On Wednesday morning, it remained evident ABC, CBS, and NBC were still largely uninterested in and almost seemed burdened by having to cover Tuesday night’s address by President Trump to a joint session of Congress. It predictably lacked the ebullience from their takes on Joe Biden’s 2024 State of the Union, but also the outright hostility from the four speeches in Trump’s first term.
Unsurprisingly, however, ABC’s Good Morning America still led the way in finding things to complain about, even if it felt like they were going through the motions.
Co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos decried Trump’s “combative address” that was “the most polarizing” presidential address ever to a joint session of Congress and naturally “taunted Democrats”.
Chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce similarly huffed about Trump…