Donald Trump will deliver his first official State of the Union of his second term in the US Capitol in Washington on Tuesday night at 9pm ET, with the White House signalling he will use the speech to sell an economic agenda and unveil a pledge aimed at stopping data centres from pushing up local electricity bills.
The timing is awkward in a way Trump cannot tweet away. Polling has been sliding, affordability has become Democrats' sharpest weapon, and the president is walking into the House chamber days after the Supreme Court knocked out tariffs that had sat under much of his economic message.
