Donald Trump’s State of the Union was a State of Unreality

In the hallowed, freshly beige chamber of the United States House of Representatives, President Donald J. Trump delivered what will surely be remembered less as the State of the Union than as the State of Implausible Claims: a rhetorical masterclass in navigating between hyperbole and pure fabrication.

Yesterday’s speech, the longest in history and lasting almost two hours, was full of bravado, self-congratulation and lies. The president began with a bombastic speech, declaring that core inflation had fallen to “the lowest level in more than five years”; It was a statement that raised eyebrows among the country’s real economists. prices did not miraculously fall to utopian levels.