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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Joseph Gedeon in Washington

‘Nobel prize for fiction’: Trump’s State of the Union provokes polarized reactions

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Democratic senators react to Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

Congressional Democrats lined up on Tuesday night to call Donald Trump a liar and Republicans said America had never been greater. The country’s longest-ever State of the Union address had ended, and the two parties had, again, watched entirely different speeches.

Trump’s address ran for nearly two hours, with the president touching on tariffs, border security, military recruitment and energy production, among other topics. He told the country the economy was booming, inflation was under control and a golden age was at hand, but Democrats were not persuaded.

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