Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will deliver the Democratic response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Feb. 4, party leaders announced Friday.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s decision to tap Whitmer comes she’s increasingly been cited as a model for Democrats in the Trump era.

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President Donald Trump is back in town — and he’s plotting to make his case as he faces a looming impeachment trial and the possibility of a violent confrontation with Iran.

Trump will hit the campaign trail in 2020 with a pair of rallies in Ohio and Wisconsin over the next week. He’s then expected to give a traditional presidential interview during the Super Bowl — often the most watched TV event of the year. And two days after that, he’ll deliver his State of the Union address to tens of millions of people watching at home.

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that President Donald Trump's oblique denunciation of probes into his administration was a signal that he is "scared" of such inquiries and "has something to hide."

Delivering his State of the Union address Tuesday night, the president touted his administration's claimed successes, telling the joint session of Congress that "an economic miracle is taking place in the United States and the only things that can stop it are foolish wars, politics, or ridiculous partisan investigations." The warning was interpreted by many as criticism not just of the ongoing Russia investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller, but also of the myriad oversight probes expected from the new Democratic majority in the House.

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President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, as it unfolded, was a dizzying and even disorienting experience, a cascade of rhetorical passages that seemed to contradict each other every few moments.

Appeals for unity and bipartisanship jostled with ideological and cultural scab-picking. Theatrics used by all modern presidents to swell the heart or moisten the eye — We are joined in the gallery tonight by … — were followed by the honking boasts of a MAGA rally.

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President Donald Trump is scheduled to appear before a joint session of the 116th Congress in the chamber of the House of Representatives to deliver the 2019 State of the Union address on Feb. 5, at 9 p.m.

Watch the speech above or click here.

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In the middle of a State of the Union briefing for the White House’s closest allies Monday night, a fired up Donald Trump walked in.

The president appeared eager to give the annual speech Tuesday night in the House of Representatives, an occasion he has always enjoyed given its history and pomp and circumstance, said two people briefed on the meeting. But after acknowledging several supporters in the room, Trump went on for about five minutes about Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s recent comments about late-term abortions and "nonviable" babies born with fatal abnormalities.

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday panned the upcoming State of the Union address hours before President Donald Trump was set to deliver it, predicting "empty" rhetoric and policy goals from the president's address to a joint session of Congress.

Speaking on the Senate floor Tuesday morning, Schumer (D-N.Y.) forecasted that Trump would exaggerate — if not lie about — his administration's achievements and offer a litany of empty promises. Schumer listed a number of promises Trump made during his last State of the Union, from defeating ISIS to opening more manufacturing plants in the country, that the minority leader said the president has failed to keep in the months since.

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President Donald Trump keeps telling Democrats he wants a big bipartisan drug pricing deal. But Democrats don't believe him — and are rolling out a series of bills that would set the framework for talks far to the left, defying Trump to stand in the way.

At the center of that effort is empowering Medicare to directly negotiate drug prices — a top liberal priority that's faced near-universal opposition from Republicans, yet won Trump's support when he ran for president.

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President Donald Trump will have an off-the-record lunch with broadcast and cable news anchors on Tuesday, an annual White House tradition held on the afternoon of the State of the Union address.

At these lunches, the president typically outlines that night's speech to anchors who are involved in coverage. PBS's Judy Woodruff, C-SPAN's Steve Scully, CBN News's David Brody, and Fox News’s Chris Wallace and Martha MacCallum are all expected to attend Tuesday's gathering, among others.

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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have invited 13 Americans to join them for the State of the Union address on Tuesday, including a Delaware sixth-grader who shares the first couple’s last name and says the similarity has led to bullying.

“When the teacher is like, ‘Joshua Trump, are you here?’ I’ll go, ‘Yes,’ and almost everybody will laugh, besides my friends,” Joshua told “Inside Edition” in an interview, before his invitation was announced.

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When and what time is Trump delivering the 2019 State of the Union?

President Donald Trump is scheduled to appear before a joint session of the 116th Congress in the chamber of the House of Representatives to deliver the 2019 State of the Union address on Feb. 5, at 9 p.m.

How can I watch this year’s SOTU?

All major networks and cable news channels will broadcast the speech live. The White House will stream it live on its website, as will news networks through Facebook.

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President Donald Trump might be the most untraditional president in modern history, but he has taken a strikingly traditional approach to that most presidential of rituals: speaking to Congress.

In each of the past two years, Trump has delivered a lofty, optimistic annual message on Capitol Hill, reading dutifully from a teleprompter and setting aside his personal insults, attacks on the media, even his rambling boasts.

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President Donald Trump plans to use Tuesday night’s State of the Union address to promise an end to the HIV epidemic in America, four individuals with knowledge of the planned remarks told POLITICO.

Under Trump’s 10-year strategy, health officials would target the U.S. communities with the most HIV infections and work to reduce transmissions by 2030. The strategy has been championed by top health officials, including HHS Secretary Alex Azar and CDC Director Robert Redfield.

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President Donald Trump is telling conservative allies he wants to incorporate firm anti-abortion language into his State of the Union address Tuesday, and potentially include an anti-abortion figure among his list of invitees, according to four sources familiar with his plans

Trump sees an opening to energize his evangelical supporters and capture moderate voters who administration officials believe may be turned off by widespread coverage of New York’s newest abortion law, which allows for termination of some pregnancies after the 24-week mark for health reasons.

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi has sent a letter to President Donald Trump asking him to deliver the State of the Union address on February 5.

Pelosi had previously rescinded her invitation to Trump to give the address on Jan. 29, citing security concerns due to the government shutdown. Trump and Republicans were furious at Pelosi's unprecedented move, but they were powerless to prevent it.

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House Majority Whip James Clyburn said Thursday morning he is “a bit more hopeful” about lawmakers’ prospects of ending the 34-day government shutdown in light of President Donald Trump’s concession to Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s request to delay his State of the Union speech until the government reopens.

“When I woke up earlier this morning and heard about that tweet concerning the president's position on the State of the Union, I did feel a bit more hopeful," Clyburn said on CNN’s “New Day.” "And I remain a bit more hopeful."

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The White House is forging ahead with plans to hold President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address in the House chamber next Tuesday, according to two administration officials, daring Speaker Nancy Pelosi to nix the event.

Senior White House aides said they put no stock in Pelosi’s letter requesting a delay of the annual event because of security concerns related to the government shutdown. They insist the Homeland Security Department and U.S. Secret Service are prepared to secure the address, which traditionally is attended by senior representatives from all three branches of government.

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An end to the government shutdown looked more distant than ever on Thursday after President Donald Trump abruptly canceled Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s planned visit to Afghanistan.

The White House publicly released a terse letter informing Pelosi that her planned travel had been “postponed,” shortly after Trump ordered the Pentagon to cancel her Air Force flight to the country. A bus carrying several House Democrats who were to accompany Pelosi was preparing to leave for the airport at the time.

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Sen. Rand Paul suggested Thursday that President Donald Trump should hold his State of the Union address in the Senate after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked the president to reschedule his annual speech while the government remains shut down.

The Kentucky Republican called Pelosi’s request “a real affront to the American people” on “Fox & Friends” and urged Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to invite Trump to the Senate.

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Donald Trump may have finally met his match in Nancy Pelosi.

As the partial government shutdown grinds on with no end in sight, the struggle between the president and the speaker is becoming an unprecedented political fight — with the fallout likely to extend far beyond this episode.

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