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Live coverage: Donald Trump delivers 2020 State of the Union address

As Donald Trump ended his State of the Union speech, most people applauded. But a political rival did something that has led critics to fume. 

Pelosi rips up Trump's speech (ABC)

As Donald Trump ended his annual State of the Union speech today, the room erupted in applause. But behind him, his political nemesis was fuming.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi - the most senior Democrat in Congress - had spent most of the previous hour and 18 minutes sitting behind Mr Trump in stony, disapproving silence.

Her frustration boiled over as he stepped away from the microphone. Knowing the cameras were on her, Ms Pelosi raised her copy of the President's speech and ripped it in half.

That was the final, lasting image from an unusually partisan State of the Union, in which Mr Trump accused the Democrats of proposing "socialist" health care policies, railed against illegal immigrants and awarded America's highest civilian honour, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to a controversial right-wing radio host.

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Originally published as Live coverage: Donald Trump delivers 2020 State of the Union address

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