A Joint Session of Congress. US House Photo

How sad of a situation that we have to legitimately ask that question. I cringe when thinking about what might come out of his mouth in his first address to a joint session of Congress. He is the President the Nation didn’t want, and didn’t elect and is there because of the peculiarities of the Electoral College. Having lost the election by nearly 3 million votes, one would think that would make him humble and eager to win the confidence of the American Public.

That would be the reaction of a normal person. This isn’t a person who is normal. This is Donald Trump.

He has so many ways he can cause us all to want to hide under our beds. Maybe he will go Orwellian as he did when tweeted, “Any negative polls are fake news, just line CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election. Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting.”

Will he stand up and mouth one of Stalin’s favorite lines that the Press is the enemy of the people? If he does, watch for the people who applaud the remark. Those are the ones who should lose their seats in the next election. President George W. Bush knows and understands that the press is essential to democracy and freedom even if President Trump doesn’t grasp that fact.

Maybe we will finally get him to talk about his secret plan to defeat ISIS? Remember when he sat down with Bill O’Reilly and made the statement, “Nobody is bigger or better at the military than I am”? After electing him to fight ISIS, the only people he’s fought has been the press and Transgender school kids.

He’s sure to bring up the Affordable Care Act and talk about how 30 million people having healthcare plans now who didn’t have them before the act is somehow evil. That will be a tough sell to Congress especially in light of House Majority Whip Steve Scalisi (R-La) leaking the news that after the GOP plan being panned by their caucus, repeal and replacing Obamacare is no longer viable.

It will be interesting to see how he spins his request for 54 Billion Dollars in increased military spending in light of his campaign promise to deeply cut the Federal Deficit. It will also be interesting to see if his wall with Mexico and 1 Trillion Dollars infrastructure plans that he touted in the campaign will be brought up? Those are a couple of budget busters on their own.

Remember when the GOP Congress wanted to cut the budget under President Obama? The cacophony was deafening when cuts were not draconian and the GOP Members of the House crucified Speaker Boehner over being weak. Is all that going to be forgotten, or will the GOP discover their long lost principles?

How he is going to spin all the new military spending to the isolationist crowd who carried President Trump on their shoulders during the election. Think about it, if the USA is pulling back its footprint in the world as President Trump promised, why the need for all the new military spending? I’m sure he and Joseph Goebbels; I mean Steve Bannon has a plan to wrap it all in the flag and the Bible.

I almost fear the left’s response to the speech as much as the speech itself. The left has been taking lessons from the Tea Party on how to respond online to our National debate. 16 point print on memes at the horror of Kellyanne Conway kneeling on an Oval Office sofa taking a photo has almost eclipsed the President quoting Stalin about the press. I saw a meme just yesterday of toilet paper bearing President Trump’s image.

The movement of peace and love sure is spewing hate at about the same volume as the Tea Party did six years ago. I haven’t seen a photo of Trump with a bone in his nose as of yet, but I do have a photo of a Trump Troll doll with little hands and a little something else. I am sure these compelling images by the left will win over the swing voters. By the way, that is sarcasm on my part.

The left needs to step up its game. During the campaign, and during the Obama Administration, the left said they were better than those who spew hate. Crazy YouTube videos are coming out saying the President needs to face a Grand Jury over Russia. I guess the US Constitution, Separation of Powers, and Executive Privilege are all foreign concepts to those who produce and post this nonsense?

Up the game, and please cease sounding like the tea party. Acting as nuts as Trump and his supporters is not going to win the day.

I’ll watch the speech tonight and pray it is brief. I’ll then sign on to social media and avoid my foreign friends who will be asking me what just happened?

Maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised and he will use the speech to finally become Presidential and lay out a sane course for his Presidency. Maybe I’ll win the Powerball Lottery. History would say the odds of winning Powerball are better than the odds of President Trump not embarrassing himself and the Nation tonight.

UPDATE: I wrote my impressions of the speech which you can read by clicking here.

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