America's new president gave an address to a joint session of Congress. The Los Angeles Times posted a full transcript of the speech (along with remarks from its staff that may require Javascript to view); Bloomberg uploaded a video of the event.
The New York Times called it "the most presidential speech Mr. Trump has ever given — delivered at precisely the moment he needed to project sobriety, seriousness of purpose and self-discipline."
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 01 2017, @09:43PM
just because you critique his kindergarten-quality speeches doesn't mean you aren't also talking about his other problems
this thread is about the speech, hence people are talking about the speech
elsewhere I've talked about his long history of money-laundering for russian mafia and oligarchs, for example:
https://www.ft.com/content/33285dfa-9231-11e6-8df8-d3778b55a923 [ft.com]
https://www.ft.com/content/ea52a678-9cfb-11e6-8324-be63473ce146 [ft.com]
https://www.ft.com/content/549ddfaa-5fa5-11e6-b38c-7b39cbb1138a [ft.com]
http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/12/19/the-curious-world-of-donald-trumps-private-russian-connections/ [the-american-interest.com]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-mafia-linked-figure-describes-association-with-trump/2016/05/17/cec6c2c6-16d3-11e6-aa55-670cabef46e0_story.html [washingtonpost.com]