President Trump gave his second State of the Union speech Tuesday night, and Jimmy Fallon's Trump gave a post-speech interview on The Tonight Show. "You all just witnessed the Super Bowl of State of the Union speeches," he said. It had action, it had excitement, it had drama — the only thing it was missing was Adam Levine's nipples."
Trevor Noah recapped Trump's actual speech on a live Daily Show, starting with some optics. "Yes, his tie was crooked when he walked in — Trump walked past 600 people, and not a single one of them had the balls to tell him," he said. "I guess we should be grateful his fly wasn't open." Inviting Joshua Trump, a kid bullied over his last name, to the speech "is a pretty savvy move by Trump," Noah added. "It combines two major goals of his family: Melania's campaign to stop bullying, and Donald's campaign to replace Eric."
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"By Trump's standards," the speech itself "was pretty chilled," Noah said. Trump bragged about the economy, threatened Democrats not to investigate him, and warned "that we're all going to die, Mexican-style," Noah paraphrased. Trump did eventually bring the "whole room together," he laughed. "Yo, Donald Trump is a rock star, guys. He just took credit for the Democrats electing more women." And he tried to end on a presidential-sounding note: "That's right, folks, 'we have not yet begun to dream.' In other words, the nightmare is just beginning." Watch below. Peter Weber
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