A veteran Democratic lawmaker says President Trump’s first State of the Union address “seems on its surface reasonable” but that Americans should wait until “his Adderall wears off” Wednesday morning
“It didn’t deliver on substance. It wasn’t inflammatory, for the most part. But we’ll see what he tweets at 5 o’clock in the morning when his Adderall wears off,” Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) said in an interview with The Hill.
Fellow Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan (Ohio) called Trump “low-energy,” described his speech as “uninspiring” and said he is waiting for sunrise, when Ryan anticipates the president will take to Twitter, “thumbs moving.”
Freshman GOP Rep. Scott Taylor (Va.) chuckled when asked what to expect from the president on Twitter Wednesday morning. “He surprises people sometimes,” Taylor said. “But I think tonight was a good night for him and for the country.”
“For Republicans, he hit it out of the park,” Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) said in an interview with The Hill — a sentiment echoed by several of his colleagues.
Other Republicans showed no love for stone-faced Democratic lawmakers who attended the Tuesday night speech.
“The Democrats, they showed their hatred for the president by everything he said, they would not agree with,” said Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas).
“I don’t even know why they were even there,” Poe added.
DeFazio also called out Trump for using “20 props,” referring to the president’s guests sitting in the visitors’ gallery, whose stories were featured in the nearly 90-minute address.
“It offends me that you call an American soldier who risked his life to save another one a ‘prop,’ ” Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) fired back in an interview with The Hill.
Watch the video above to hear the lawmakers in their own words.