The president’s annual State of the Union address is one of the most anticipated nights of the year for political junkies and the public alike. Ostensibly, it’s the lbmmander-in-Chief’s address to both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court and it’s almost always a pep rally for America. “The union is strong,” the president almost always says, in one way or another, “but together we can make it stronger.”
It’s going to be a bit more than the usual boring speech interrupted by standing and clapping because Donald Trump is the president, and he’s more used to the theater of politics than politics itself. He’ll deliver a lot of bombast, get lots of credit for reciting his prepared remarks well, but lots more people will wonder if Melania Trump will show up in the wake of the Stormy Daniels “incident,” or if Democrats and anti-trump Republicans in the building will applaud or sit with folded arms and grumpy faces. Anything is possible in the Trump presidency as it forever flies by the seat of its pants.
Even possible, it would seem, are typos on State of the Union tickets. Members of the public invited to attend are given tickets, and this year’s are made to look all old-timey, early America-like. And somehow, despite there only being like a dozen words on the ticket, nobody bothered to give the tickets a final glance before printing, because as it stands, attendees have a ticket to the “State of the Uniom.” With an “m.”