Joe Biden’s state-of-the-union address fails to impress
Ukraine aside, a gaffe-laden speech does nothing to turn Democrats’ problems around
EVERY WOULD-BE president daydreams of the moment: the very first state-of-the-union address to Congress, the chance to be at the centre of the annual American pageant. After 50 years in Washington, and having attended a fair few of the spectacles himself, President Joe Biden will have fantasised about his turn at speechmaking more than most. The reality, however, was hardly triumphant.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “State of the presidency”
United States March 5th 2022
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