If it were not for the solemn scenario of the Washington Capitol, Donald Trump’s speech before the Congress on Tuesday could almost have gone through a campaign rally. The president resorted to his usual lies and exaggerations to launch a triumphalist speech six weeks after his return to the White House. He asked Congress for a tax and funds for deportations. He defended the cuts of Elon Musk, his crusade against irregular immigration, the tariff war and the turn of American politics on Ukraine. On this war, he said he received as a letter from Volodimir Zelenski the message that showed his willingness to negotiate. Trump also claimed the Panama Canal and said he will be done with Greenland.
“The United States has returned. Six weeks ago, I stood under the dome of this Capitol and proclaimed the dawn of the Golden Age of the United States. From that moment, there has been nothing more than a quick and implacable action to mark the beginning of the greatest and most successful era in the history of our country, ”began its speech. “The American dream is unstoppable, and our country is about to experience resurgence as the world has never seen, and perhaps never see again,” he continued.
Trump proclaimed, as the day of the investiture, “we have achieved more in 43 days than most administrations achieve in four or eight years, and we are only starting,” he said with that love of his for the hyperboles, in a high voltage and polarization session, in which half hemicycle he acclaimed him while another half protested.
For Trump he went to a congress that submitted him twice to political trial (impeachment). Five years after his last speech and four years after his followers to prevent his electoral defeat from being certified, Trump returned to a Capitol in which the Republicans have a majority in the two cameras. The fact that it did not bitter the celebration. He presented himself once again as a victim of a political persecution.
“In the last six weeks, to restore common sense, security, optimism and wealth throughout our wonderful country. The people chose me to do the job, and I am doing it. In fact, many have affirmed that the first month of our presidency is the most successful in the history of our nation, ”he continued to exaggerate without brake, even above George Washington, the father of the homeland. In his opposition style, which is the one in his nature, he described Joe Biden as a worse president in history,
Zelenski’s letter
It had been a lot more than an hour since his speech began when Trump talked about foreign policy. He began with his imperialist delusions, claiming the Panama Canal and the annexation of Greenland: “I think we will get it in one way or another.” Then he criticized the withdrawal of Afghanistan in the mandate of Joe Biden and announced the arrest and delivery of the “main responsible terrorist” of the attack of that day, which he said, was on his way to the United States at that time. He then referred to the Middle East and when an hour and a half of speech was almost fulfilled, he addressed the Ukraine War.
“I am tirelessly working to put an end to the wild conflict in Ukraine. Millions of Ukrainians and Russians have been murdered or wounded unnecessarily in this horrible and brutal conflict, without glimpsed by an end, ”he said, using new false figures on the help provided by the United States and Europe, although he conscious that he lied put a“ perhaps ”before the figure of 350,000 million dollars allegedly provided.
After that, he announced that he had received a letter from the president of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, in which he tells him that he is to sit down to negotiate and to sign the agreement on minerals and security as the United States wants. Actually, therefore, the content of Zelenski’s letter is, textually,
“Today I received an important letter from President Zelenski of Ukraine. The letter says: ‘Ukraine is ready to sit at the negotiating table as soon as possible to achieve lasting peace. My team and I are willing to work under the firm leadership of President Trump to achieve lasting peace. We really value how much the United States has done to help Ukraine maintain their sovereignty and independence. As for the Mineral and Security Agreement, Ukraine is willing to sign it at any time that suits them, ”said Trump.
The message, by social networks and epistolary, arrives only four days later in the Oval Office of the White House in an unprecedented episode. “I appreciate this letter. I just received it a while ago. At the same time, we have held serious conversations with Russia and we have received strong signs that they are prepared for peace. Wouldn’t it be wonderful? TRUE? Here, it’s time to put an end to this evil. It’s time to stop the killing. It is time to end this meaningless war. If you want to end wars, you have to talk to both parties, ”said Trump, whose turn in Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, has unleashed the alarm throughout Europe.
The economic situation
Trump boasted while proclaiming champion of deregulation. He also celebrated having retired from WHO, having renamed the Gulf of Mexico in the United States as Gulf of America and also mentioned others or fed by transphobia. He set the example of a girl present in the guest tribune that supported him after having suffered a brain injury playing volleyball for a ball of a trans athlete like “I had never seen before.”
“Among my maximum priorities is to rescue our economy and get a drastic and immediate relief for working families,” said Trump, who presented before Congress the US economy is because of some of its measures. Inflation expectations have been shot, consumers’ confidence has fallen strongly, and
“We inherited from the previous government an economic catastrophe and an inflation nightmare,” the Republican lied, since he inherited an economy growing at a good pace, with a very low unemployment rate, and an inflation already close to the 2%target. Trump said that with Biden the United States suffered inflation that was “perhaps” the worst in the history of the country, another embustury.
“As president, I fight every day to reverse this damage and make the United States be affordable again,” he said the same day that several companies warned that tariffs will raise prices. “Joe Biden, above all, let the price of the eggs get out of control, and we are working hard to go down again,” he added.
The measure to fight inflation that stands out is and its recipe to pierce and pierce in search of oil. Actually, the production of hydrocarbons beat records with its predecessor. “My administration is also working on a gigantic natural gas pipeline in Alaska, one of the largest in the world, in which Japan, South Korea and other nations want to be our partners, with billion dollars spent by them. It will be really spectacular, ”he said in one of his few ads. “At the end of this week, I will also take historical measures to drastically expand the production of critical minerals and rare earth here in the United States,” he added.
Trump announced his purpose of repealing the law of aid for investments in microprocessor factories that were approved with Joe Biden and instead promised incentives to the shipyards, a striking strategic choice.
Tariff Defense
Trump insisted that he will continue to impose tariffs, not the 1 because it is the day of the innocent. “I am a very superstitious person,” he justified, before throwing his threat: “Whatever the tariffs that impose us, we will impose ours. Whatever taxes that charge us, we will charge ours. If they impose non -monetary tariffs to keep ourselves out of their market, we will raise billions of dollars and create jobs as it has never seen before. ” Then he assured without foundation that the United States pays multimillionaire subsidies to Mexico and Canada,
Trump also said that Apple has announced “investments of 500,000 million.” There it was not clear if the president was also lying or if Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, had managed to deceive Trump to pass, as if they were investments.
The president praised Elon Musk, who went with a tie, and defended his cuts while ridiculed some assistance games abroad. Trump also asked the Congress to approve the fiscal sales that he promised in the campaign, including tank tax exemptions, at overtime and social security benefits.
His supporters interrupted him again and again standing with applause. With an hour and 40 minutes, it was the longest presidential speech pronounced before Congress. The Democrats exhibited signs and posters that accused Musk of stealing Ya Trump, of lying. The discourse of the State of the Union was decades ago an act with a certain bipartisan component, but those times were left behind. Trump tried to show a slightly medieval style, appointing a 13 -year -old boy with a brain tumor or admitting in West Point, the military academy, to the orphan of a dead agent in an act of service.
Border closure
The president took chest of what he considers one of the main achievements of his first weeks of mandate, taking advantage of again to criticize Biden. “Since I assumed the position, my administration has launched the most radical offensive in borders and immigration of the history of the United States, and we have quickly reached the lowest number of illegal border crosses ever registered,” he said. “The media and our friends of the Democratic party did not stop saying that we needed a new legislation to ensure the border, but it turned out that all we needed was a new president,” he said.
Trump insisted on his xenophobic speech that links immigration with crime, exploiting the pain of some of the victims of crimes committed by immigrants. And he assured that he maintains the plans to deport immigrants: “I have sent to Congress a detailed financing application in which exactly how we are going to eliminate these threats, protect our homeland and complete the greatest deportation operation in the history of the United States, even greater than that of the current record holder, Dwight D. Eisenhower, a moderate man, but who firmly believed in the borders. Americans expect Congress to send me this financing without delay, so that it can promulgate it, ”he said.
The Republican recalled that it was his fifth speech of that guy before Congress, of the type of speech on the state of the union, although the first of each mandate does not receive that name. He has three others left. “We are just starting.”
