pelosi is a useless waste of a human life.

I agree...wholeheartedly!!!!!

Fine...I usually watch FOX, anyway.

We can call our next big election cycle "The Hunt For Red November".

If "they" won't listen, their denial of reality does not make their reality so. A = A.

The MSM told him they would not televise it, so he figured it wouldnt make any difference. His shot would be to do a "rally" and discuss the state of the union there.

Pelosi knew that Trump would get support for the wall in this speech. Thats why she didnt want it. Amazing to me that pelosi actually wants open borders, Who are these great people that are going to come in? The way I see it, the immigrants are coming here for the goodies, not to build up our country.

At this point, if I were the President I would have a statement from the Oval Office and lay everything out that he has done. Then I'd simply say the following:

"At first, I was willing to own this shutdown. That was when I believed that I could come to a compromise with Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats. But I was mistaken in that belief. So as of now, the Democrats own this shutdown: lock, stock, and barrel. They are the ones who are unwilling to come to the table. They are the ones who are unwilling to compromise on a position which only a few years ago they voted to support! So I'll just leave it here: my door is open. When you're ready to end the shut down, you'll find me right here waiting with pen in hand.

I will not compromise with the safety of the American people - to whom I swore an oath to serve and defend. If the Democrats are not willing protect and defend the American people, then the People of the United States will make it very clear to them that they need to change their minds and I call upon all freedom-loving Americans to call upon their Representatives and make their voiced heard."

I think he's decided that he can give any speech he wants without calling it a State of the Union. The advantage of tweaking Pelosi by giving it somewhere else is counterbalanced by eventually having the full circus that the State of the Union has become.

Interestingly the only other time that a President's request to address a joint session has not been agreed to was an Obama Request that happened to match the day of a Republican Presidential debate. Boehner said that the House was just coming back into session that day and that there wasn't time for the necessary resolution and other business as well as the three hour security sweep.

He asked for a one day delay which Obama reluctantly agreed to because it would put him up against the NFL opening.

There was a lot of grumbling about how unprecedented Boehner's request for a delay was.

I have been saying this from the beginning. In fact he should hold it there and allow only 1 news media mic and camera, requiring them to act as a pool. Then send recordings to ALL Congress persons with a signature required for receipt. If a Congress person refuses to sign for the video they should be Officially censured and then hopefully a recall election called in their state for refusal.

I'm not a fan of the current stagecraft involved with the SOTU address. It's more consistent with monarchial trappings, and has become a sideshow, complete with demonstrators and contempt displays by the Democrats. As I might have guessed, this preposterous ceremony was a product of the Wilson administration, and Woodrow Wilson was as close to a dictator as we've ever had.

The SOTU address should be delivered from the oval office, with a feed to both the House and Senate, and no press. That way the President can focus on the facts, uninterrupted, and the American people can hear what is said, undistracted by the irrelevant clown show around him.

This is part of the same trend as the media clamoring to stop broadcasting press conferences live so they can filter and misrepresent what he says.

I hope you're not wrong...

Trump should make his State of the Union from Mar-A-Lago and point to a photo montage of past State of the Unions and Washington in general and say, in his best impression of Howard Roark, say "I do not think of you." or perhaps "I do not need you."

You've learned nothing from the first two years of the Trump term.
I'm looking forward to whatever Trump has up his sleeve in this game of 4D chess with the left.
This apparent "blink" was nothing more than the setup for the next move. He knows that compromise will not work with the left and setting something up to expose them for who they are, again,...traitors to the Constitution and "We the People".
I could be wrong, but I doubt it.

At last report the President has decided not to deliver anything called "State of the Union Address" in any venue except the House of Representatives.

What game might he be playing this time? Trump doesn't take a dump without a plan. (Pardon the pun, and with apologies to Fred Dalton Thompson.)

Well, Trump blinked:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trum...

He is not going to deliver SOTU speech until shutdown is over.

He is setting a bad precedent.

He should have delivered the speech from somewhere else. This emboldens the left. They take it as a victory. Trump is mistaken if he thinks compromise works with the left and they will reciprocate.

Will never happen.

I only saw the headlines, but it sounds asinine. Son a cual peor.

I agree.

What is the rationale for seeing Congress on the floor with their idiotic yelps and sit and stand routines. We don't want to see that, had enough of it for many years.

Especially not wanting to see a Hussein lecturing SOTU Justices about their decisions (wrongly).

I've always thought that if I were president I'd bring back the fireside chats. Go straight to the people without all the distractions. One could go fairly deep with the people on matters in that format.

No doubt that the Dems simply want to muzzle the Pres.

The president should deliver the speech from the Oval Office.

That would have the sweet benefit of not seeing Pelosi's mummy like face behind him.

Also, we would be spared from the non-clapping, sitting like stone democrats throughout his speech.

Maybe President Trump can make his State of the Union address at the Lincoln Memorial with the Covington Christian High School teens so brutalized by days of ongoing fake news.

Now that would be something.