A photo of Joshua Trump, the 11-year-old invited to attend the State of the Union Tuesday night because he’s been bullied for his name, went viral because he looked the way many of us were feeling: sleepy.

His head slumped toward his left shoulder, lips partially open in a peaceful somnolent stupor, Trump dozed off while the rest of America listened in relative indifference.

A writer from Elle said he “deeply” related to Trump’s sleepiness, which was “channeling the spirit of all of America.” If a sleeping child becomes a symbol for the effect of our president’s State of the Union, perhaps that’s not such a bad thing.

Boring Trump is better than the alternative.

Rather than creating an uproar (and a legal fight) by announcing a national security emergency over the U.S.-Mexico border, President Trump made good on his promise to call for unity. There's reason to doubt Trump will bring about unity, but in any event, the toned-down language is out of character.

That may have been the only remarkable aspect of an otherwise unremarkable speech: dull, long (almost an hour and a half), and full of maudlin appeals to ideals that seemed better fit for cheap picture books (“This is the time to search for the tallest summit, and set our sights on the brightest star”), the SOTU speech was plain boring.

So, nobody could blame young Mr. Trump for dozing off. As for the rest of us, we can be grateful that for one night at least, we got boring Trump, a welcome respite.