Reside updates: Trump’s allies lash out at Zelenskyy

The nation will hear a brand new president sing a far totally different tune in his prime-time handle earlier than Congress on Tuesday night time. Some Individuals will lustily sing alongside. Others will plug their ears.

The previous tune is out — the one the place a president declares “we strongly help NATO,” “I consider strongly in free commerce” and Washington should do extra to advertise clear air, clear water, girls’s well being and civil rights.

That was Donald Trump in 2017.

That was again when gestures of bipartisanship and appeals to nationwide unity have been nonetheless within the combine on the night time the president comes earlier than Congress to carry forth on the state of the union. Trump, then new on the job, was simply getting his footing within the halls of energy and never able to stomp on every part.

It could be three extra years earlier than Individuals would see Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, then the Home speaker and his State of the Union host within the chamber, performatively rip up a replica of Trump’s speech in disgust over its contents.

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