The President just finished his State of the Union address to Congress. As is usual with these speeches, it covered a great many issues without going into much detail about most. Also as is usual, the images that accompanied the speech seem as powerful as the words. Three of these images stand out for me:
1. The parents of Otto Warmbier, the student tortured to death by his North Korean jailors, stood sobbing as the President recounted Otto's story.
2. The parents of two teenage girls who were murdered by MS-13 gang members on Long Island also cried as President Trump detailed what had happened to their daughters.
3. The members of the Congressional Black Caucus sat motionless as the Republican side of the Chamber gave a standing ovation to the President's statement that African American unemployment is now at the lowest level ever recorded.
The first two images were a clear indication to the nation of the pain inflicted by the evil of the North Korean regime and the illegal alien gang MS-13. The third image was a demonstration to the American people of the true depth of hatred by the Democrats directed towards the President. Imagine, after decades and decades of high unemployment among blacks, we finally get that number to an all time low, and the Congressional Black Caucus cannot bring themselves to applaud that accomplishment because it came under President Trump.
I know that many of the pundits will focus on the President's words more than these images. Nevertheless, for me, these were the most important aspects of the speech.
Overall, I rate this a highly successful speech by the President. Still, it was limited by the SOTU format. We will have to see in the coming days what the nation thought of it.
1. The parents of Otto Warmbier, the student tortured to death by his North Korean jailors, stood sobbing as the President recounted Otto's story.
2. The parents of two teenage girls who were murdered by MS-13 gang members on Long Island also cried as President Trump detailed what had happened to their daughters.
3. The members of the Congressional Black Caucus sat motionless as the Republican side of the Chamber gave a standing ovation to the President's statement that African American unemployment is now at the lowest level ever recorded.
The first two images were a clear indication to the nation of the pain inflicted by the evil of the North Korean regime and the illegal alien gang MS-13. The third image was a demonstration to the American people of the true depth of hatred by the Democrats directed towards the President. Imagine, after decades and decades of high unemployment among blacks, we finally get that number to an all time low, and the Congressional Black Caucus cannot bring themselves to applaud that accomplishment because it came under President Trump.
I know that many of the pundits will focus on the President's words more than these images. Nevertheless, for me, these were the most important aspects of the speech.
Overall, I rate this a highly successful speech by the President. Still, it was limited by the SOTU format. We will have to see in the coming days what the nation thought of it.
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