The President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, giving the longest state of the union address on record,

clocking in at something like one hour, 48 minutes, beating his own previous record set last year at what was not officially the State of the Union,

and was a joint address to Congress, giving a rousing description of the United States of America

that he sees when he looks out the window, even if it isn't the one that most Americans,

according to polls, see in terms of the economic prosperity.

In addition to some very sharp, very partisan, even nasty attacks on Democrats, and some populist economic proposals, the president taking time

to make healthy use of stories both sad and illustrative and inspiring stories of fellow Americans.

We saw not one but two congressional medals of honor awarded, one to a 100-year-old Navy fighter

pilot from World War II Korea and Vietnam.

The other one to Chief Foreign Officer Eric Slover

injured during the Maduro raid just last month.

I do not doubt that his supporters will absolutely love his speech

and his critics will find much to hate about it,

but there were definitely moments

that I think any American would appreciate family.

Yeah, and what Americans wanted to hear more than anything else was about the economy.

And the president certainly did what we hear a lot on a daily basis about how he thinks

it's the greatest economy in the world and all of the sort of hyperbole that is classic vintage Trump.

But he did put in some specifics, as you said, populist economic proposals in there that will please the Republicans who are sitting in that chamber right now who are all up for re-election

and are very worried about that re-election. We talked about things that really are hitting

hard, Americans hard. Energy costs said that he is going to try to get the AI companies to

pay for and the tech companies to pay for how much energy they are using,

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