February 1, 2018: Trump
is feeling good about his State of the Union Address. So he decides to tweet. First, he says 45.6 million people
watched, which is true.
Then he asserts that was the
largest audience in history.
Like so much of what he says this is untrue. It’s less than watched George W.
Bush’s first speech in 2002 (51.7 million) or his second in 2003 (62 million).
It’s less than listened to Obama’s first State of the Union Address in 2009 (48
million). And it is way less than watched Bill Clinton’s State of the Union
Addresses.
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His audiences were bigger. |
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IMMIGRATION in the news! The
president has revoked Temporary Protective Status for 200,000 Salvadorians living
legally in this country. More than half arrived before 1990. Now they may be
forced to return to a country they barely remember. Between them, they have 193,000
children (combined), born in the United States, and therefore citizens.
If only they were Norwegians (see: 1/11/18).
If they were, we can bet President “I’m-the-least-racist-person-you-know”
Trump would find some way to make it possible for all to remain.
While we’re on the topic, did you know 9,000 Dreamers, now at
risk of being deported, are working as teachers in this country? That includes New Mexico “Teacher of the Year,” Ivonne Orozco.
Neither a “rapist,” nor a “murderer.”
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