Joel Pollak

by bringing people into the room from outside.

They weren't seated in the gallery.

Almost all of his guests were people who were waiting outside in the hallway, and he would bring them in.

The Olympic team, the Medal of Honor winner.

There were people coming in all the time.

He brought the nation into the room, and I think that was a deliberate physical gesture.

And I've written about that before, how there's never been a president

who has used the room itself almost as a musical instrument.

You know, if you go into a church with a pipe organ, the building is the instrument because you can actually see the pipes usually on the exterior of the building, sometimes inside as well.

But the resonance that gives the organ sound is the building.

And Trump is the organist in the chamber.

He really uses the physical space, not just by projecting his voice.

But by bringing people in and out.

And then last night, a new technique he really drew attention to, which was standing versus sitting.

We're used to that, right?

We're used to the party in power standing and applauding the party that's in the opposition sitting and frowning.

But Democrats came in and said, we're going to be silent.

We're just not going to say anything or do anything.

And they've done that in a few years past.

But I think Trump took that as an opportunity this time and said, OK, you're going to sit there.