Trump’s 2026 State of Union address shows US politics ‘as divided as ever’

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President Donald Trump made “very little effort to reach across the aisle to Democrats” in his 2026 State of the Union speech, the longest in US history. He zeroed in on his “red meat issue, which is immigration,” sparking heckles at times from some Democrats, David Smith, The Guardian’s Washington DC bureau chief, tells FRANCE 24 shortly after the address.