Susan Page

It's great to be with you, Dana.

Dana, what an interesting speech this was.

I mean, put aside the fact it's the longest State of the Union in recorded history.

You know, he broke his own record from last year's speech to a joint session of Congress.

But he also did something he almost never does.

He stuck to his script.

There were a few asides.

He made fun of Nancy Pelosi at one point, for instance.

But generally, he was reading from the teleprompter, something he almost never does.

And he did that with a very carefully crafted economic message.

And his message was, the economy is great.

I inherited a mess and I've turned it around.

And he cited some positive economic statistics to make his case.

Now, there wasn't a sort of I feel your pain kind of moment that would have maybe made Americans who feel uncertain about the economy feel better.

And he kind of dismissed the idea of affordability as a word that Democrats had concocted.

But he did make sort of his best case.

Now, will it be good enough?

You know, the history of presidents trying to convince Americans the economy is better than they think it is, that is not a promising one.

You can just ask Joe Biden.

But I did think it was a more disciplined speech than we've seen President Trump give before.