Trump: This is our new American moment

It wasn't the speech I would have preferred, but I didn't really think we were going to get that. Given that President Trump choose the fairly traditional route for a State of the Union address, he came off about as well as presidents ever do. Even some of the schmaltzier elements were presented pretty well. I've never been the biggest fan of highlighting particular people and their acts of bravery or whatever, then asking them to stand in the crowd. I don't really see what it has to do with the state of the union. But like every other president, Trump went through this exercise, and the people he highlighted - from the exceptional border patrol agent to the young boy who went around putting flags on veterans' graves - were impossible not to appreciate.