LIZ PEEK: Top takeaways from Trump's speech to Congress. Start with making America optimistic again

President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress and to the American radical was a beardown reaffirmation of his run promises to marque America large again, marque American steadfast again and truthful overmuch more. Befitting the melodramatic vigor of his archetypal six weeks, the president spoke astatine length, recounting not lone his administration’s galore accomplishments but besides laying retired an docket for the adjacent 4 years. 

It was a powerful, uplifting and timely message. Timely, due to the fact that successful caller days the state has been buffeted by concerns astir a commercialized warfare and spats with overseas allies; the president’s forceful arguments successful favour of his docket were reassuring. 

The biggest takeaway: Donald Trump is the astir bonzer president of this procreation and 1 of the astir singular, authentic governmental leaders this state has ever seen. Like him oregon hatred him, nary 1 tin quality that his imprint connected our state has already been and volition proceed to beryllium significant.

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Republicans cheered his code connected excessively galore occasions to count, portion Democrats were sullen and disruptive. Early successful the speech, Texas Democrat Rep. Al Green tried to unopen down the president, waving his cane and shouting; House Speaker Mike Johnson had the Sergeant astatine Arms region the disruptor. 

During the remainder of the evening, Democrats contented themselves chiefly with occasionally booing the president, arsenic erstwhile helium recounted his predetermination win. It was an unusual prime since determination is nary disputing his victory. Otherwise, they occasionally held up small signs that work "FALSE," disputing immoderate of the president’s claims. Their protests seemed small much than sour grapes and pointless, emblematic of their existent disarray.

Trump’s code was astatine turns humorous, astatine times combative and successful immoderate instances touching. Most heartwarming were the stories astir immoderate of the guests who attended, including 1 young lad who ever wanted to beryllium a constabulary serviceman but who was diagnosed with brain crab several years ago. The 13-year-old has outlived his doctor’s terrible prognosis, and meanwhile, has been made an honorary subordinate of assorted constabulary organizations. The president instructed the Secret Service to designate him an honorary agent, bringing the House down, but for Democrats who were unmoved.

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As expected, the president took a triumph lap, recounting the dizzying enactment of the past six weeks, including his 100 enforcement orders and 400 enforcement actions. He noted particularly the palmy efforts to thrust down amerciable crossings astatine the confederate border, which are astatine the lowest level ever recorded. As helium enactment it, "The media and our friends successful the Democrat Party kept saying we needed new LEGISLATION to unafraid the border—but it turned out that all we truly needed was a new PRESIDENT."

He besides boasted that helium and his squad person brought location hostages (one of whom – Mark Fogel – was a featured guest), removed DEI programs from the government, changed the sanction of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, designated Venezuelan gangs and Mexican cause cartels arsenic panic organizations, "reclaimed" the Panama Canal, removed captious contention mentation from schools, ended the "green caller scam" arsenic helium called it, and person withdrawn from the Paris Climate Accord, the World Health Organization and the U.N. Human Rights Commission.

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Trump spent overmuch clip listing a bucketload of wasteful spending that had truthful acold been eliminated by DOGE, and thanked Elon Musk for starring that effort. Some of the items listed were preposterous, similar "$45 cardinal for diversity, equity, and inclusion scholarships successful Burma," "$47 cardinal for amended ‘learning outcomes’ successful Asia" and "$14 cardinal for "social cohesion successful Mali." He besides noted the millions of radical implicit the property of 110 who are receiving societal information payments. He joked to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that "We person a healthier state than I thought, Bobby!" If helium was trying to physique enactment for DOGE’s work, helium made his case.

That was important not lone due to the fact that Democrats and the wide media are moving overtime to undermine Elon Musk and his team’s efforts to basal retired fraud and waste, but due to the fact that it besides tied into Trump’s connection connected inflation. Rising prices are inactive voters’ fig 1 concern, and caller reports of persistent ostentation and the fearfulness that tariffs mightiness thrust prices higher person roiled the banal marketplace and depressed user sentiment.

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Trump rightly argued that the main origin of ostentation was excessive authorities spending nether President Joe Biden, and that the enactment of DOGE is captious to curbing our outsized fiscal deficit. He admitted that the imposition of tariffs could nutrient immoderate upheaval successful the abbreviated run, but that leveling the playing tract and tackling our immense commercialized shortage by imposing reciprocal penalties connected our trading partners would yet besides little our shortage and bring location jobs. He noted that already tariffs person encouraged Honda to physique a caller car successful the U.S. alternatively of Mexico, and that different companies were likewise bringing concern into the country. 

Part of his program to trim costs is to boost vigor production, aft Biden "cut the number of caller lipid and state leases by 95%, slowed pipeline construction to a halt, and closed much than 100 power plants." Trump recounted that connected Day One helium had declared an vigor emergency, and that helium volition propulsion to "Drill, baby, drill."

Another cardinal constituent successful his economical docket is to chopped taxes, with the assistance of Congress, and to trim regulations. He has directed that for each caller regularisation enactment successful place, 10 indispensable beryllium eliminated. That volition help.

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The taxable of Trump’s code was the renewal of the American dream.  He is disconnected to a bully start, but Americans volition privation to spot results and, successful particular, privation to spot ostentation subside. Tuesday night’s code volition not bring down the outgo of eggs, but it whitethorn boost assurance that his policies volition yet wage off. 

That volition beryllium a win, for Trump and the country. 

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