Whoever came up with idea that President Donald Trump, the most divisive president in history, should make a plea to the nation for unity must be very out of touch or cynical.
“Together we can break decades of political stalemate. We can bridge old divisions, heal old wounds, build new coalitions, forge new solutions, and unlock the extraordinary promise of America’s future,” said the same president who just hours before had been excoriating Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and other leading Democrats and pressing aides to make the speech tougher on Democrats.
All State of the Union speeches attempt to put the administration's best foot forward, but to reinvent entirely oneself in such glaring terms inevitably earns the president derision and further erodes a weak president's already diminishing credibility.