Trump has been disinvited from giving the SOTU due to shutdown

[Gass3268]

https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1085557201706668032

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

[Sir Mohamed]

https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1085549944969285634

[Santander]

My Queen is alive!

[ηєω ƒяσηтιєя]

Great decision!

[Karpatsky]

Finally someone is learning to target the only thing Trump cares about: attention.

[Torrain]

This is actually a decent strategy.

A perceived slight to Trump's presidential authority, and/or ego, might be the jolt needed to bring him to the table.

Man, it's great to have Pelosi back in the chair

[ajc0918]

Pelosi knows how to hit him where it hurts.

[ProudModerate2]

Finally someone is learning to target the only thing Trump cares about: attention.

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Good

[Ban my account ffs!]

This is why I think Nancy Pelosi is the right fit for the job right now.  She is good at knowing where to aim and when to push the button.

She has a legitimate reason to at least postpone the address.  It deprives Trump of his best yearly opportunity to spew his lies.  It also means that if Trump gives a live address from elsewhere, the playing field will be much more equal with the Democratic response.

[Landslide Lyndon]

https://twitter.com/RepJeffries/status/1085586912134553600

[Dr. Arch]

Absolutely beautifully done

[Xing]

No dessert for a week for Baby Donny, since he's been a bad little boy. We've got responsible parents/guardians in Congress again, great news!

[NewYorkExpress]

He shouldn't be allowed to deliver his State of the Union, even if the government reopens (which it won't, since Trump isn't interested in negotiating).

[Interlocutor is just not there yet]

Great

[Zaybay]

Im impressed. Pelosi hit Trump where it hurts, and hit hard. I could actually see Trump folding because of this.

[Alabama_Indy10]

What’s keeping him from just giving the address from the Oval Office?

[Storr]

Man, I'm really liking Speaker Nancy 2.0. Of course we need to remember, it's always easier to rule Congress when you're not the Party in control of the White House. At lease Nancy has experience with that, Paul Ryan learned the hard way and quit.

[Dereich]

What’s keeping him from just giving the address from the Oval Office?

He wouldn't really be fulfilling the Constitutional requirement to "from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union" if he was speaking from the Oval Office. I'm not sure how he'd argue in that case that he was "giving the information to Congress." And while admittedly he probably doesn't care about the Constitutional requirement, if he did go through with a regular Oval Office speech I highly doubt the networks would give it the same kind of elaborate ceremony (and as much airtime) as he'd get with a real SOTU address.

[Gass3268]

What’s keeping him from just giving the address from the Oval Office?

He wouldn't really be fulfilling the Constitutional requirement to "from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union" if he was speaking from the Oval Office. I'm not sure how he'd argue in that case that he was "giving the information to Congress." And while admittedly he probably doesn't care about the Constitutional requirement, if he did go through with a regular Oval Office speech I highly doubt the networks would give it the same kind of elaborate ceremony (and as much airtime) as he'd get with a real SOTU address.

They might not even provide time given its so close to last week's Oval Office speech.

[Peanut]

This is why I think Nancy Pelosi is the right fit for the job right now.  She is good at knowing where to aim and when to push the button.

She has a legitimate reason to at least postpone the address.  It deprives Trump of his best yearly opportunity to spew his lies.  It also means that if Trump gives a live address from elsewhere, the playing field will be much more equal with the Democratic response.

[MichaelRbn]

From Jefferson to Taft no president set foot in the House chamber.  A letter to Congress fulfills any Constitutional requirement on reporting on the state of the union.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Can Pelosi and Hoyer even do that?

[GeorgiaModerate]

From Jefferson to Taft no president set foot in the House chamber.  A letter to Congress fulfills any Constitutional requirement on reporting on the state of the union.

Agree.  There is no requirement that the information must be delivered in person.