President Donald Trump, unlike his predecessor in office Joe Biden, talks with reporters quite frequently. In those press conferences and other interactions, Trump makes some misstatements of fact. To an extent it makes sense to cut him some slack regarding misstatements in extemporaneous and impromptu communication. But, Trump making clear misstatements of fact in his annual State of the Union speech is another matter. That is just what we saw when Trump presented the annual speech Tuesday evening.

State of the Union speeches presented by presidents each year before the full Congress, Cabinet members, Supreme Court justices, and other assorted United Stares government related muckymucks, are researched, written, fact checked, and rewritten meticulously by a team. They are, along with presidents’ inaugural and farewell addresses, among the most carefully prepared speeches presidents deliver. State of the Union speeches are about as far from “on the fly” as presidential speeches get. If mistakes of........

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