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Aaron Blake: Seven takeaways from Donald Trump’s State of the Nation address

Texas Democrat Al Greene interrupts Donald Trump's speech in Congress. Photo: AP

Texas Democrat Al Greene interrupts Donald Trump's speech in Congress. Photo: AP

Aaron Blake

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On Tuesday, US president Donald Trump delivered the first big speech to Congress of his second term this week, amid a series of major subplots.

Those included his administration’s continued and legally dubious massive overhaul of the federal government, tense negotiations over the war in Ukraine that resulted in an extraordinary Oval Office blow-up Friday, and new tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico on Tuesday that have sent shock waves through the economy.

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