Shockingly, Trump's address to congress was not entirely truthful—and Republicans like it that way
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In a stunning repeat of every other time Donald Trump opened his mouth to emit words, a great number of those words failed to match up with events in the real world. With the help of speechwriters, Trump managed to elevate his speech from the level of a third-grader, to that of a third-grader blandly mocking past presidential speeches. But even if the framing changed, the content was most the same.
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