Opinion | A classic Trump speech, rich in showmanship and at odds with reality

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

74% : "America's momentum is back," Trump proclaimed.
74% : As an exercise in gilded reality, the speech was trademark Trump.
56% : Amid the partisan tension, Trump punctuated his speech with some heartwarming, Oprah-like flourishes, including one moment where his new Secret Service director, Sean Curran, handed an honorary Secret Service agent badge to a 13-year-old boy with brain cancer who hopes to become a law enforcement office.
50% : What got short shrift in the address is the degree to which Trump is dismantling a world order built over three-quarters of a century by the United States itself, through global engagement and multinational alliances.
49% : " In his second term, Trump has employed executive action more aggressively -- and pushed harder against the bounds of the Constitution's separation of powers -- than any other modern president.
40% : Trump, on the other hand, suggested that whatever pain his tariffs produce will be no more than "a little bit of an adjustment period" and "a little disturbance, but we're okay with that.
39% : Hard hit by this act of economic and political arson would be the working-class Americans who voted for Trump in part because they believed he would deliver a stronger economy and lower inflation.
35% : Trump redoubled his vows to reclaim the Panama Canal and acquire Greenland "one way or another."
31% : On the most ominous day of his second presidential term, Donald Trump swaggered through his address Tuesday to a joint session of Congress -- the master showman as always, creating an illusion at odds with an anxious reality.
30% : " That was a big claim, considering Trump is less than halfway through his first 100 days and what he has achieved thus far is mostly turmoil and a blizzard of legal challenges.
18% : But instead of reaching out to Democrats, Trump chided and threatened them.

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