By MICHAEL BASTASCH
While President Donald Trump touted policies to make the U.S. into an energy superpower, his first State of the Union (SOTU) address to Congress left out a hallmark of Obama-era speeches.
Trump’s address is the first in eight years to not refer to manmade global warming — nine years if you include former President Barack Obama’s 2009 address to Congress. Instead, Trump emphasized deregulation and boosting energy production — many of the regulations Trump rescinded were Obama-era global warming policies.
“In our drive to make Washington accountable, we have eliminated more regulations in our first year than any administration in history,” Trump said in his speech Tuesday night.
“We have ended the war on American Energy – and we have ended the War on clean coal,” Trump said. “We are now an exporter of energy to the world.”
Nearly all of Obama’s addresses to Congress explicitly mentioned climate change. Obama addressed Congress eight times, explicitly mentioning climate change in all but one speech.
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It was masterful political theater. To counter the white supremacist tag Trump had a variety of people of color to honor and applaud. The Dem’s played their role perfectly. I’ve never witnessed a more hideous group of sour faced losers in my life. They reminded me of spoiled 2 year old’s pouting because they didn’t get their way. They couldn’t even get on their feet when Trump called on congress to come together to ensure that the poorest Americans had the opportunity to become prosperous.
I had hoped he would announce some results of his Dec 21st executive order. He declared a national emergency that corruption and human trafficking posed a threat to national security. The criminals named in the order have ties to some powerful people including the Clinton’s. There has been a complete media blackout on this. The broad wording allows the government to go after corruption much like what happened in Saudi Arabia. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-blocking-property-persons-involved-serious-human-rights-abuse-corruption/