CV NEWS FEED // President Donald Trump addressed a joint session of Congress Tuesday night.
In his speech – the first to both House and Senate lawmakers during his second term – the president underscored the various accomplishments of his administration in the month and a half since he was sworn in on Jan. 20th, and reassured Congress and the public that the nation was heading back in the right direction, after President Joe Biden’s tumultuous term in office.
“America is back,” Trump declared at the beginning of his address, as Congressional Republicans responded with chants of “USA!”
“Six weeks ago, I stood beneath the dome of this Capitol and proclaimed the dawn of the golden age of America,” continued the 47th president. “From that moment on, it has been nothing but swift and unrelenting action to usher in the greatest and most successful era in the history of our country.”
“We have accomplished more in 43 days than most administrations accomplish in four years or eight years,” he added, “and we are just getting started.”
“America’s momentum is back,” Trump emphasized. “Our spirit is back. Our pride is back. Our confidence is back. And the American dream is surging — bigger and better than ever before.”
The president proceeded to use the term “mandate” to refer to his wider than expected margin of victory in last year’s presidential race.
“For the first time in modern history, more Americans believe that our country is headed in the right direction than the wrong direction,” he said. “In fact, it’s an astonishing record: 27-point swing, the most ever.” Meanwhile during the Biden presidency less than six months ago, a poll found that 65% of Americans said the nation was on the “wrong track.”
Rep. Al Green, D-TX, proceeded to interrupt Trump’s speech on multiple occasions, wielding a cane in the president’s direction. In particular, Green seemed to take issue with Trump calling his decisive November 2024 election victory a “mandate.”
Green last month said he planned to file articles of impeachment against the president.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-LA, who was standing behind Trump and next to Vice President JD Vance, issued a stern warning to the congressman urging him to maintain decorum: “Mr. Green, take your seat.”
“Finding that members continue to engage in willful and concerted disruption of proper decorum, the chair now directs the sergeant-at-arms to restore order,” Johnson went on as personnel began to escort the cane-waving lawmaker out of the chamber.
Soon thereafter, the president directly addressed and appeared to challenge his political opponents.
“I look at the Democrats in front of me and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy or to make them stand or smile or applaud,” he indicated. “They won’t do it no matter what. … And it just shouldn’t be this way.”
“So, Democrats sitting before me, for just this one night, why not join us in celebrating so many incredible wins for America?” Trump asked. “For the good of our nation, let’s work together and let’s truly make America great again.”
Trump also noted in his speech: “The people elected me to do the job, and I’m doing it.” He referred to his presidency as “our presidency.”
“Within hours of taking the oath of office, I declared a national emergency on our southern border,” the president stated. “And I deployed the U.S. military and Border Patrol to repel the invasion of our country. … As a result, illegal border crossings last month were by far the lowest ever recorded ever.”
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Later in his remarks, Trump addressed the work undertaken by his administration’s new initiative, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
“We set records on ending unnecessary rules and regulations like no other president had done before,” he said. “We ordered all federal workers to return to the office. They will either show up for work in person or be removed from their job.”
Trump also stated that his administration “ended the tyranny of so-called diversity, equity and inclusion policies all across the entire federal government. … And our country will be woke no longer.”
“We have removed the poison of critical race theory from our public schools, and I signed an order making it the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male and female,” he continued. “I also signed an executive order to ban men from playing in women’s sports.”
COMMON SENSE REVOLUTION
President Trump touts his executive orders declaring the truth that there are only two genders, and booting men out of women’s sports.
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“What I have just described is only a small fraction of the common-sense revolution that is now — because of us — sweeping the entire world,” Trump summarized. “Common sense has become a common theme, and we will never go back, never.”
Present in the gallery during Trump’s speech were the mothers of Laken Riley, 22, and Jocelyn Nungaray 12, who were both brutally murdered by criminal illegal migrants last year.
“All three savages charged with Jocelyn and Laken’s murderers were members of the Venezuelan prison gang … Tren de Aragua,” Trump stated. He noted that he had two weeks earlier “officially designated this gang, along with MS-13 and the bloodthirsty Mexican drug cartels, as foreign terrorist organizations.”
“Countless thousands of these terrorists were welcomed into the U.S. by the Biden administration,” Trump said. “But now every last one will be rounded up and forcibly removed from our country, or if they are too dangerous, put in jails.”
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Another emotional moment during Trump’s speech came when he made DJ Daniel, 13 – a childhood cancer survivor with aspirations to become a law enforcement officer – an official U.S. Secret Service Agent. Daniel was present in the gallery and wearing a police uniform during the address.
Trump said that Daniel’s “doctors believe his cancer likely came from a chemical he was exposed to when he was younger.”
“Since 1975, rates of child cancer have increased by more than 40 percent,” the president noted. “Reversing this trend is one of the top priorities for our new presidential commission to Make America Healthy Again chaired by our new secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.”
“Our goal is to get toxins out of our environment, poisons out of our food supply, and keep our children healthy and strong,” Trump stressed.
Furthermore, the president said that he is “working tirelessly to end the savage conflict in Ukraine. Millions of Ukrainians and Russians have been needlessly killed or wounded in this horrific and brutal conflict with no end in sight.”
“The United States has sent hundreds of billions of dollars to support Ukraine’s defense with no security, with no anything,” he added. “Earlier today I received an important letter from President Zelenskyy of Ukraine. The letter reads: ‘Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer.’”
“It’s time to stop this madness,” Trump stressed. “It’s time to halt the killing. It’s time to end the senseless war. If you want to end wars, you have to talk to both sides.”
In his speech, Trump also briefly mentioned his July 13th assassination attempt: “I believe that my life was saved that day in Butler for a very good reason. I was saved by God to Make America Great Again — I believe that.”
“Now it is our time to take up the righteous cause of American liberty,” the president declared. “And it’s our turn to take America’s destiny into our own hands and begin the most thrilling days in the history of our country. This will be our greatest era.”
“With God’s help over the next four years, we are going to lead this nation even higher, and we are going to forge the freest, most advanced, most dynamic and most dominant civilization ever to exist on the face of this Earth,” he continued.
“Through it all, we are going to rediscover the unstoppable power of the American spirit, and we are going to renew unlimited promise of the American dream,” Trump went on. “Every single day we will stand up, and we will fight, fight, fight for the country our citizens believe in and for the country our people deserve.”
“Fight, fight, fight,” were the very words Trump mouthed seconds after a would-be assassin’s bullet came mere millimeters away from ending his life in Butler.
“My fellow Americans, get ready for an incredible future because the golden age of America has only just begun,” Trump concluded. “It will be like nothing that has ever been seen before.”
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