Grade Trump's Speech

[OSR stands with Israel]

I would give a B+ or A-

[Suburbia]

B.

It was a triangulating-type speech. A Clinton 1995-ish type speech.

However, he is still unpopular.

[Lambsbread]

B-. The comments about investigations, late-term abortion, immigration, and socialism were laughable. But there were a lot of really memorable moments. In fact, it was largely conciliatory to some leftist causes like prison reform and ending wars.

But yeah, he still sucks.

[The Dowager Mod]

He managed to not drool on his tie or crap his pants, so a solid C.

[ProudModerate2]

C+

[TPIG]

I thought it was a pretty darn good speech. So many powerful stories told, and I really loved the focus on history. I give it an A.

[Alabama_Indy10]

Great speech with many great guests. I give it an A.

[Statilius the Epicurean]

Didn't watch it but voted F.

[Blue3]

C+/B- (which is really good for him... I'm not grading on a curve)

I agree with this:

B-. The comments about investigations, late-term abortion, immigration, and socialism were laughable. But there were a lot of really memorable moments. In fact, it was largely conciliatory to some leftist causes like prison reform and ending wars.

But yeah, he still sucks.

Also the "Hillary would be in Korean War 2 now" part was odd.

Peace with the Taliban was noteworthy.

The "happy birthday" song near the end woke me up.


There was a decent amount of "feel good" stuff, and I think there were some real areas of possible progress pointed out: paid family leave, prescription drug costs, etc.

[DrScholl]

F. I didn't watch it, but from what I've read and heard it was his usual silliness.

[Bidenworth2020]

I thought it was a pretty darn good speech. So many powerful stories told, and I really loved the focus on history. I give it an A.

[Gass3268]

Big fat F as it was evil

[pbrower2a]

He gets some platitudes right, but he did give himself complete credit for there being no war with North Korea.

[7,052,770]

Abortion hysteria, immigration hysteria, and Mueller tinfoil hat nonsense each cost him a letter grade. D.

[Hindsight was 2020]

He went an a xenophobic rant about immigrants and hypocritically gave some of the most partisan lines in a SOTU address ever while calling for unity. But he didn’t poop his pants so a C+

[Illiniwek]

It’s a B. He did well for himself. But it won’t change anything.

[Flyersfan232]

I thought it was a pretty darn good speech. So many powerful stories told, and I really loved the focus on history. I give it an A.

I love when he look at Bernie and aoc when he talk about socialism

[pbrower2a]

I thought it was a pretty darn good speech. So many powerful stories told, and I really loved the focus on history. I give it an A.

I love when he look at Bernie and aoc when he talk about socialism

Profit, profit over everything
Damn the public, give 'em the shaft!
We don't need excessive government
All we need is plenty of graft!
We don't want any Commie unions
Our profits to annoy!
Send the liberals and their pinko friends
All on a one-way journey to Hanoi!

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

B

[Former Dean Phillips Supporters for Haley (I guess???!?) 👁️]

It was pretty decent compared to other speeches Trump has given, which makes it an F on a normal standard for how a competent President would be graded.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

F. I didn't watch it, but from what I've read and heard it was his usual silliness.

[BlueSwan]

Didn't watch yet, but I suspect that people are grading based on the incredibly low bar everybody sets for Trump. The speech might have been good by Trumps standards, but was it actually a good speech? I doubt that very much.

[ηєω ƒяσηтιєя]

Didn't watch yet, but I suspect that people are grading based on the incredibly low bar everybody sets for Trump. The speech might have been good by Trumps standards, but was it actually a good speech? I doubt that very much.

[Rookie Yinzer]

It was pretty decent compared to other speeches Trump has given, which makes it an F on a normal standard for how a competent President would be graded.

[OSR stands with Israel]

I thought it was a pretty darn good speech. So many powerful stories told, and I really loved the focus on history. I give it an A.

I love when he look at Bernie and aoc when he talk about socialism

That was one of the best moments of the SOTU, when he talked about how the US will never become a Socialist Country.