Like those commenters, I will not be watching the speech and I will avoid reading too much about it afterwards. As I know by now, if one filter's the president's public noise out by 95%, one will still learn everything one needs to know about the chief executive's current status.

While driving today, and changing the radio station whenever I heard "President Tr...", I began wondering if the press will ever get to the point where it can simply report all news from the president as "the White House said today ... that the president did ... " etc. without ever mentioning his name, broadcasting his voice, copying his tweets, or showing his image on a screen. It would still be full time professional news coverage - of the news, foreign affairs, new laws, policy announcements, etc. - but it would cut the president himself out of the news as much as possible. One, it would drive him nuts with no recourse; and two, it would lower the national temperature back to almost sanity level.

The rules of the SOTU drinking game are simple.

1. Everytime he makes an the OK with his hands, take a drink.

2. Anytime he says I, take a drink.

3. Whenever he repeats himself... Take a drink.

4. Whenever he makes a true statement finish the whole drink...

5. Anytime he uses the word fake... you guessed it finish the whole drink.

If I don't pass out I at the least expect to have to take two Advil and a quart of water before bed.

I also expect, like Paula and Kick, that there will be a lot of self congratulating - especially on the economy, jobs, and the stock market - with his Tax Bill featuring prominently as the reason.

On DACA, I'm sure that we will hear how much he wants to help the kids, but how he needs the Democrats to step up to the plate.

I expect the whole charade to be nauseating.

I wonder if anybody will shout "You Lie - times 2,000!"

^^^ Exactly this. ^^^

And remember these important tips for watching the State of the "Uniom" (SOTU) address:

** When Trump makes the "O's" with his thumb and forefinger, he's reading from the telepromter.

** When Trump speaks using the multiple identical words, he's improvising, e.g., "very, very" or "very, very, very."

** When Trump's lips are moving, he's either:
(1) lying or
(2) taking credit for something that either
(a) existed before he took office or
(b) Trump hasn't managed to screw up yet or
(c) both.

As long as Trump is president, I think there is ample evidence to change the name of the SOTU to the STFU, and whoever keeps misspelling stuff could easily make that happen. :)

Just today we learn he isn't going to enforce Russian sanctions voted into law -- and signed by him. GOP toadies are doing an "investigation" of the FBI and DOJ in an effort to delegitimize Mueller's work. McCabe is leaving and Blotus is going after Rosenstein. And on and on.

The usual suspects will spend a few days (unless something else blows up) claiming Blotus reading his SOTU address from a teleprompter without slobbering is the pivot we've been waiting for -- UNLESS its full of Acting-President Kelly/Resident Nazi Miller's white nationalism. But if he takes a stab at sounding "presidential" he'll get some undeserved good press during the interval that passes before he does/says something stupid/treasonous/dangerous.

The sad thing re: Blotus is that even when he has a stab of decent feeling about something he never follows through. AND he's generated so much bad will out there people -- other than his base -- will be disinclined to give him credit. And since his occasional positive impulses are dwarfed by his negative impulses there's very, very little to give him credit for.

I doubtful he'll last the night before tweeting something unpresidential. He'll be desperately watching news coverage - FOX will canonize him but other outlets will have mixed reactions and he'll be shocked, SHOCKED, that his "bipartisan" speech wasn't seen as the GREATEST SPEECH EVER WRITTEN BY SOMEONE ELSE AND READ FROM A TELEPROMPTER and he'll be off!