Meridith McGraw
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But he
his call for that was pretty quickly ignored.
And there were some testy exchanges between progressive Democrats Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.
And they heckled Trump several times, especially when Trump was talking about his immigration policies and when he pointed to allegations of fraud.
in Minnesota.
At one point, Omar yelled out liar and Trump called them crazy.
Well, the person delivering the Democrats' official response was Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger.
And she's a moderate.
She won last year's Virginia election really focusing on affordability and a cost-focused message.
And she really went hard on Trump for failing, she said, to address affordability.
We all know the answer.
And I think it's sort of a preview of the kind of messaging that we're going to see from Democrats towards Trump and Republicans going into the midterms.
Well, you know, President Trump really is a showman, and there were surprise guests and awards that were given out throughout the speech.
He had also some pretty heartwarming moments.
There was the men's U.S.
hockey team who just won the gold medal, who flew in for the State of the Union, and at one point the chamber was chanting USA.
USA!
The president gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the hockey goalie.
There was some bipartisan applause for a line he had about stopping insider trading by members of Congress.
But I thought a really nice moment was when he gave the Medal of Honor to the helicopter pilot who was wounded during Maduro's capture, but also a 100-year-old kid