Instead of a State of the Union Address, Donald Trump decided to have an awards ceremony

This was probably a good idea, given the actual state of the union, which borders on civil war. Just a few days before, one of Donald Trump's own supporters came to his home in Mar-a-Lago, with a shotgun and a can of gasoline, and was gunned down by secret service agents, in what was presumably an assassination attempt against him, because of his involvement with famed pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. His Department of Homeland Security has been officially shut down, its funding totally cut off indefinitely, because of extra-judicial murders commited by federal ICE agents in Minnesota. Ordinary Americans are being acquitted across the country for assaulting federal agents, because ordinary Americans on juries will not convict them for defending themselves. The economy is weak, and getting weaker. Republicans appear to be heading for an historic defeat in the midterm elections in November, so bad that Trump is talking about canceling them.