White House Says Trump's SOTU Will Be 'Unifying' And 'Optimistic.' History Promises Something Else.
WASHINGTON — If history is any guide, President Donald Trump will head to Capitol Hill Tuesday night and call for unity, bipartisanship and a trillion-dollar-plus infrastructure package to fix the nation’s roads and bridges.
And if history is any guide, he will within days or even hours of his State of the Union address let loose divisive attacks against Democrats and other critics and veer off on unrelated tangents. There will not be any infrastructure package.
“When he tries to be presidential, it just isn’t believable,” said David Jolly, a former Republican congressman from Florida. “Even when he speaks rationally, no one trusts him. And he owns that.”
A senior White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity at the insistence of the White House, said Trump’s third address to a joint session of Congress would be “an inspiring vision of American greatness,” claiming the address would be both “optimistic” and “unifying.”
Yet Trump’s two previous such speeches — the State of the Union last January and a 2017 address five weeks after taking office — called for unity, only to be followed by actions and statements that appealed primarily to the roughly 35 percent of the country that supports him strongly.
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