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Trump’s divisive address to the nation, annotated
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President Donald Trump tried to hit the reset button with Americans on Wednesday night by reminding them of the Biden administration and arguing his own policies have driven down prices and made America great.
It was a factually challenged address that reads like a screed. It may appeal to Trump’s MAGA base, but it isn’t likely to convince moderate and independent voters who are worried about the economy.
CNN’s Fact Check team took a run through the speech, but I went line by line because much of what he said was not fact checkable and it’s important to try to follow his train of thought.
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This Is What Presidential Panic Looks Like
Donald Trump delivered a fear-drenched rant live from the White House.
The president of the United States just barged into America’s living rooms like an angry, confused grandfather to tell us all that we are ungrateful whelps.
When a president asks for network time, it’s usually to announce something important. But tonight, Donald Trump did not give anything like a normal speech or address. He was clearly working from a prepared text, but it sounded like one he’d written—or dictated angrily—himself, because it was full of bizarre howlers that even Trump’s second-rate speech-writing shop would probably have avoided, such as his assertion that inflation when he took office was the worst it had been in 48 years. (Why did he pick 1977 as a benchmark? Who knows. But he’s wrong.) He read the speech quickly, his voice rising in frustration as he hurled one lie after another into the camera.
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