Washington – The president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, invited President Donald Trump on Saturday to pronounce a speech against Congress in March, a speech that would mark Trump’s first joint speech against Congress during his second term.
In the letter, Johnson asked Trump to talk to both Congress cameras on March 4 “to share his United States vision first for our legislative future.”
“I look forward to your response,” added Johnson, Republican for the.
The joint sessions or meetings of Congress are often reserved for the president or other heads of state to comment on their priorities, they often occur several times a year. Last year there were three joint sessions, during which the then President Joe Biden, former Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamín Netanyahu went to Congress.
Presidents usually pronounce their speeches about the state of the Union in February or March, although Johnson’s letter did not refer to a speech about the state of the Union.
“The Golden Age of the United States has begun,” Johnson said in the letter. “Thanks to its strong leadership and its bold actions in the early days of its presidency, the United States is already experiencing a resurgence of patriotism, unity and hope for the future.”
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
Trump has been aimed at joint sessions of Congress another four times, according to Senate records. Three of his previous speeches were for the annual discourse on the state of the Union, while his first speech was before Congress a little more than a month after starting his first term.
His most recent speech in a joint session was in February 2020, approximately one month before the Covid-19 pandemic paralyzed much of the country and the death toll began to increase rapidly.
In that speech, Trump criticized his opponents as part of the “radical left” and awarded the presidential medal of La Libertad to the presenter of a conservative interview program Rush Limbaugh, an unorthodox measure for the annual discourse. The then president of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, who was sitting behind Trump, broke in particular a copy of his speech moments after the president concluded his comments.
