Viraldice: The Most Egregious Lies From Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address

onald Trump did his State of the Union address this Tuesday. It was, by all accounts, a very long and drawn-out affair filled with pomp, circumstance, and a whole lot of other unnecessary details. Democrats wore black in honor of the #MeToo Movement and scowled a lot. Republicans wore whatever the heck they wanted and smiled a lot.

In fact, Mitch McConnell smiled so hard, Daily Show host Trevor Noah quipped, "he looks like he just poisoned someone's drink, and they're about to sip it."

There was also all the clapping – and the lack of of it. Twitter latched on to the fact that Trump seemed to clap self importantly at every seemingly big point he made, and many of the Twitterati snidely wondered whether he wasn’t congratulating himself much too soon.

There were also, of course, all the people that didn’t clap, like the members of the Congressional Black Caucus, when Trump disingenuously claimed credit for the lowest rates of black unemployment in recent years.

And then, of course, there were all the subsequent think-pieces, blogs, and op-eds heralding the speech as a miracle of bipartisanship, and a new direction in the career of a very controversial president.

After all, Trump initially seemed to lean into the idea of bipartisanship. “Tonight, I call upon all of us to set aside our differences, to seek out common ground, and to summon the unity we need to deliver for the people… we were elected to serve,” he said.

However, Noah was quick to rebut this as a massive act of dissembling “Working together sounds beautiful,” Noah said, “but the truth is, almost every single time democrats and republicans have managed to agree on an idea, Trump has come back from the golf course just in time to screw it up… He did on immigration, Obamacare…”