Trump intends on delivering the greatest State of the Union speech in history to bolster his approval ratings and to appease First Lady Melania by naming her the national bird.
This episode provides examples of:
- The Bore: Trump describes Karen Pence as "like talking to a human shower-curtain." Mike Pence takes that as a compliment.
- Epic Fail: Donald tells Don Jr. and Eric to go on Hannity, do basic show-talk and not talk about Russia. It should have been especially easy considering Hannity is willing to give the Trump Family whatever they want without a fight. Instead, they wind up bringing up Russia at every turn, incriminating themselves and break down in sobbing from their failure.
- Establishing Character Moment:
- General Kelly is introduced trying to steer a meeting that's mainly just Trump's sycophants fluffing his ego into a discussion about Trumps' State-of-the-Union Address, illustrating that he's the only one taking his job seriously.
- Steve Mnuchin's pitch for the state of the union address is that "poor people are gross" and that they should lace America's pennies with small-pox. Trump seems to think it's a viable idea.
- Ben Carson's idea for the State of the Union Address is that excess brain-tissue from dead patients should be recycled as wall-insulator and pillow stuffing.
- Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer manage to make Trump feel at ease with them with "New York Talk", then admit that all they want is for him to pretend like he agreed to compromise with them over bipartisan issues without actually doing so.
- Ted Cruz suddenly appears in Donald Trump's bedroom without he's brushing his teeth, shouting "Ted Cruz" at the drop of a hat, asking him why he's brushing his teeth, admits to breaking into his room just to pitch a State of the Union idea, then promises not to stab him in the back for the sake of attention. He even remarks that Trump agreeing not to openly judge him is the nicest thing anyone has ever said to him.
- Mitch McConnell admits to valuing political expediency over his conscience.
- Sean Hannity does a hot-take saying that someone deserved to drown on the basis of being a Democrat and bends over backwards, including lying hyperbolically, to make the Trump Family look good.
- Stephen Miller is introduced writing Trump's State of the Union speech, undergoing a ritual involving him hanging from the ceiling by his loose back skin (with weights tied to his nipples), evoking a demon for inspiration and relishing how hot the coffee he's drinking is.
- Jared Kushner tells Milania that they can all "chit-chat when [they're] all in prison."
- Invented Individual: Trump made-up a secretary — "Susan" — and tells people to call her when he doesn't want to talk to anyone.
- Military Coup: When Trump sarcastically goads his military advisors to take over the government when they won't let him have the Nuclear Football, most of them think he's actually inviting him to start a coup. Kelly dissuades them.
