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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPresident Donald Trump Postpones State Of The Union Until Shutdown Ends
The president backed down from his vow to go forward as planned after the House speaker said she would not take steps to authorize the speech during the shutdown.
President Donald Trump said late Wednesday he would postpone his State of the Union address until the partial government shutdown ends and that he was not looking for an alternative venue amid an ongoing stalemate with Democratic leaders.
I will do the Address when the Shutdown is over, the president said on Twitter, noting that he was not looking for an alternative venue for the SOTU Address because there is no venue that can compete with the history, tradition and importance of the House Chamber.
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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-pelosi-state-of-the-union_us_5c493c49e4b0287e5b87d4ec
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)No one wants to hear your stupid, manipulative republican-russian lies. So just bag your stupid SOTU BS, go back to Mar-A-Fuggin-Lago. While there you and your billionaire republican buddies can fatten up on a few more buckets of russian caviar, and then go golfing to squander many more millions of our hard-earned tax dollars on golden, gourmet, glorious luxuries for yourselves. That's the only thing you KGOP republiwankers are good at.
* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief
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Pachamama
(16,887 posts)The Man-baby Russian Agent is getting a lesson in how the Constitution works....
pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)LiberalFighter
(51,094 posts)It won't have the grandeur and stature of having it in the House Chamber. It likely would not have the media coverage either.
smb
(3,475 posts)...where he convinced the networks to give him air time for a bunch of (more) witless (than usual) yammering that didn't even have his usual carnival-barker energy.
Squinch
(51,016 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)I'll be he's really mad now.
tblue37
(65,488 posts)to surrender on the wall and reopening the government.
I wish everyone would stop dancing in the end zone about this.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Feeding a fire is no way to go.
OR a narcissist.