Trump used speech to brag about ‘the great American comeback’ in highly partisan address as Republicans chanted ‘Four more years’
An emboldened Donald Trump bragged about the “great American comeback” in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, in a speech resembling an 81-minute re-election advert that skirted around the inconvenient truth that he remained in the final throes of his impeachment trial.
Only the third president to be impeached in US history, Trump addressed a joint chamber of Congress with still a day to go before he is almost certainly acquitted by Republican loyalists in the US Senate. Despite the ignominy of that position, he sounded remarkably upbeat, at times euphoric, in contrast with the “American carnage” he invoked at his inauguration three years ago.
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Source: Elections - theguardian.com
