I feel sorry for critics of Trump's Warsaw speech

I’m normally a fan of CNN White House Correspondent Jeff Zeleny. His reporting tends to be more balanced and analytical than most. On Sunday, however, Zeleny presented a defective appraisal of President Trump’s speech last week in Warsaw, Poland.

Trump’s message, Zeleny stated, was not one “he could have given anywhere else. This was a white America, ‘America first’ kind of speech.” It offered “a stark view” about “migration, about immigration, about other things.” Zeleny suggested that “it wasn’t a modern-day speech, if you will, it was a sort of throwback speech.” A speech that said “be afraid about what’s happening in the world now.”

I couldn’t disagree more strongly.

For a start, it was indeed a modern speech. Early on in his address, Trump stated, “We are committed to securing your access to alternate sources of energy, so Poland and its neighbors are never again held hostage to a single supplier of energy.”