One of the hallmarks of the State of the Union is the president of the United States greeting those in attendance at the U.S. Capitol on his way into the House chamber to deliver the address. Tuesday night, President Donald Trump glad-handed with lawmakers, administration officials, and Supreme Court justices while walking to the podium.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Representing the High Court was Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. Of the four, all but Kavanaugh recently ruled against the Trump administration in striking down tariffs<\/a> imposed under the 1977 International Emergency Economics Power Act (IEEPA) \u2013 and many wondered if Trump would admonish the court the way his predecessor Barack Obama did during the 2010 SOTU in the aftermath of the Citizens United decision.<\/p>\n If you were watching ABC News, you would have been led to believe Trump didn\u2019t wait for his speech to make his feelings known. According to World News Tonight anchor David Muir and chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl, the president shook hands with Roberts and ignored the other justices. The only problem? That\u2019s not what actually happened.<\/p>\n On Wednesday\u2019s show, Megyn was joined by Tom Bevan, Carl Cannon and Andrew Walworth of RealClearPolitics<\/a> to discuss the inaccurate reporting and the potential motive behind it.<\/p>\n The Erroneous Report<\/p>\n Reports and video show President Trump shook hands with all four justices present in the chamber as he entered for the State of the Union address. Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson, Clarence Thomas, Sonia Sotomayor, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch did not attend.<\/p>\n The chief justice was seated on the aisle and was first to shake Trump\u2019s hand, but the president also exchanged handshakes and pleasantries\u00a0with Kagan, Kavanaugh, and Barrett. In video of the entrance, Barrett could be seen smiling while visibly reaching out to shake Trump\u2019s hand as she said a few words.<\/p>\n But over on ABC News, here is how Muir and Karl described the encounter:<\/p>\n MUIR: We just saw the President obviously shake the Chief Justice\u2019s hand. There is justice Elana Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett. Of course, he chose Amy Coney Barrett for the bench. She was one of the justices who did not vote in his favor and he did not shake her hand there. Did interact with the Chief Justice, but then with none of the other justices. And Jon Karl, this was a question for the president today\u2026 It was clear to us at the White House that he didn\u2019t quite know how he was going to handle the justices when he got there tonight.<\/p>\n KARL: Interesting that shake, very quick shake with John Roberts and then going right by Amy Coney Barrett, who he put on the court\u2026 But Trump felt particularly betrayed by the justices that he put on the court that ruled against him.<\/p>\n During the SOTU address, Trump kept his critique of the court rather restrained, simply mentioning \u201can unfortunate ruling from the United States Supreme Court\u201d while speaking more broadly about his tariff policy.<\/p>\n After the speech wrapped \u2013 some two hours after the erroneous report took place \u2013 Muir was forced to do cleanup:<\/p>\n MUIR: We should point out\u2026 that he did shake their hands there this evening. There were a couple of shots that they showed, one of them making it very clear that not only did he shake the chief justice\u2019s hand but the others who had gathered there, including Amy Coney Barrett, who did not rule in his favor of the tariffs, though he did appoint her to the court.<\/p>\n \u201cThese little drama queens\u2026 They thought they had such a juicy moment the president snubbing his own appointee. No, that\u2019s not what happened at all, and they should be embarrassed,\u201d Megyn said. \u201cThey saw what they wanted to see.\u201d<\/p>\n A False Narrative<\/p>\n Megyn said Muir was likely told to correct the record, but Bevan said the correction was too little too late. \u201cThe apology comes two hours later, when the audience is probably a third of what it was when Trump was coming into the chamber,\u201d he noted. \u201cIt is the same thing over and over again, but clearly they wanted that. In their minds, they already had this narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n The problem, Bevan said, is that Trump didn\u2019t stick to the script Muir and Karl expected. \u201cTrump actually was very restrained, I think, to his credit, in terms of the way he dealt with the court. He was very cordial with them on the way in. He didn\u2019t attack them personally,\u201d he recalled. \u201cI thought he actually handled it much more deftly than most people, including all the media. They were all hyped up for him to attack the court. He didn\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/p>\n Megyn admitted the president defied even her own expectations. \u201cI actually predicted that he would attack them because he had and he is not afraid of doing it in somebody\u2019s face,\u201d she said. \u201cBut he went with decorum, to his credit, on the night in question and handled himself quite well.\u201d<\/p>\n In Megyn\u2019s view, the error from the ABC News team was not innocent. \u201cI will submit to you that there is a reason they made this blunder, which they then had to correct,\u201d she said. \u201cThose two clearly wanted their little catty moment of, \u2018Aha\u2026 it\u2019s all falling apart at the Supreme Court, and they hate him now too. And Trump blew it, and he\u2019s such a jerk. He didn\u2019t shake the hands.’\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBut he did shake the hands,\u201d Megyn concluded, \u201ceven though his own justices, whom he appointed \u2013 Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett \u2013 were two of the three\u2026 who sided with the libs.\u201d<\/p>\n You can check out Megyn\u2019s full interview with RealClearPolitics by tuning in to episode 1,260 on YouTube<\/a>, Apple Podcasts<\/a>, or wherever you like to listen. And don\u2019t forget that you can catch The Megyn Kelly Show live on SiriusXM\u2019s The Megyn Kelly Channel<\/a> (channel 111) weekdays from 12pm to 2pm ET.<\/p>\n Get all the news you need in 60 seconds or less with the American News Minute. 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