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Six weeks after his presidency, Donald Trump arrived at an American Capitol controlled by his Republican party to take a long turn of the victory.
“We have achieved more in 43 days than most of the administrations achieved in four years or eight years, and we are just beginning,” he told the joint session of Congress.
In Trump’s typical hyperbole, he said that “many” believed it was the most successful beginning for a presidency in the history of the United States. He pointed out that what he said was a change in the national mood towards “pride” and “trust.” He compared with George Washington and boasted the size of his electoral victory.
The whirlwind begins his presidency offered a lot of material for Trump to cover it, and did not avoid it.
He obtained a long list of tangible achievements: hundreds of orders and executive actions, a freezing of foreign aid, lower levels of illegal border crossing and the withdrawal of international organizations and agreements.
He also spoke extensively about his prohibition of transgender athletes in women’s sports and movements to obtain “awakened ideology” of the United States and military schools.
“Wokeness is a problem. Wokeness is bad. It’s gone, it’s gone, and we feel much better about it, right?”
Meanwhile, the Democrats, who filled half of the audience in the House of the House of Representatives, sat in frozen silence, as they blame them repeatedly, former President Joe Biden and “Radical Lunatics” for all the evils of the nation.
Several dozen responded holding small black signs with words such as “false” and “lies.”
The president seemed to enjoy by placing the “thug” in the presidential pulpit of the bully.
He punctured his political adversaries, mocking his refusal to encourage his comments, dusting his nickname “Pocahontas” for Massachusetts Democratic Senator, Elizabeth Warren, and pointed out with irony that tries to process him “did not work” for his opponents.
However, Texas Congressman Al Green was not close to seeing any of that.
At the beginning of Trump’s speech, the Democrat had argued the president, his mostly inaudible comments scored with repeated thrusts of his cane. The speaker of the House of Representatives requested decorum and the sergeant of weapons of the Chamber escort the congressman of the Chamber.
Green would tell journalists outside the Capitol that he was protesting the cuts proposed to Medicaid Health Insurance administered by the Government for low -income Americans.
After approximately half an hour to promote his opening actions, Trump resorted to the tasks he still needed to comply. That formed most of a speech that extended for more than an hour and 40 minutes. It was a standard presidential direction rate, and Trump’s rhetorical florites began to blur.
While he said that the “optimism of small businesses” was updated, blamed Biden for the current state of the economy, including high egg prices. He promised to “rescue” the economy and make “dramatic and immediate relief for working families” be their highest priority.
He called Elon Musk at the audience and said that his government efficiency department (Doge) would reduce inflation by reducing unnecessary expenditure and fraud, which led him to recite a laundry of alleged examples in foreign aid and other government programs.
Trump leaned strongly in promises of greater progress in the application of immigration and offered a animated defense of their tariff policies, saying that they were “protecting the soul of our country”, even if most economists warn that they will lead to higher prices for US consumers.
The president acknowledged that adding a tax to the imported goods from Canada, Mexico and China could cause a “disturbance” and that American farmers could feel a “indigestion period.”
But nothing in his comments suggested that he was moving away from a commercial commercial war that has traveled the stock market in recent days; In fact, he promised to advance with reciprocal tariffs in all the United States business partners next month.
Trump once again promised to balance the budget, which caused a round of applause of Republican legislators. However, he did not provide details about the type of steep cuts that such promise would require.
In fact, he quickly resorted to discussing the tax cuts that he expects Congress to promulgate, including his non -tax campaign promises on advice, overtime or social security. Any of those, if promulgated, would add hundreds of billions of dollars to the current budget deficit of almost $ 2TN.
The foreign policy is rarely in charge and the center in these presidential addresses, and that was the case this time despite how Trump has shaken global policy in the first weeks of his second term.
He repeated his desire for an American annexation of Greenland, promised American control of the Panama Canal and only made a brief mention of Gaza and the Middle East.
The president spoke more extensively about negotiation with Russia for peace in Ukraine. And he was pleased to read a letter that said he had just received from Volodymyr Zelensky, which was similar to a message that the Ukrainian leader published in X earlier in the day.
“He said: ‘My team and I are ready to work under the strong leadership of President Trump to obtain a peace that lasts. We really value how much the United States has done to help Ukraine maintain his sovereignty and independence.’
Trump added that Zelensky had said he was ready to sign an agreement on minerals and security “at any time that is convenient for you.”
“I appreciate that,” Trump told the Chamber, offering an indication of a possible cooling of the acrimony between the two leaders.
When Trump ended and the Democrats practically ran for the exits, his speech had established a modern record for the longest presidential discourse for Congress. Like the first six weeks of Trump’s presidency, there was a lot for his followers to love, and much for his critics, at least those who tuned, to make fun.