Trump Yields No Ground to Democrats in Combative State of Union

• Donald Trump called for bipartisanship in his State of the Union address -- on his terms.

 

• The president offered Democrats nothing in exchange for their votes to build his promised wall on the Mexican border, while he excoriated them for their positions on abortion, blocking his nominees in the Senate and “ridiculous partisan investigations.”

 

• In a speech delivered in the interlude between one partial government shutdown and the possible start of another, Trump didn’t meet his opposition in the middle so much as lay the groundwork for even more hostilities if they don’t concede.

 

• He offered no new plan to avoid a second shutdown and drew another line in the sand on his proposed border wall.

 

(Source: Bloomberg)