House chamber or bust: Why Trump blinked
Erin Burnett: The state of the union is not strong 03:42
Washington (CNN)In the hours after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's letter announcing she would not allow President Donald Trump to speak from the room she now controls, a flurry of suggestions and proposals emerged from Trump's advisers.
What about a speech on the US-Mexico border? Or an address at Philadelphia's Independence Hall, where the Constitution was adopted? Or a stately affair inside the White House, with an audience of Republicans?
No, Trump decided.
In the end, all those suggestions for an "alternate" State of the Union address were too narrow, too bland and too small. Instead, the President told them, he would wait for the only venue he really wanted for the annual speech: the US House.
While aides have still not ruled out some type of event next week to drive his message on border security and a wall, they have taken his direction and will not plan for a State of the Union address at any venue that isn't the House chamber.
Trump may still travel south to campaign for a wall, officials said it would not be billed as a State of the Union nor would it seek to fulfill the constitutional requirement to periodically update Congress on the country's condition.
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