Washington (AP) – President Donald Trump After his previous speeches before the congress, he once had the need to ask the legislators to say goodbye to his agenda. Not so much anymore.
Trump, who appeals to the congress on Tuesday evening, has claimed his authority to re -change the Federal Government without having to consult the legislative. This is a break from his earlier comments on the congress, in which he explicitly searched for the support of the legislators for many of the actions that he has now taken unilaterally.
Trump alone signed the punishment of taxes on imports to illegally deport immigrants in the country, to disappoint hundreds of thousands of federal workers and to freeze approved expenses. This approach gives limits because it will still need the lend a hand of the legislators to extend his tax cuts for 2017.
But the speeches that were kept during Trump’s first term show his development as a guide. His hopeful rhetoric in 2017 gave way to a state of the Union 2020 in which Democrats were socialists. The event that the United States defined this year – the Coronavirus pandemic – was only given a brief mention from Trump.
“The torch of truth, freedom and justice”
In his speech from 2017, Trump had already shocked the public with his crucial inaugural speech “American Carnage”. But Trump was more bullish for his speech to the congress.
He began with a celebration of civil rights, since February is the Black History Month, an event that the President made a moral obligation for the country at that time.
“Every American generation gives the torch of truth, freedom and justice in an unbroken chain,” said Trump. “This torch is now in our hands. And we will operate it to illuminate the world. I am here tonight to send a message from unity and strength, and it is a message that is transmitted deep from my heart. “
This year, Trump is entering his speech after tired a wholesale to eliminate any initiatives for diversity, justice and inclusion in the government, companies and schools.
In his speech of 2017, Trump stated an apparently courageous promise to stop crime, to secure the southern border, to reduce taxes and to restore production as an engine of the US economy. It was still a moment when the president himself tried to navigate in a Washington in which he was an outsider and stranger.
In his statements, he suggested that tariffs would lend a hand iconic American companies such as Harley-Davidson, the motorcycle manufacturer. It was both an expression of his core belief on tariffs and a sign of critics that import taxes may not be the healing that Trump claimed.
When Trump spoke in 2017, stocks in Harley-Davidson sold for more than $ 55 per share. The price fell tender according to his comments and left during the 2020 pandemic. Since the beginning of 2025 with Trump’s return, the stock price of the motorcycle manufacturer has continued to drop to 26 US dollars.
“Our new American moment”
In his state in 2018, Trump achieved great legislative victory with his law on tax reductions and jobs.
In December 2017, it signed, reducing corporation tax rate to 21% and included a number of individual income tax cuts that should take place after 2025. The Republicans emphasized the width of the tax reductions of 2 trillion dollars, while the Democrats found how they came to the luxurious.
“This is our new American moment,” promised Trump. “There has never been a better time to live the American dream.”
The President found that employers had paid around 3 million employees “tax cuts” and that the middle family income would raise by 4,000 US dollars (which more than in 2019, only to fall with pandemic and raise in inflation during the first two years in office of President Joe Biden).
Trump also noticed that “Apple has just announced that it would invest a total of 350 billion US dollars in America and hire another 20,000 employees.” If this claim sounds familiar, the White House has highlighted Apple’s plans in the next four years in the next four years, even though the company had already planned to raise its domestic production.
Trump also asked Congress to give the executive the authority to “remove federal employees who undermine public trust or did not pass the American people”. The President applied for more than 1 trillion US dollar of infrastructure investments (which ultimately made bidges available a cross -party law) and an immigration law that would cut the border, but “a way to citizenship for 1.8 million illegal immigrants who were brought here by their parents at a young age”.
“Size or standstill”
According to Trump’s state of the Union in 2019, the Democrats had recaptured the majority of representatives after a midterms shellacking of the Republicans. The president stated his rhetoric and demanded a cross -party partnership.
“We have to choose between size or dam, results or resistance, vision or revenge, incredible progress or senseless destruction,” he said. “Tonight I ask you to choose size.”
However, there was also a request that Democrats did not examine the actions of his administration. He suggested without evidence that investigations into his taxes, conflicts and other matters could undermine economic growth.
“An economic miracle takes place in the United States – and the only thing it can stop is stupid war, politics or ridiculous party political investigations,” said Trump.
The president again urged harder measures to stop illegal immigration and asked the congress to give him the authority to impose “mutual” tariffs, so that the import taxes accused by the United States would match those of other countries.
By December 2019, the Trump house had accused the military aid of Ukraine, unless bidens examined the leadership of this country.
“A socialist takeover”
After Trump avoided the conviction due to his initial office, he took over a very party -political tone in his speech of the Union in 2020 when he was looking for a re -election. He beat the “radical left” and said that democratic cities did not houses authorized immigrants who were violent criminals.
The beginning of Trump’s speech was an fearless highlight role of the strength of the economy.
“To those who watch at home tonight, I want them to know that we will never have socialism destroyed American health care,” said Trump.
In the text of his speech at the beginning of February, Trump was still the Coronavirus pandemic as a problem for China from which he would protect the United States. He ignored the economic data that showed a loss of animated in the US production sector. No public debt or deficits were mentioned.
“The best thing is still coming,” promised Trump.
The then house spokesman Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Then opened her copy of the speech. About six weeks after Trump’s speech, the country would be in a blocking, since millions of people were released due to pandemic and the government was borrowed from billion dollars to stabilize a infirmed economy.
