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Trump Speech\u00a9\u00a0Daniel Kozin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The nation will hear a new president sing a far different tune in his prime-time address before Congress on Tuesday night. Some Americans will lustily sing along. Others will plug their ears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The old tune is out \u2014 the one where a president declares \u201cwe strongly support NATO,\u201d \u201cI believe strongly in free trade\u201d and Washington must do more to promote clean air, clean water, women\u2019s health and civil rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was Donald Trump in 2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was back when gestures of bipartisanship and appeals to national unity were still in the mix on the night the president comes before Congress to hold forth on the state of the union. Trump, then new at the job, was just getting his footing in the halls of power and not ready to stomp on everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trump Speech\u00a9\u00a0Tassanee Vejpongsa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It would be three more years before Americans would see Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, then the House speaker and his State of the Union host in the chamber, performatively rip up a copy<\/a> of Trump\u2019s speech in disgust over its contents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Tuesday, Americans who tune into Trump’s address will see whether he speaks to the whole country, as he mostly did in his first such speech in the chamber as president, or only to the roughly half who voted for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They will see also whether he hews to ceremony and common courtesies, as he did in 2017, or goes full bore on showmanship and incitement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Democratic lawmakers will react \u2014 whether they make a scene \u2014 is another question. At least four have invited fired federal workers to come as their guests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump gives the speech days after assailing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a> to his face and before the cameras in the Oval Office for not expressing sufficient gratitude for U.S. support in Ukraine’s war with Russia. It was a display of public humiliation by an American president to an allied foreign leader with no parallel in anyone’s memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trump Speech\u00a9\u00a0Tassanee Vejpongsa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Jarrett Borden, walking to lunch on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, Florida, this past week, expressed ambivalence about Trump, having heard a lot of \u201chogwash\u201d from him even while liking some of what he has done. Borden anticipates a good show Tuesday and will watch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI want to see if he\u2019s going to leave the mic open for Elon Musk<\/a>, like it\u2019s an open mic at a club or something,” he said, citing the billionaire architect of Trump’s civil service purge. “This is what he\u2019s been doing recently, which is comical.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Philadelphia, visual artist Nova Villanueva will spend Tuesday evening doing something \u2014 anything \u2014 else. She is into avoiding politics and social media altogether these fraught days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYeah, it\u2019s kind of sad,\u201d she said. “It\u2019s almost like I have to be ignorant to be at peace with myself and my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new president’s first speech to Congress is not designated a State of the Union address, coming so close to the Jan. 20 inauguration. But it serves the same purpose, offering an annual accounting of what has been done, what is ahead and what condition the country is in, as the president sees it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is customary in modern times for the president to say the state of the union is strong, no matter what a mess it may be in. Trump won the election saying the state of the union was in shambles and he was going to make it right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trump who addressed Congress on Feb. 28, 2017, is recognizable now, despite the measured tone and content of that speech. After all, he had already shocked the political class by assailing \u201cAmerican carnage\u201d from the inaugural stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He told Congress<\/a> that night he wanted NATO members to spend more on their armed forces, wanted trade to be \u201cfair\u201d as well as free, and wanted foreign countries in crises to be made stable enough so that people who fled to the U.S. could go back home. But he did not open his first term with the wrenching turns in foreign policy, civil service firings, stirrings of mass deportation or cries of \u201cdrill, baby, drill\u201d of today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trump Speech\u00a9\u00a0Tassanee Vejpongsa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In a line that could have come from any president of either party, Trump noted in his 2017 speech that, \u201cwith the help of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, we have formed a council with our neighbors in Canada to help ensure that women entrepreneurs have access to the networks, markets and capital they need to start a business and live out their financial dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now he belittles Trudeau as \u201cgovernor\u201d of a land he wants to make the 51st state and is about to slam with tariffs<\/a>, along with Mexico. Canadians, not known for displays of patriotism, are seething about their neighbor and rushing to buy and fly their flag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trump Speech Years Past\u00a9\u00a0Andrew Harnik<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In Philadelphia, small-time entrepreneur Michael Mangraviti cannot help but take some satisfaction in Trump’s scouring of the bureaucracy as the firings pile up with scant regard for how well people did their jobs or how those jobs helped keep services to the public running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe said for years and years, \u2018Drain the swamp, drain the swamp,\u2019\u201d Mangraviti said. \u201cBut, you know, now is the time to actually drain the swamp.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve seen time and time and time again that the government is horribly, horribly ineffective at everything it wants to do,\u201d he went on. “The fact that they\u2019re actually taking action on something that they say they\u2019re going to do, the fact that they\u2019re ready to take the ax and take it to our government, is something I appreciate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To Cassandra Piper, a Philadelphia instrumentalist, Trump’s move to stop making pennies<\/a> was a \u201cfine decision” \u2014 unlike everything else he has said and done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI comprehensively disapprove of the changes that are being made,” Piper said, stopping to speak while walking by the Liberty Bell Center. \u201cNot that I was all too happy with the status quo beforehand in the first place, but there\u2019s absolutely no good that can come from the inhumanity of mass deportation, something that this country has already been scarred by.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, too, with Trump’s selection of vaccination skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary and his choice of Musk to lead the effort to \u201ceffectively plunder the government of its resources,\u201d in Piper’s view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Hollywood, Florida, Borden, who is Black, said that to the extent Trump can take money that Washington spends overseas and pump it into the U.S. economy, \u201cthen you are making America great again. But do that without the racial overtones. Do that without the negative energy, and we\u2019re going to be OK.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think the world is just the world, and we should all just love each other,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abraham Lincoln might have agreed, as he summoned the \u201cbetter angels of our nature\u201d in an inaugural speech<\/a>, a month before the Civil War, that pleaded with Americans not to \u201cbreak our bonds of affection.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump had something to say on that subject, too, in 2017: \u201cWe all bleed the same blood.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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