Trump obliterates Democrats but overpromises on economy

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That wasn’t a speech designed to “own the libs” but to obliterate them. The split screens produced by President Donald Trump’s address to the joint session of Congress were devastating.

Historians of different political persuasions will disagree about Trump’s character and legacy, but they will all admit his political genius. Tuesday’s speech may have been his Mona Lisa.

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