Full of hubris and bravado, Tuesday’s state of the union address was classic Donald Trump – the showman who knows how to work a crowd.

In the US Senate chamber there was plenty of love, but on the streets of America the President’s popularity has been falling.

Today, US journalist Steve Clemons, editor at large of The National Interest – on the speech and the spectacle – how did Trump’s state of the union go down, and what does it all mean for the midterms?

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