Perhaps Trump’s comfort came from the fact that he’s grown accustomed to the job, and has bent it to his will. Apparent divergences from the script, seeming to cast some phrases from fact to error, were signaled by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, seated behind Trump, reading through the prepared script. Through the speech, they were everywhere, Trumpisms studding the address (none, perhaps, quite as meaningless as the seeming ad-lib “the radical regime in Iran - it is a radical regime, they do bad, bad things”). A shift, early on, came when Trump responded, off-the-cuff, to a group of Congressmen chanting “USA! USA!” with “That sounds so good” - a meaningless little remark that only caught the ear by dint of how unlike Trump’s past speeches before Congress it had been. They felt unnatural coming from a leader whose charge, in general and throughout his speech, comes from his eagerness to find an opponent. The speech began and ended with niceties that obviously did not come easily to the President, a pleasant run-through of positive and optimistic ideas that felt meaningless both because of their “Veep”ian cliché (“This is the time to search for the tallest summit and set our sights on the brightest star” and “I am asking you to choose greatness” were among the calls at the end of a speech that had been largely fuelled by resentments) and because of their insincerity.
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