Posted on 02/03/2018 5:26:09 AM PST by Kaslin
Donald Trump sure hit it out of the park Tuesday night.
Like millions of other people in America who tuned in to the president's first State of the Union Address, I'm still cheering.
I wasn't in Washington, in Soviet California, or anywhere else in Trump's America.
I was actually on a cruise ship with my wife on the other side of the world in the Tasman Sea between New Zealand and Australia.
After I watched Trump's prime-time TV address live in my cabin on the Celebrity Solstice - Wednesday afternoon, my time - I tweeted that it was so phenomenal I wanted to watch it all over again.
I wasn't kidding - or seasick.
I hadn't heard such a great speech by a president in a long, long time. And 75 percent of its 46 million viewers said they liked it, too, according to the polls.
The Hate Trump Media disagreed, of course. They thought the address went on too long.
But that was because they couldn't wait to start picking it apart for being too gloomy, too mean to illegal immigrants or for mentioning "America" too many times.
Trump was interrupted more than a hundred times by the applause of everyone in the chamber except a bunch of bitter and sullen Democrats.
The Democrats - some of them dressed in black as part of some phony protest - refused to show the slightest sign of approval for the president when he pointed out how well America's workers and the economy are doing.
Lowest black unemployment rate in recorded history?Lowest Latino unemployment in history? Lowest overall unemployment rate in years?
Republicans stood and cheered every time.
Democrats sat and stared with their arms folded.
Or they showed disgust by rolling their eyes or making hideous faces that the GOP is already turning into deadly TV ads for the fall election.
The Democrats couldn't have clapped for President Trump even if they wanted to - even if he had brought Nancy Pelosi back from the dead - because they were sitting on their hands.
What the Democrats did to disrespect the president with their body language and petty behavior only helped the president, who proved he knows a thing or three about staging a state of the union address.
My father was the first to invite special guests or heroes to the address, where he could introduce them, praise them and tie them to what he'd say in his speech.
And on his first try President Trump has perfected the idea.
Every person he introduced during his speech told a story he wanted to tell, from the New Mexico policeman and his wife who adopted the baby of a heroin addict to the business owners who gave their employees bonuses because of Trump's income tax cuts.
For a long time I've been waiting for the president to deliver a great quote that would outlive his presidency - other than his latest tweet.
My father and John F. Kennedy did it many times.
And on Tuesday night I think Trump finally did it when he said it was his duty - and the duty of every elected official in the chamber - to defend the right of every American "to the American Dream. Because Americans are dreamers, too."
For me that was his best moment.
Everyone watching had to agree with the fact that everybody in America is a dreamer - except of course the Democrats and their teammates in the liberal media who saw Trump's statement as a cruel insult to the DACA kids who were brought here illegally at a young age.
The Democrats will never admit it, or understand it, but they hurt themselves badly Tuesday night.
They looked like a bunch of losers and only made the president look better, more reasonable and more presidential.
They also proved that they hate Trump more than they love America.
And they did it in front of millions of American voters as the president was giving his best speech yet.
Great read.
The same Michael Reagan that was making his dad roll over in his grave up until the election, and I believe beyond as well?
Sure Michael. Now yoy’re on board. So what?
The truth is none of what is taking place right now, would have been if you had your way in 2016.
I’m really sick of you fair weather fowl, and a do mean foul.
Nice, it was the best speech I’ve heard since his dad. Great Presidents have something in common, they speak to the hearts of the American people.
L8r
I think you might be confusing Michael Reagan with the other son, Ron Reagan (Ronald Prescott Reagan), a ballet dancer and longtime vocal liberal.
They sure do.
Very well said. Thank you.
No confusion at all. Michael was one of the worst never trumpers.
Why are these cruise ships called Celebrity? It is more like Infamy.
They showed that their lust for power is greater than their concern for the constituents that they profess to love.
A normal person who wants to improve would look at the evidence of how their policies failed and start looking for a new way forward. Democrats, instead, want to double down on their failures.
Capitalism and freedom work. It's been demonstrated time and again. If the Democrats care about the downtrodden and want to make them the uptrodden as much as they say they do, perhaps it's time for them to quit politics and join some of the NGOs that go into dunghole countries and try to improve lives. Then they would be out of our faces and (maybe) actually helping people for the first time in their lives.
Wrong!
Michael was making ghastly anti-Trump comments in 2016,
It was so much unlike him, but after a while I had to accept it.
“I’m Still cheering?” Perhaps for the speech, but he wasn’t before this to my knowledge.
No he isn’t!.....Doughty remembers correctly!
Michael wasn’t AS insulting as Ron, imo, but he was a Never Trump .....oh indeed!
Some of us have long memories.
Here:
http://www.unionleader.com/Another-View-Michael-Reagan-Trump-is-no-Reagan-Republican
I’ve been a big fan of Michael over the years. I was very disappointed in him.
Long forgotton story of Michael. Molested as a child, and his subsequen battle. Pretty sure he has a god perspective of events today.
Geez give the guy some credit for coming around.
It took me a while to warm up to Trump, as well.
I don’t need Michael Reagan to tell me President Trump gave a great speech..?
I, like others, do remember him being a never Trumper.
Which is kind illegal trying to become a citizen... Go to the end of the line.
It's something we should welcome. After all, when that happens, somewhere an angel gets its wings.
That might be an exaggeration........
I'm with you. If he's coming around to seeing that President Trump isn't the monster that he was led to believe he was, good for him.
Ron wasn’t just a #nevertrumper. He was a charter member of #neverreagan too.
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