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Dulcinea

(8,739 posts) Wed Mar 5, 2025, 06:34 AM Mar 2025

6 takeaways from Trump's pointedly partisan address to Congress

(NPR) After a firehose of a first six weeks back in the White House, President Trump delivered a boastful and partisan address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night.

Coming in just under 100 minutes, it was the longest such speech in modern history. And it saw a Democratic member of Congress be kicked out, several other Democrats walk out at various points and a Republican Party firmly and enthusiastically backing their president.

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/05/nx-s1-5318104/trump-joint-address-congress-takeaways

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6 takeaways from Trump's pointedly partisan address to Congress (Original Post) Dulcinea Mar 2025 OP

If only the Democrats started emphasizing the middle class in 2016, as Slotkin did yewterday... Beastly Boy Mar 2025 #1

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1. If only the Democrats started emphasizing the middle class in 2016, as Slotkin did yewterday...