Needless to say, ABC, CBS, and NBC offered far different reactions Tuesday night to President Trump’s address to Congress (think State of the Union, but not granted that title in a president’s first year) than they did in immediately celebrating last year’s partisan State of the Union from Joe Biden.
For 2025, they were more lackadaisical in their disdain for Trump’s “intensely partisan” “campaign rally speech” marred by “loud, visceral, ugly” denunciations of the theatrics throughout by Democrats, including Congressman Al Green’s (D-TX).
CBS Evening News co-anchor John Dickerson predictably found reason to dislike it: “[W]hile voters say that lowering prices is there a key issue, it was arguably the thing that got him elected, he spent very little of the speech on that and indeed he devoted more direct attention and detail to the…
