What you saw tonight was President Trump, I think, and with one hand reaching out his hand,

two Democrats, and with the other hand, holding up a fist. And this is almost the conundrum of Donald Trump.

That rule last night was grossly divided. I've never seen Nancy Pelosi's face like that.

She seems to kind of embody the bitterness that belongs in the Democrat Party right now.

And I wish she'd talked about sanctions on the Russians.

He was selling sweet tasting candy with poison in it.

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, the show about the man who hates sharks, Donald Trump.

I'm Jacob Weisberg. Last night, the president gave his first state of the union address.

And in case you missed it, Trump called for burning more coal, building more nuclear weapons,

and sending more terrorists to Guantanamo. He took credit for economic growth for the low

unemployment rate and for the soaring stock market. He neglected to address Russian interference

in our elections, or his ongoing interference in the special council's investigation.

It was a long speech, an hour and twenty minutes. And predictably, it was a highly exploitative one.

Trump filled the gallery with victims. He had two sets of parents of girls murdered by immigrants

from Central America who were members of the MS-13 gang. He had the parents of the young American

student, Otto Warnbeer, who died at the hands of the North Korean regime. He also had a North

Korean defector and amputee who waved the crutches he used to escape the country.

The suffering of these people is very real, but using that suffering to taunt political opponents

and to justify inhumane and reckless policies is the definition of political demigodgery.

But that wasn't even the worst of it. You might have missed the most sinister part of Trump's speech.

My keen-eyed colleague Yasha Monk caught it on Twitter and then wrote it up in slate.

It was when Trump called on Congress to empower every cabinet secretary with the authority to

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