Susan Glasser

So they let a war go on for two full days without the leadership of the Pentagon speaking to the American people.

Again, I've watched decades of national security leaders in both parties in Washington.

This is not how it was supposed to work in America.

What is there to say?

It was it was long and it was wrong.

That's my headline.

No, I mean, you know, right.

It's an hour and however many minutes of our life we won't get back.

It was.

It was.

It just there were a lot of exclamation points.

There were six different medal ceremonies in the course of the event.

And that does not include, of course, the tribute to the gold medal winning American men's hockey team.

I think Donald Trump thought maybe he was hosting the Grammys or something, you know.

giving awards to people because it does seem like what he wants to do taking awards for himself receiving awards and giving awards maybe he would not have run against if we had just given him his true job this is amazing tim this is your bob hope theory of the case you know that basically he's sort of like you know if bob hope were a wannabe dictator but you know i think that's right i mean i i wrote my piece i had to stay a blade for the new yorker i wrote my piece and

But I realized in having this conversation that I was still pretending this was an actual State of the Union.

And, you know, oh, by that standard, right, there's no news.

You know, what did we learn?

Remember all the big buildup?

There were two things that we thought about the speech going into it.