Eric the Blue

I tuned into the State of the Union Address last night, because I enjoy the absurd pageantry that precedes the actual speech, and, of course, once Trump starts talking anything can happen, and you might not want to miss it. Once he started talking, however, I was quickly bored, plus over on the Big-10 Network the Gophers were giving #3 Michigan a bit of a tussle in Ann Arbor. Before I switched Trump had repeated his claim that, thanks to him, America is the “hottest country on earth,” but I was watching basketball by the time the flatter fest with the hockey players began. I guess the goalie is now going to get the Presidential Medal of Freedom? Good for him. He’ll be in the company of Rush Limbaugh.

Regarding the claim that the country’s economy is HOT, I looked up the recent GDP figures. The growth figures over the previous year, coming forward from 2017, the first year of Trump’s first term, look like this:

2.3%, 2.9%, 2.3%, (-3.5%), 5.7%, 2.1%, 2.5%, 2.8%, 2.2%

So that’s 2017 through 2025: Trump’s first 4-year term, followed by the four Biden years, followed by the first year of Trump’s second term. We’re back! Too hot to touch!

I don’t know what Trump said to wrap things up, probably about the time the T-wolves’ late game on the west coast was headed into halftime, but according to Ann Coulter it was “beautiful” and reminded her that to be President you should probably have to be at least a fifth generation American, since it takes awhile for love of country to get in the genes. Trump’s mother was born in Scotland, and his father’s parents were both born in Germany–circumstances that, in the world according to Ann Coulter, may explain some things.