President Trump delivered a brilliantly cast oration last evening on the state of the new union, even though it did not budge his incurable critics, the liberal faces of fake news.

He must have earned more applause lines than any previous president.

Surely B. Obama watched with envy.

Sincerity, plain-talk, and bringing together the two major parties were three gleaming pillars of Mr. Trump’s golden speech.

Upbeat in every phase, Mr. Trump struck jackpot chords – patriotism, reactivating military heroism, rebuilding America’s purposely shattered reputation and stature across the world, bringing home jobs to revive the deliberately depleted workforce that is the spine of our still sagging economy.

Mr. Trump drew a large and popular red circle around school choice, one of the sorest Democrat sticking points.

During Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s confirmation process, Democrats daily flogged her for two reasons –she has earned more money than they have and she is a huge advocate for charter schools, which black and brown families crave, an irrelevancy for liberals from the race party. They need the massive funding they receive from the corrupt public school teachers’ national unions.

Although they form 98 percent of the print, electronic and online media, the angry one-note Johnnies on the left won’t even grudgingly make a congratulatory concession to the man they have been ordered to hate. They are sick with a terminal anti-Trump disease.

As for three of the leading exporters of fake news:

• Amazingly, USA Today did not bother to do a news story on Mr. Trump’s pivotal moment, just an op-ed by an angry woman who panned the talk.
• Employing fake language, the angry New York Times scolded the president: “Mr. Trump never mentioned legalizing undocumented people” – ahh, they meant to say illegal aliens.
• The Los Angeles Times, surprisingly and happily, was the fairest in its news reporting, relaying what President Trump said without smearing smarmy peanut butter over his face, as the Times usually does.

To say it differently, President Trump rose. His unimaginative critics remained ground-bound.