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Post by Admin on Feb 6, 2019 17:27:37 GMT
President Trump said the United States will never become a socialist country in his 2019 State of the Union address. "We stand with the Venezuelan people in their noble quest for freedom — and we condemn the brutality of the Maduro regime, whose socialist policies have turned that nation from being the wealthiest in South America into a state of abject poverty and despair," Trump said Tuesday night. "Here, in the United States, we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country," the president said. "America was founded on liberty and independence - not government coercion, domination, and control. We are born free, and we will stay free."
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Post by Admin on Feb 7, 2019 17:29:13 GMT
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., finds himself in another controversy involving race and gender over his rebuttal Tuesday night to President Donald Trump's State of the Union address. On Twitter and other social media, as well as some publications, Sanders came under fire for a move seen as competing with Stacey Abrams, the former Georgia gubernatorial candidate who was chosen by the Democrats to respond to the president's speech. The Root, an Afrocentric progressive online magazine, ran a headline reading, "Hey, Bernie Sanders Can You STFU After the SOTU and Let Stacey Abrams Shine?" Abrams was the first African American woman to give the official opposition State of the Union rebuttal.
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Post by Admin on Feb 8, 2019 17:30:41 GMT
An 11-year-old boy called Joshua Trump who was invited by his presidential namesake to his State of the Union speech fell asleep and has been hailed as a hero of the anti-Trump resistance. Joshua Trump, a middle-school student from Delaware, was invited to the delayed event by Melania Trump. He dropped out of school after being bullied because of his last name. As cameras panned to the audience, the boy could be seen napping while Donald Trump renewed his promise to build a US-Mexico border and declared illegal immigration “an urgent national crisis”.
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Post by Admin on Feb 9, 2019 17:43:49 GMT
President Donald Trump spoke for more than an hour and 20 minutes last night, but the moment that may be remembered best from his State of the Union address had no words at all. It was when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) stood and applauded a line from Trump’s speech in a way that seemed rife with sarcasm to many observers. The moment came after an eyebrow-raising call for unity from Trump that seemed at direct odds with his own long history of Twitter insults, especially coming on the heels of a pre-speech luncheon in which he reportedly insulted multiple political rivals. “We must reject the politics of revenge, resistance and retribution, and embrace the boundless potential of cooperation, compromise and the common good,” Trump said in his State of the Union address. Pelosi then stood and clapped, aiming her applause at Trump in a way comic Patton Oswalt summed up in a tweet:
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Post by Admin on Feb 11, 2019 17:42:14 GMT
Tiffany Trump donned a white outfit for her father President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, and sent Twitter into overdrive as people speculated over the significance. The conjecture came because female Democratic lawmakers also pre-arranged wearing white to send the message that they “are fighting for the economic security of women & families,” as Rep. Lois Frankel (D-Fla.) noted earlier on Twitter.
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