What Twitter Is Saying About the State of the Union

Check out the instant spin room.

Barack Obama SOTU last year. — President Barack Obama delivers the State of the Union address on Jan. 20, 2015, in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

President Barack Obama delivers his final State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday. While the legislative stakes might be low, the political stakes are much higher. Obama’s address comes with the first voting of the 2016 election—one that will ultimately make or break his political legacy and the policy direction of the country—just a few weeks away.

In what is already a heightened political season, the speech will offer pundits and politicos from both sides of the aisle one more way in which to frame the upcoming nominating- and general-election fights. Below are live tweets, drawn from a list of top political accounts curated by Slate. Those who lean left are on the left; those who lean right are on the right. Enjoy the instant spin!

Tweets from @Slate/left-leaning-tweets

Tweets from @Slate/right-leaning-tweets

Jan. 31 2018 12:12 PM | Ben Mathis-Lilley Trump’s List of Jobs American Heroes Do Extended All the Way From Fighting Fires to Being a Marine

Jan. 31 2018 8:50 AM | Osita Nwanevu Who Was Joe Kennedy’s State of the Union Response For?

Jan. 31 2018 1:20 AM | Henry Grabar Here’s What Trump’s Mythical Infrastructure Plan Might Look Like

Jan. 31 2018 1:05 AM | Molly Olmstead Did President Trump Just Say He’s Going to Release the Nunes Memo?

Jan. 31 2018 12:54 AM | Christina Cauterucci Trump Didn’t Bother to Say What Happened to the Biological Mother in His Cop Adoption Anecdote

Jan. 31 2018 12:45 AM | Jim Newell Forget About It