President Trump's second State of the Union address earned him plenty of approval, but not from former Republican senator Rick Santorum.
Santorum, who endorsed Trump in 2016, described the State of the Union as "probably the worst delivered speech I've heard Donald Trump give," per Talking Points Memo. For one, the former senator thought Trump's delivery was all off, saying he "ran over his lines" and in some cases "he would deliver a line and go to the next issue, and I don't think he even realized he was moving on to the next issue."
But that wasn't his only complaint. Santorum also slammed Trump for a relative lack of new policy proposals. "Stacey Abrams in four minutes proposed 40 things," Santorum said. "In an hour and a half, Donald Trump proposed eight domestic policies ... so this was not a big speech."
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Watch Santorum's comments below. Brendan Morrow
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