I don't really think any news was made last night, but what happened last night is all anyone is talking about today. Donald Trump was Donald Trump, saying the same things Donald Trump always says. He left out a bit of the bluster, and he did it all on a very high-profile stage. Like other presidents giving State of the Union addresses (which this was technically not), he used various citizens in the audience as props to make his points. He got applause from his party more often than not, and he rarely got it from the Democrats, who pulled stunts like inviting illegal aliens and dressing in white - the meaning of which I neither know nor can be bothered to find out.
But it says a lot about what passes for news these days that Trump is thought to have done so well last night. He pushed his agenda on trade, health care, job growth, energy, national security . . . all the same things that have been his agenda all along. He made no changes or adjustments. He made no substantive news.
That said, he didn't do anything that gives the press or the Democrats and excuse to call him crazy, unhinged or unstable - and thus he came off as "presidential" (whatever that means) and he "hit a home run."
