Bill McGurn: Trump Hasn’t Used the ‘Tremendous Bully Pulpit’ that Is the Oval Office

RUSH EXCERPT:
McGURN: "Yes, I think you ought to have done it on health care reform. It may have a different outcome. I’m not saying that Twitter is not useful. It is one of the tools of the presidency as we talked before when a president gives the State of the Union, for example in Congress, think of it. The opposition, which ever party, always looking so diminished because the stage is not nearly as grand as speaking to both houses of Congress. It is a chance for the president to speak directly to the American people and take them into the oval office. He is usually behind the desk as you know and make his case. It is one of the greatest tools. Like gems, it has to have a rarity to have value, but it was surprising that it went on used, tremendous bully pulpit."