With the midterms approaching and polls showing unease about the economy, some of President Trump’s arguments about its strength sounded eerily like those of his predecessor.

Minute by minute, what the president talked about in the first State of the Union address of his current presidency.

President Trump claimed in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night to have ushered in a “turnaround for the ages” by citing a list of familiar falsehoods and inaccurate claims. In nearly two ...