"And the hotel is beautiful," Trump gushed, "and everything is beautiful." Hours later - standing in an ornate ballroom at the Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia - Trump dropped the stuffy titles to thank "Paul and Mitch" and "Jim," the governor of West Virginia who is an old friend.
In a tweet a few minutes later, he claimed that television viewership of his State of the Union speech Tuesday night was "the highest number in history," even though it was not. Thursday, as he tweet-attacked Democrats for not supporting his agenda. Trump called on Democrats to work with his party, but added that it would be easier to simply have fewer Democrats in Congress.Īfter several days of staying on script and acting presidential, Trump was back to being Trump. He bragged about all of the promises he has fulfilled - "promises plus," he dubbed it - and claimed that his party is united like never before. He shared his dislike of the terms "dreamers" and "community college," claimed that a senator told him he was a better president than George Washington or Abraham Lincoln and suggested the challenges facing felons trying to get a job will vanish in this booming economy. He took a swipe at House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and the "stone-cold" Democrats who did not applaud his address on Tuesday night. He still rattled through his policy priorities, but offered the friendly GOP crowd much more.
Instead of stiffly reading from a teleprompter as he did Tuesday night, Trump was excited and animated, using his hands to illustrate his points as he went off script. Standing before Republican lawmakers at a luxury resort in West Virginia on Thursday afternoon, President Donald Trump delivered a Trump-ified version of the State of the Union speech.
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