President Donald Trump's first official State of the Union of his second term was delivered to a noticeably thinned chamber—dozens of Democrats boycotted while those who showed up attempted what Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called "silent defiance." The speech landed in a precarious week: the Supreme Court just invalidated Trump's sweeping tariffs, polls show widespread public dissatisfaction with the economy, and the Iran nuclear clock is ticking in the background of every foreign policy sentence.

Inside, Trump played to type—praising allies lavishly, assigning others thankless tasks, relitigating the border—while Democrats struggled to find a response that didn't end up as the night's defining image.

U.S. Men's Hockey Team ⬆

The Olympic gold medalists who beat Canada in overtime drew the night's only spontaneous bipartisan applause in a chamber that can split on whether to........

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