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It's the NPR Politics podcast here to talk about President Trump's address to a joint

session of Congress Tuesday night. I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House. I'm Susan Davis.

I cover Congress. I'm Scott Horsley. I also cover the White House. And I'm Ron Elving Editor

Correspondent. And we are here in the studio like 90 minutes removed from the end of the president's

address to a joint session of Congress. This was not technically a state of the union, though it sure

did look like one. The president was introduced by the House Sergeant at Arms.

The president of the United States. So what was it like in that room? Take us in there as the

you know as the president walks in. You're up on a gallery in a gallery sort of looking down on the

scene. So you're right. So the press sort of is behind the president and up above them. See

if sort of a bird's eye view of the whole chamber. I mean, the thing I would say my broad takeaway

from tonight is that this was just normal, right? I mean, like that is what made this so unusual is

that President Trump tonight was record scratch a traditional politician. It was very conventional.

I had the same impression. As some of the policies he was talking about, they came across as maybe

more conventional than they were. The things he said about immigration would represent a pretty

radical change if we actually were to go through with adopting the kind of policy he talked about

in terms of a reform. But the tone was very conventional. It was for an unconventional person.

Let's use the word. We've talked for a year, a year and a half, wondering when Donald Trump would

start to act a little bit more presidential. Tonight he acted thoroughly, presidentially. It was

the first time he gave a presidential performance. And I would hazard the guess it was the first time

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