Trump's State of the Union speech: Do not adjust your TV set
by Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Feb 03, 2019
3 minutes
WASHINGTON - Cynics often dismiss the annual State of the Union speech as a useless ritual. They're wrong.
The words, to be sure, are usually forgettable. But the event itself - the pomp-filled spectacle, the partisan applause and the equally partisan silences, unscripted reactions by Supreme Court justices and members of Congress - are always worth seeing.
And on Tuesday, when President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress and
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