Trump Cowers To Pelosi After She CANCELS His State Of The Union Address

The State of the Union drama is heating up between Trump and Nancy Pelosi, and Pelosi appears to have the upper hand in this fight. Trump swore he’d deliver the address, but with Pelosi revoking his invitation to do so, he won’t be able to deliver it before Congress, and he has since conceded in this fight. There is precedent for postponing a SOTU address, and Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains why Pelosi is doing the right thing here.

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On Wednesday, Donald Trump excepted Nancy Pelosi's invitation to deliver his State of the Union address and a Nancy Pelosi then had to issue a statement saying, well, hold up, man, did you not see my previous letter saying we need to postpone this thing because the government shut down. Donald trump then said, yeah, I saw it, but whatever you invited me, I'm accepting it. So then Nancy Pelosi was forced to officially resend Donald Trump's invitation to deliver his State of the Union address in front of Congress and in front of the American public. Donald trump will not be giving his State of the Union address, at least not this month, probably, maybe not even this year, because he cannot deliver an official state of the Union address without a formal invitation from the speaker of the house, which is Democrat, Nancy Pelosi. And as long as Nancy Pelosi withholds that invitation, there is nothing that Donald Trump can do.

Now, at first, after she rescinded the invitation and said, well, then this isn't going to happen. Donald trump and the White House, uh, was rumor that they were looking for other venues. Maybe they're going to go do it in the Senate as Rand Paul, I believe it was, uh, had suggested maybe they'll do it from the Oval Office. Maybe he'll do it out in the Midwest, right? Wouldn't that be a real thing? Uh, but then none of that happened. Trump said, we're not looking at other venues. Nancy's rescinded my invitation so I will not be delivering the State of the Union. The master negotiator, the dealmaker, the art of the deal, bowed down to Nancy Pelosi and said, thank you ms Dot Pelosi. You win this round. There is nothing I can do. How does that feel? Republicans honestly tell me. I wanna know. I wanna know how it feels to think that Donald Trump is the greatest deal maker in the history of deals.

Only to have him realize that he is not all powerful. He is not omnipotent, and he is not above the law. In this particular instance, he has to obey the rules. He has to do with Nancy Pelosi said he killed or could not do. And he didn't even bother trying to find another way out of it. And you know why? Because Donald trump doesn't care about the state of the Union address. He sure he likes to be on TV. He likes to hear people clapping, but he can go and do that anywhere and he knows that so he is not going to continue fighting this fight. One because he knows he can't win. And two, because it's not something he actually wanted to do. Now, this is not necessarily without precedent. Sure. They've never. The House of Representatives have never in the history of this country, we're sending an invitation to deliver state of the Union.