Was this going to be an evening for routine presidential puffery, or for offering to cut tariff "rebate checks" to all Americans? Or, perhaps, for announcing an attack on Venezuela? Rumors about both of the latter had been swirling. Thankfully, they were wrong.
Still, it's a testament to nothing good that folks couldn't be quite sure going in. After all, just two days ago, President Donald Trump declared fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction and callously mocked two murder victims. He's taken to ordering the bombing of boats of alleged "narcoterrorists" in the Caribbean, due process be damned, and said last week that U.S. action in Venezuela could be coming "very soon."
