The State of the Union is divided. How should Christians respond? This is Jim Denison's

daily article for Wednesday, February 6th, 2019. President Trump delivered the 2019 State of the

Union address last night before a joint session of the 116th Congress. I watched the address,

then surveyed coverage of it this morning. It is as if there were two different speeches delivered.

The Blaze headlines, an astounding number of viewers, approved of Trump's State of the Union speech, here are the results.

A Fox columnist claims that, once again, America saw that Trump on the stump is very, very good.

By contrast, the Washington Post is carrying a column titled,

More Trump Fantasy Land as the world fries.

CNN has an article titled,

Critics laugh off Trump's mispronunciations once again.

Van Jones claimed that the speech was psychotically incoherent.

None of this should surprise us.

The New Yorker interviewed a Georgetown University scholar this week who called President Trump,

an amateur in the White House, and claimed that he looks hideously weak.

By contrast, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders recently called Mr. Trump,

the most productive president in modern history, and claimed,

it's indisputable that our country has never been stronger than it is today under the most productive president in modern history, and claimed it's indisputable that our country

has never been stronger than it is today under the leadership of President Trump.

It seems difficult to find someone who is neutral about the president.

The latest poll shows that 39.9% of Americans approve of the job he is doing, while 55.6% disapprove.

Only 4.5% are undecided. Our divisions over the president reflect a growing partisan divide in our country.

Pew Research Center asked more than 5,000 people about several specific political issues and found that, on average,

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