DEMS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump urged bipartisanship during his State of the Union address Tuesday [2-5-19]. Then he promptly called for Democrats to help him build a border wall, enact a new abortion ban and preemptively end the House’s investigations. Needless to say, it did not go over well. ‘WTF,’ said Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) afterward about Trump’s immigration rhetoric. ‘Sickening,’ added Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill). Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) said he wasn’t sure Washington needs to even hold a State of the Union anymore. And Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) invoked Richard Nixon three times when discussing Trump’s speech…In what often sounded like a campaign speech, Trump renewed his hard-line immigration stance while retelling stories of violence inflicted on innocent victims by undocumented immigrants. That particularly frustrated Democrats, who are still angry about the 35-day shutdown and are looking to avoid another funding lapse at the end of next week even as Trump continues to demand money for his border wall.”
–Burgess Everett, Heather Caygle and John Bresnahan, “‘WTF’: Dems rip Trump speech as phony outreach,” Politico, February 6, 2019 12:21 am