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The grand theater of the State of the Union address is traditionally a masterclass in American artifice. It is a night where every tie is knotted with precision, every applause break is timed to the millisecond, and every family member seated in the gallery serves as a living breathing prop in a narrative of national stability. During Donald Trump’s address, the air in the Capitol was thick with the rhetoric of “tremendous renewal,” a sweeping oration that touched upon the divine, the patriotic, and the indomitable spirit of the American worker. Below the podium, the First Family sat as a…
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