The 2019 State of the Union was supposed to be a unity speech. But Trump wants to fight with Democrats.
President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, scheduled for 9 pm ET Tuesday, was supposed to be a unity speech. Early spin from the White House was that Trump was supposed going to reach across the aisle, make nice with Democrats after a bruising shutdown fight, and look for policies that could build common ground.
But according to a new report from the New York Times’s Peter Baker, that’s all nonsense.
