State of the Union

Finally,President Trump (or someone around him)has shown some smarts. The decision to postpone the State of the Union speech is a savvy maneuver. Of course, Mr. Trump intends to use the speech to ballyhoo the tremendous job he is doing and to extol how great everything is in the country. He can hardly say such things while there is so much suffering caused by his shutdown of the government without further exposing himself as cruel, out of touch and tone deaf. By postponing the speech he avoids having to give a defensive, low key address and, while appearing conciliatory and rational, he preserves for later the opportunity for his grand and delusional self- promotion.