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The American Mind

Trump’s Triumphant State of the Union | Ep. 3, Segment 2: The Past

The American Mind

The Claremont Institute

Philosophy, News, Society & Culture

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump shows himself to be a based boomer as he delivers a powerful SOTU address that launches from the Wild West to Outer Space. Our editors respond.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Born on the mountain top in Tennessee, green estate in the land of the three, raised in the

0:07.0

raised in the woods so he knew every tree, killed him a bar when he was only three.

0:12.0

Davy, Davy Crockin, King of the Wild Frontier.

0:17.0

Let's talk about the recent past.

0:21.0

So, Trump's State of the Union address in the midst of the Iowa

0:25.7

debacle, I mean this disaster in Iowa and in the midst of it all like a flower

0:30.6

springing from the ground. You have Trump who by the way has given some some great

0:36.8

speeches in these situations in the past. People forget because right afterwards the first state of the union right

0:44.3

afterwards an entire controversy erupts and this has happened to him a few times

0:49.6

last night he gave an incredible state of the union,

0:54.3

which people will be talking about in the right

0:55.9

for quite some time.

0:57.4

And we should talk about that, David.

1:00.5

Yeah, so listen, the pages of the American mind, we talk a lot about vitality and our

1:07.8

current time of moral and physical innervation. So when Trump said the line we've always been a frontier

1:15.8

nation I knew immediately that he was going to attack to space which is the

1:21.7

subject that's that's fascinated me.

1:23.6

My father worked for some time for NASA.

1:26.9

And Trump, I think whenever Americans hear about space and discuss space, it fires the imagination.

1:36.8

It fires these kinds of like seeds of these low embers of dying vitality in the country.

1:43.4

And so that was my favorite aspect of his speech

1:46.7

when he talked about fully funding the Artemis program.

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