Trump’s address to Congress showed the country’s stark partisan divide
The Hindu
President Trump's divisive speech to Congress highlighted his partisan approach, cultural flashpoints, and controversial policies.
A president's speech to Congress — even without the formal gloss of a State of the Union address — is typically a time for a call to national unity and predictable claims about the country being strong.
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But that wasn’t President Donald Trump’s plan. His speech on Tuesday night was relentlessly partisan, boasting about his election victory and criticizing Democrats for failing to recognize his accomplishments.
The hard edge reflected Mr. Trump’s steamroller approach to his second term, brushing aside Opposition and demanding loyalty throughout the federal government.
Mr. Trump set a tone of division almost from his first words, calling his predecessor Joe Biden the worst president in history and chiding Democrats as so stinting in their praise of him they would not even grant him perfunctory applause.
He placed himself alongside the country's first president, George Washington, when discussing what he said were the flood of early achievements of his second term.
He was speaking to a house divided. Republicans stood and cheered. For Democrats, it was silence, with occasional shouts of protest, with the only applause when he announced that Ukraine wanted to restart peace negotiations.
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