Before the State of the Union, a Day of Anticipation and Preparation

From Super Bowl to State of The Union in less than 48 hours. Both boring, both filled with corn syrup. Wake up, America!

Watch the State of the Union speech? Like Jack Nicholson said so eloquently in the film "Terms of Endearment" - "I would rather stick needles in my eyes."

I will not be watching. What’s the point? Here’s the entire speech: BAD: Democrats, Pelosi & Schumer, Mueller, journalists, hombres. GOOD: Trump, the Wall, cozying up to autocrats, the NE Patriots, possibly BFF Lindsey Graham.

It could be worse than last year when the Democrats didn't clap for his "Highness." Hopefully, if he starts his "Wall" spiel, they will literally boo him!

Trump may not be wise or smart, but it was clever of him to schedule his presentation of Stephen Miller's speech at a time when his boss in Moscow will probably be sleeping. As always, provoking just about everyone except Putin is Trump’s top priority.

I live in a retirement community and I do no know a single sole that plans to watch his State of the Union spiel

A gross anomaly; #45 alongside those who have made America a special place --with much work to do. Go women! We need you!!.

it's a total wastage of time to spend more than an hour to listen loads of lies and bigotry from this habitual liar and alleged criminal. I'm not sure why major TV channels are wasting their revenue to push this meangless blabaring down through our throat by cancelling its scheduled programming.

I try hard to remind myself that not everything in this country that is trite, hackneyed, clichéd, platitudinous, vapid and ridden-with-lies is Trump's fault, but then a speech like the one we are about to hear comes along and convinces me otherwise.

Well my House of Representative John Lewis wont be attending the State of the Union, so stands to reason I wont be watching it. Though I wouldn't miss Stacey Abrams speech this evening.

Why do the curtains look like the back of a saggy bottom in a pair of old pants? A little levity, please

If Trump threatens a shutdown or the intent to override Congress to build his $5.7 Billion monument to himself, Democrats should stand up in unison and noisily walk out immediately.

I can't imagine anyone thinking that Trump is going to report on anything but Trump, his imaginary triumphs, his edqually imaginary persecution by the media and anyone who dares to do anything but bow and agree with him, his current set of lies about "bipartisanship" (which to him means both sides must give him everything he demands) and yet more fantasies about his stupid wall. He really is drearily predictable.

Boy, never has so much been made about a State of the Union address in recent memory. It's obviously a slow news day (but at least the press has moved on from it's wall-to-wall coverage of Gov. Ralph Northam, who's screw-up 30 years ago received a preposterous amount of media attention). I have no intention of wasting my time listening to another crazed rant from the person in the WH who only occasionally stumbles on the truth by accident. If Trump were a normal president, he would be spending his SOTU talking about the desperate need to address climate change. Instead, he'll be treating all of you with nothing better to do with your time to his usual lies and hogwash about armies of criminals and rapists invading through our southern border and his having single-handedly brought peace in our time to/with North Korea. Thank god the nation only has to endure one more SOTU from the lunatic-in-chief.

I love seeing the photos of the Capitol being readied for the state of the Union address. Too bad the person giving it is clueless as to how a president should behave and how a president should work for the people of the country. So, I will be reading the address, not watching the delivery, which will consist of how great he is, how wonderful he is, and, oh, we need that border wall to keep out those poor brown people that keep trying to come into the country. I would rather have a root canal than listen to and watch to him speak.

I will not watch the Liar-in-Chief tonight. I count on you, NYT, to keep me up to date with accurate fact-checking against his self-serving statements. I am, however, looking forward to Stacey Abrams.

Oh, please. We will not learn the state of the union from tonight’s address. We will hear the rantings of a delusional madman.

No one will learn anything about the State of the Union from Trump except that what we have in the White House, thanks to the GOP's election thievery, is a lying, incompetent egomaniac.

This article's subtitle reads: "After a cancellation and before another potential funding lapse, Congress is finally ready to hear what, exactly, the state of the union is." "Exactly"? According to whom?

Really? People want to hear the president’s “thoughts”? The guy who doesn’t like information (like intelligence briefs) to get in the way of his opinions. The guy whose opinions are the same as those of ignorant men from back in the 1950s? The man who refuses to exercise because he thinks that human life is like a battery with limited energy that runs out from any exertion? The guy who doesn’t understand the constitution? The guy whose fake university was found guilty of fraud? The guy who made a fake charity and kept the money for himself? The guy who had secret meetings with the Russians and defended the murder of a journalist? People actually want to hear what he thinks??

I dread Trump's State of the Union presidential babble almost as much as I dread the ice storm predicted in Chicago between 6 p.m. tonight through 6 a.m.tomorrow morning. No doubt I'll find myself slipping and sliding on thinner ice than the president.

Goin' out to an early dinner, Pacific time, to a restaurant with no TVs. This sorry reality show should have been cancelled by now.

I anticipate a circus. The Roman sort—breadcrumbs and chariot wheels in the mud. The coming “speech” was no doubt written by Stephen Miller, who’s about ten steps to the right of Ann Coulter. And speaking of the acid Right, one can’t expect anything like conciliatory offerings. After all, it was Nancy Pelosi who tamed the snarling president—to his lasting chagrin—and to Republicans’ barely-contained mortification. Just what victories he plans to herald will be hard to imagine. He will, in the end, return to his wall as its own justification. He’s an empty vessel.

State of the Union: Broken until the Trumpet is ousted....... Nothing more to say.......

Count me out, I'd rather listen to someone trying to sell me time shares on the Gowanus Canal.

The response of a child. Don’t you realize Republicans already controlled the Senate? You lost the House and badly.

I doubt if Trump will provide comity. Comedy yes. Comity no.

"Inside an empty House chamber, Representative Louie Gohmert, the brash-talking Texas Republican, camped out with his computer more than nine hours..." Is this the behavior of a Member of Congress or a mooning teenager at a pop concert?

The state if the union is an unmitigated disaster. Even republicans agree on that. But I'd love to see Pelosi dressed all in white, or less good but still dramatic, in fire red with a white ribbon like the a democratic men. Who wants to bet the thin-skinned president will try to block any view of Pelosi by changing his stance? That could create maybe the only humor, if Pelosi reacts in kind creating a windshield wiper effect. I may turn off the sound so I can watch the body language, which should be pretty much as expected.

That it is even necessary to do live fact checking during a state of the union address makes it even more urgent that this man is removed from office.

The state of the union? What word could most adequately describe it? In shambles? Disarray? Division? Worrisome? I could go on... But the best word to describe the union is the one our very stable genius uses so well... Sad!

Senator Shelby's comment seems ill-suited to the issue. He says that Mr. Trump will "talk to us". In my experience of the last several years, that would be a first. Trump doesn't talk to so much as rants at, no thought or discussion involved. I generally looked forward to SoU speeches, if for nothing more than maybe seeing a larger picture of American hopes, dreams, possibilities ... The best I can expect now is a diminishing vision of what actually made us "great".

To Trump, unity means "everyone do what I tell them". He never learned how to compromise because, well, he never had to. When he was a child, daddy gave him everything. As an adult, he knew how to use his financial and legal leverage to get what he wanted, and when that didn't work he filed for bankruptcy or got divorced. To Trump, life is a zero sum game, 2 sides cannot both win.