Joy Reed skewers Trump's SOTU speech -- and Don Jr.'s defense of his dad.

HuffPost's Doug Moye supplies us with this twitter exchange between MSNBC news commentator Joy Reed and Donald Trump, Jr.    First, Joy's comment on the president's State of the Union speech:

JOY:   "Church . . . family . . . police . . . military . . . the national anthem . . .  Trump trying to call on all the tropes of 1950s-era nationalism.  The goal of this speech appears to be to force the normalization of Trump on the terms of the bygone era his supporters are nostalgic for."

DON, JR:  "Apparently Church, Family, Police, Military, and The National Anthem are things the left hates.  I think we would all be a lot better off if we embraced those values that allowed us to become the greatest nation in the world."

JOY:  "The fun part is, Trump doesn't actually embody any of the values he's hearkening back to.  Faith?   He panders to the religious far right but claims he's never even asked God for forgiveness.  Family?  He has flouted his marriage vows with porn stars and is accused by multiple women of sexual harassment and worse.   Law enforcement?   Sure, he is leading the culture war against NFL players who kneel to oppose police killing black civilians, but he and House Republicans are also waging war on federal law enforcement.  And as for the military, Trump's seeming eagerness to flirt with war with North Korea can't be heartening.   

"Trump is putting on a show;  allowing his base to reminisce about an Ozzie and Harriet past they don't even really value anymore based on their support for his 'values.'  He offers a promise to bring back the past, but no vision for the future.   And strangely, his version of 'family values' excludes the families of immigrants.

"Bottom line:  the first half of Trump's SOTU speech was pure pablum;  GOP family values boilerplate that the party traded in for demographic rage and reality show vulgarity by backing him.  The second half was the dark matter Trumpism actually represents.   Anti-immigrant, backward-looking, anti-innovation, and anti-progress.  And of course his base loved every minute of it."

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That's the Joy Reed--Don Trump, Jr. exchange about the speech.   Here's what the Guardian online news had to say:

"For over an hour, Trump read off a script and recited mostly rote, unmemorable lines. . . .  He sounded far more like a typical politician than he has in the past but, in doing so, made himself as forgettable as a typical politician."