Washington – President Donald Trump promoted his recently tax tariffs and enjoyed the republican applause for the rapid early actions of his administration, while provoking a wave of protests by the Democrats while talking with a joint session of Congress on Tuesday.
Likeing cultural wars, Trump invested against transgender rights, “they” pronouns and diversity, equity and inclusion programs. He celebrated his offensive against migration. He repeatedly made fun of his predecessor, Joe Biden, saying that the former president imposed “crazy and very dangerous open border policies” and offered little on the path of the olive branches to the Democrats, instead of promoting his 2024 victory as a mandate to remodel the nation.
“Wokeness is bad,” Trump said. “It’s gone.”
The Democrats of the Congress in the room eighteed and interrupted to Trump, shouting that he did not cut Medicaid, stirring an eclectic mixture of signs to protest him and shout periodically antagonisticly.
Here are five conclusions of the speech, and how the rest of Trump’s 2025 establishes.
Trump defends his rates
Trump defended the 25% tariffs that he imposed on Tuesday in products from Canada and Mexico, saying “now is our turn” after other countries have raised them against the United States.
“It is very unfair,” Trump said as dozens of Republicans to applaud his tariffs, who said that “they are trying to protect the soul of our country.”
It is a sign of how Trump has transformed the traditionally professional republican party, although there is some concern in the party on the effects of tariffs on prices and the economy in general.
“There will be some disturbance,” Trump added. “But we agree with that. It won’t be much. ”
The rates sent the actions to fly on Tuesday, and some Democrats shouted “Market of Securities!” While Trump spoke.
Trump also promised an economic rebirth and blamed continuous problems such as inflation and egg prices in Biden.
Trump describes his political agenda
Trump spent significant time in transgender athlete issues to the work of the Government’s efficiency department. But the most important thing in which Congress can work this year will be a massive bill of taxes and expenses, and Trump described his priorities.
Trump reiterated his calls to reduce taxes and include several campaign tax promises in a bill at the end of this year, specifically killing taxes on extra tips and hours. The Republicans of Congress are struggling with the viability of these proposals while seeking to approve a great bill of the party line to advance in the central pieces of the Trump agenda. They are still looking to find space for the billions of tax exemptions that Trump has asked for.
Trump also requested to repeal the law of files and sciences, a bipartisan law that approved Senate 64-33 and was signed by Biden in 2022.
“We should get rid of the Chip Law,” Trump said, referring to the law that invests in national research and semiconductor manufacturing.
Democrats bother, waves and interrupt
A few minutes after the beginning of Trump, the representative to Green, D-Texas, interrupted and said, shouting: “You have no mandate to cut Medicaid.” He was escorted after he refused to stop screaming. There were other unintelligible shouts of the Democrats during the speech. At another time, several Democratic members went out in protest.
A group of Democrats from the representatives chamber stirred signs that said “Musks robberies”, “Save Medicaid” and “Protect veterans.” The representative Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Brought a blackboard and wrote different messages about him through Trump’s speech, including “no King” and “Lies”.
Some Democrats laughed out when Trump said the era of the “bureaucrats not chosen” has ended, and pointed to Trump’s multimillionaire advisor, Elon Musk, who watched from the gallery.
Other Democrats jumped the speech completely, including Senator Chris Murphy, of Connecticut, who wants to direct the strategy of his party, and Senator Patty Murray, of Washington, vice president of the Assignments Committee and the recent former president of the Senate, Pro Tempore.
The three main Democratic leaders in each camera attended. They, like most others in the game, sat in silence and heard without interrupting Trump’s comments, while the Democrats work in their loss last year and the best way to advance their agenda and oppose Trump in 2025 and beyond.
Trump is soaked in the adulation of the Republican Party
Months have passed since Trump played before the crowd in one of his characteristic political manifestations. He welcomed a hero and a great ovation of the Republicans in the Capitol, who regularly stood up to applaud him.
As Trump said, he is freeing the “repression of the most radical border and immigration in the history of the United States” and promoted the actions he has taken, the republican side of the hall broke out in the songs of “Trump! Triumph! Triumph.”
Trump did not have an olive branch to offer his opponents, instead that they sharpen the Democrats at the beginning of their speech, saying that there was nothing that could say that he made them applaud or smile, and then exploit “radical lunats of the left” whom he called weak for the crime. In response, some Democrats shouted: “January 6!” Referring to the forgives of Trump’s protesters who broke into the Capitol, some of whom attacked the police.
Biden offered during his first speech to Congress to form a team in “bipartisan” objectives, a word that used several times in 2021, such as infrastructure, cancer research and access to education.
Meanwhile, Trump rebuked the Democrats at the beginning of his speech for refusing to give him enough. He established the early tone by calling Biden “the worst president in American history” and played with a presidential tradition for a long time: to blame his predecessor for the problems facing the country.
“Everyone here, even this side, I appreciate you,” Trump joked, causing laughter on the republican side of the hall.
Ukraine, Panama Canal and Greenland
Trump lamented the billions of dollars that the United States has spent to help Ukraine defend against the incursion of Russia, causing ironic and prolonged applause of democrats who support military and economic assistance.
“Do you want to keep it in operation for another five years?” Trump asked.
“Pocahontas says yes,” he said, using a mocking nickname for Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Which led numerous Democrats to leave the camera.
Trump also kept his calls to take the Panama and Greenland channel to the control of the United States.
“We did not give it to China. We gave it to Panama. We are recovering it, ”Trump said on the Panama Canal.
“We need Greenland for national security and international security,” he continued, describing it as “very, very large land.”
“I think we are going to get it. One way or another, we will get it, ”he said as the Republicans applauded and laughed.
