The president of the United States, Donald Trump, highlighted the measures taken in his first weeks of management, especially in immigration policy. He insisted on retaking the Panama Canal, praised Elon Musk, and said Zelenskyy is ready to sign the agreement on rare minerals.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump delivered a speech on a joint session of the US Congress, 43 days after swear for the second time to charge.
After a long ovation by the Republicans, Trump began his message to the nation, almost two hours, at 21:19 local time in Washington.
“The United States is back,” he said at the beginning.
He highlighted the “rapid and implacable actions” that he made since he assumed the position, when he proclaimed “the dawn of the Golden Age of the United States.”
“We have achieved more in 43 days than most governments have achieved in 4 or 5 years and is just the beginning,” he said and then highlight the triumph he achieved at the polls.
While President Trump advanced the first part of his speech, he was interrupted by some Democratic representatives who had posters to protest against him and from the head of the congress there was a call to order and invited himself to go out to Green, Texas representative.
After his expulsion for repeatedly shouting to Trump that “he had no mandate” to cut Medicaid health insurance, Green made a surprise stop in the itinerant press room of the White House and answered some questions. “It is worth that people know that there are some people who are going to stand up,” said Green. He added that he did not know if he would face some formal punishment for his protest in the camera.
“I look at the Democrats in front of me and I realize that there is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy or to make them stand up or smile or applaud,” Trump said after Green's expulsion.
“Immigrants listened to my words”
During his speech, Trump considered that the emergency declaration on the southern border has successful after deploying the National Guard. “The number of crosses on the border have never been registered,” said President Trump and added that immigrants “listened to my words and chose not to come.”
The most crucial step is to ensure the borders of the United States, Trump said. He insisted that under the “open, so crazy and dangerous border policy” of the administration of Joe Biden they entered gangs that were enquilled “and we are taking them out at a well accelerated pace”, with raids and deportations.
“Now we are reaching the great liberation of the United States. But there is a lot of work to do yet,” he said.
He thanked the officials of his administration dedicated to the border issue and greeted the presence in the Congress of the mother and sister of the nursing student, Laken Riley, killed last year by a Venezuelan citizen who had irregularly entered through the southern border. Riley's name is now that of a law authorizing the detention of migrants accused of crimes.
He said that the Biden administration, “bent over the weight of immigrants,” he gave as an example that two Venezuelans killed a young woman in Texas, and in the same act showed the decree to rename a forest reserve in Texas with the name of the victim.
The defendants of the murder were members of the Aragua train, and Trump stressed that this criminal organization, together with the MS-13 and drug trafficking groups in Mexico are now considered terrorists.
President Trump said Mexico has delivered 29 members of the drug cartels “to please us”, but more need to be done.
I add that Mexico and Canada must “do more” to stop the traffic of fentanil, and hopes that Congress will soon work with legislation to face the problem.
Trump also pointed to public insecurity in the United States, especially with “radicalization”, and the existence of criminal gangs, adding that the protection of the police is crucial and that they should be given legal guarantees to act in compliance with duty.
Retake the Panama Canal
President Trump insisted on the recovery of the Panama Canal and said that the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, will be responsible for it. He took the opportunity to praise the efforts that the Head of the American diplomacy has been doing on this issue.
President Carter “delivered it to Panama for a dollar, but we are going to recover it, because it was built by the United States,” he said that it was not done for China, whom he has accused in the past of administering the channel. The president of Panama, Raul Mulino, has denied it.
He immediately pointed to the independent territory assigned to Denmark, Greenland, to be part of the United States. “We will keep them safe, we will make them rich and together we will take Greenland at heights that never imagined that they were possible,” he said. The island has said that it is not on sale.
Wink to Musk
Trump stressed that the dozens of executive orders that he has signed in the weeks in power are giving results. He highlighted the provisions for the United States to leave the Paris Agreement, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Human Rights Council, considering that “they are corrupt organizations.”
He also applauded the creation of the Government Efficiency Department (Doge) and Elon Musk's leadership. He thanked him effusively the arduous work he does, he said, “he doesn't need to do it.” Trump attributed to Musk the identification of “hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud.”
“We are going to lower inflation, food prices and protect the pockets of American families,” today the interest rates descended, Trump said, who added that in the future he wants to do what has not been done in 24 years, “balance the federal budget.”
The US president highlighted recent measures such as the creation of a gold card, which, he said, will allow “the most successful investors around the world to buy the road towards citizens. They will have to pay taxes to create jobs.”
“We are going to bring people who create jobs and we will reduce debt to that money,” he said.
Tax and tariff reduction
The president said it is committed to reducing taxes. “It is a large part of our plan,” he said and explained that they would be permanent cuts, especially for older adults.
And this measure would be expanded to the automotive industry, which would have a growth “as it has never been seen,” he added.
He announced that many companies “are going to build automotive plants in the United States and mentioned the Honda firm, which will build” one of the largest plants in the world. “
About the tariffs imposed on products from Mexico, Canada and China, Trump said that with the measure he tries to “protect the interests of the United States”, and considered that although there is a period of difficulty for a while, the final result will be successful for the country.
He reiterated his intention to impose additional reciprocal tariffs on April 2. “Other countries have used tariffs against us for decades, and now it is our turn to start using them against those other countries,” he said.
Zelenskyy, ready to sign agreement
President Trump said the conversations advance and that this day he had received letters from the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to accept the negotiations and “achieve lasting peace.”
He added that Ukraine is ready to sign the agreement on the rare minerals that the country possesses, required in negotiations as a form of payment for the United States, for the help sent to the country at war. “Ukraine is ready to sign it, and we have had serious conversations with Russia,” I trust that “we have received strong signs that the two are ready for peace.”
To close his message, Trump said his mission is to take the United States flag in the conquest to the planet Mars and that every step of his administration is focused on revitalizing the confidence of the US people promising that the golden era just begins. “It will be how it has never been seen,” he said.
After speech, Democratic Response arrived by Congressman Adriano Espaillatwho said that “we have seen a president who acts more as a king”, for the way he has and the executive orders he acts.
This speech of President Trump before Congress is not considered a report on the State of the Nation, although it has the same protocol rigor.