Less than 24 hours after President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, everyone who watched it or read about it has an opinion on either the 100-minute speech — the longest-ever by a president to Congress — or the hostile reaction from Democrats.

Historians of the presidency and the Congress who spoke to Newsmax are sharply divided on Trump’s message and its delivery as well as the reaction by Democrats.

“I am not given to hyperbole, but the speech revealed a dynamic leader of the free world and our nation,” Donald Critchlow, a history professor at Arizona State University, told Newsmax, “It was truly inspiring.

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