Staggeringly

President Trump gave his State of the Union speech last night.  I didn't watch all of it, but the parts I saw, I liked.  The Daily Mail reports on the public perception of the speech.

Within minutes of President Donald Trump's first State of the Union speech, CBS News revealed their YouGov poll approval ratings on it.
Unsurprisingly, 97% of Republican speech watchers liked it.
More surprisingly, 72% of Independents liked it.
Staggeringly, 43% of Democrats liked it.

From what I did see, when the cameras panned over to Nancy Pelosi, her face was drawn tighter than a possum who had been eating green persimmons.  Pore ol' Chuck Schumer looked like he was sitting on his hands.  He didn't want to hear something American, inadvertently applaud, and suffer the approbation of Nancy's laser-like gaze.

But, the initial stats are instructive.  Nearly everybody liked it, except for the small percentage who don't like America.

Principled Realism

I'm told that President Trump gave a speech at the UN earlier today to outline his philosophy of "principled realism" in US foreign policy, but I doubt that the assembled diplomats were prepared for how real it would get.  Somehow, I don't think that they've ever heard a speech quite like that.

He laid into Iran pretty good:

Pres. Trump: "It is time for the entire world to join us in demanding that Iran's gov't end its pursuit of death and destruction."

But, he saved the best line for North Korea's fat little dictator

Trump on Kim Jong Un: "Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime"

Rocket Man!  Heh.  I like that.

Update**

“The problem in Venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented. It is that socialism has been faithfully implemented."

That has to be the best line in the whole speech.  I see that the Dems are going crazy about our plain-spoken President, but for myself, I think he did great.