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On 30 January 2018, President Trump delivered his first State of the Union address, eliciting both praise and criticism, including a written response from Faiz Shakir of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) condemning Trump's speech as exclusionary and divisive. In a classic case of either missing or purposely misrepresenting the point (it's hard to tell which), the right-wing web site CNS News published an article (and other sites with a similar slant reposted it) declaring that the ACLU had complained that Trump repeated the word America more than 80 times during his address: We, too, counted more than 80 instances of America (including variants such as American or Americans) in a transcript of the address, but that's neither here nor there. We're not shocked or dismayed, and we can only assume the political director of the ACLU wasn't shocked or dismayed, that a presidential address would contain so many references to America and Americans. The shocker, rather, is that CNS News had the temerity to open their article with a statement directly contradicted by the quote that followed, in which Shakir clearly did not complain about Trump's repeated use of the word America. On the contrary, he criticized Trump for advocating immigration policies that, in his view, go against everything America stands for.
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