with typical Trump sort of half interest because he was reading from a teleprompter. All of his best moments came when he was off teleprompter, when he was sort of riffing with the room or something would happen and then he'd drop a funny line. And what was weird about the entire event is that we live in an extraordinarily politically divided time, but it was kind of a feel good speech. You came away from the speech thinking, okay, well, that was kind of nice, right? Like everybody seemed to get along and maybe the country isn't in that much trouble, which is what Trump was going for. So let's jump right into President Trump's State of the Union address. The theme of his address was choosing greatness.

That was the overarching theme. And his basic idea was that America not only should be great again,

but also America has been great in the past. And this is a narrative that Trump is on solid ground

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