{"id":12457,"date":"2018-01-31T17:37:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T01:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12457"},"modified":"2024-06-04T19:02:02","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T02:02:02","slug":"trumps-first-sotu-a-new-american-moment-well-that-parts-true-bradcast-1312018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12457","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s First SOTU: ‘A New American Moment’ (Well, THAT Part’s True): ‘BradCast’ 1\/31\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>, we try to make sense (wish us luck!) of Donald Trump’s first, anything-but-normal State of the Union Address<\/a> on Tuesday night. [Audio link to show follows below.<\/i>]\n

After some quick news headlines — (on another top Trump official resigning<\/a> in shame, another senior Republican Congressman announcing<\/a> he won’t run for reelection, a Democratic Senator avoiding<\/a> a second corruption trial, and a literal GOP train-wreck<\/a>) — we dive into our special coverage of what used to be a solemn and largely serious U.S. tradition.<\/p>\n

We’re joined today for commentary, fact-checking and other post-SOTU analysis by DAVE JOHNSON<\/b>, longtime blogger<\/a>, creator of “Seeing the Forest”<\/a>, and former Senior Fellow at Campaign for America’s Future<\/a>, and TARA DEVLIN<\/b>, comedian, creator of RDTDaily.com<\/a> and host of the weekly, TaraBuster<\/i> podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Desi Doyen joins us as well, of course, to help break down and fact-check<\/a> Trump’s misleading claims<\/a> and outright SOTU lies<\/a> on the economy, tax cuts, healthcare, immigration, drug prices, dangerous “national security” plans, his deceptive infrastructure proposal, his racist dog-whistles and shameless attempts at fear-mongering the American people during Tuesday night’s joint session of Congress.<\/p>\n

We also review just some of the things that Trump didn’t<\/i> mention in his speech for some reason (America’s deadly gun epidemic and climate change, among others), whether Democrats will be able to counter the coming tsunami of GOP propaganda in advance of the 2018 midterms, and how Rep. Joe Kennedy, III performed in his Democratic Response<\/a> to Trump’s address.<\/p>\n

“It’s another flim-flam plan from the greatest con-man who ever lived,” explains Devlin about at least one of the items mentioned above. “That’s going to be one of those things that in a few months Trump is going to deny he said. It ain’t gonna happen. The opposite is going to happen,” says Johnson about another one of those items. Take your pick. But tune in for our special coverage on a very lively show amid very dark times!…<\/p>\n

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