“This is America’s golden age,” Trump said right at the beginning of his speech. “We will never return to where we were just a short time ago,” the president pointed out. He allegedly took over the country in a “crisis”, but since then, according to him, “it has achieved a transformation that no one has seen before”. “It’s really a turnaround for the ages,” the head of the White House boasted.
Trump praises his anti-immigration policy, saying that the US borders are as secure as ever. “We will always allow people to come here legally,” he added. In connection with immigration and cases of misuse of public funds, he spoke of “Somali pirates who plundered Minnesota”. “If we can find enough of these frauds, we will have a balanced budget overnight,” Trump said. The federal budget deficit in fiscal year 2025 was 1.8 trillion dollars.
He mentioned Venezuela, whose authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro was arrested this year, as a “new friend and partner”.
Democratic Congressman Al Green was escorted out of the room holding a protest sign that read “Black people are not monkeys,” in an apparent reference to the AI video of former President Barack Obama that Trump recently shared. So far, the Republican president has introduced the men’s hockey team, which won gold at the Olympics and accepted Trump’s invitation, to applause. Goalkeeper Connor Hellebuyck will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest US civilian award, the head of the White House announced.
