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Trump's excess and extravagance turned the State of the Union into an action movie

  • Written by Vanessa B. Beasley, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Vanderbilt University
President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address at the Capitol on Feb. 4, 2020. OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images

State of the Union addresses are supposed to be boring speeches.

Actually, they are not required to be speeches at all. The U.S. Constitution requires only that the president “from time to time give to the...

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