Mara Liason

That's likely to be the Democrats' message going into the midterms.

Well, the timing is pretty auspicious.

The State of the Unions are any president's biggest opportunities to speak to the public.

And the big question for me is how much time Trump will spend in his State of the Union address excoriating the Supreme Court justices.

Who will be sitting right in front of him?

Will he repeat his insults, call them lapdogs and fools?

Or how much time he will be talking about affordability?

That's something he has struggled to do consistently for months.

NPR senior national political correspondent Mara Eliason.

You're welcome.

In the past, Trump has shown that he prefers military actions that you could call one and done.

A quick bombing raid on Iran's nuclear facilities or a quick raid into Venezuela to nab Nicolas Maduro.

We don't know if he has the stomach for a long protracted fight.

And if he wants to change the regime in Iran, that's what it would entail.

They thought that they would no longer have to defend these unpopular tariffs and maybe prices would go down.

But that optimism lasted about five minutes because Trump immediately said that not only was he going to put more tariffs on under a different authority, but that authority calls for congressional approval.

So now Republicans in Congress are going to have to show their loyalty to Donald Trump by voting to impose tariffs, taking personal responsibility for this.

This is something they don't want to do.

They thought that they would no longer have to defend these unpopular tariffs and maybe prices would go down.

But that optimism lasted about five minutes because Trump immediately said that not only was he going to put more tariffs on under a different authority, but that authority calls for congressional approval.