According to Financial Times columnist Ed Luce, there was one moment during Donald Trump’s long and lie-filled State of the Union address that will cause his White House no small measure of problems as the president’s poll numbers are in freefall.
Appearing on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,“ the longtime journalist agreed with co-host Jonathan Lemire that Trump’s speech was “boring” but added that Trump’s comments about affordability was not what his inner circle wanted to hear coming out of his mouth.
“I don't think, you know, this is effective campaigning, although it is campaigning, was him rolling the word affordability around in his mouth, as if it's some very strange word that the Democrats have just learned, and that it isn't really a serious issue at all," he suggested to Lemire.
“I imagine Susie Wiles and others were gnashing their teeth as they watched that, because this was clearly supposed to be, at least in part, a speech that set up Republicans for the midterms as serious on questions of affordability,” he added. “And he didn't really do that. He told Americans that their prices are all falling. Don't believe your own lying eyes, etc. He at one point said that drug prices have dropped 100 percent, which would mean they're now zero.”
“So you know, I can't I can't get excited about this speech. But I'm and I guess the fact that we're so used to these torrents of lies and the whoppingness of these lies and that it's actually boring, does say something about us and about this president,” he wryly admitted.