How the Women in White Made the President Look Powerless

There was little substantively to differentiate Donald Trump’s second State of the Union address from his first delivered last year. Despite a penchant for calling Democrats “evil,” “unhinged,” and an “angry mob,” he called again for unity. He recycled his promise to lower prescription drug prices and rebuild infrastructure, made outlandish claims about wage growth, and bragged about energy exports.

Among his special guests, once again, he praised an Hispanic-American ICE agent, and called upon grieving parents of a child who was murdered by an immigrant, to push the false narrative that immigrants are criminals contra evidence that they commit crimes at lower rates than native-born Americans.

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