Highlights from President Donald Trump's 2025 joint address to Congress

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

74% : Every time Trump boasts of his accomplishments, they hold up the signs.
71% : Trump said: "Among my very highest priorities is to rescue our economy and get dramatic and immediate relief to working families.
70% : Here's the latest: Trump has set a record for the longest address to a joint session of Congress.
70% : Now, Trump is using Biden's line to suggest that his return to the presidency means his vision of America is back.
68% : Trump has repeatedly claimed that the Army had its best recruiting in January, suggesting that the turnaround is tied to his time in office.
66% : Trump said that driving down childhood cancer rates and studying autism cases in the U.S. will be a top priority for his health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine and environmental advocate who is lobbying to redesign the U.S. food supply.
66% : He then seemingly joked: "I'm going to use that bill for myself, too, if you don't mind." "Tariffs are about making America rich again and making America great again," Trump said.
66% : Trump issued an executive order on his first day in office that revokes a nonbinding goal set by Biden that EVs make up half of new cars sold by 2030.
65% : Trump is touting a plan he announced on Feb. 26 to offer a "gold card" for prospective rich immigrants.
62% : Other guests of Trump and First Lady Melania Trump received scattered seated applause from Democrats as well.
61% : "The death of this beautiful 12-year-old girl and the agony of her mother and family touched our entire nation greatly," Trump said.
61% : "For $5 million, we will allow the most successful job creating people from all over the world to buy a path to U.S. citizenship," Trump said.
60% : Trump wants the United States to start building more large ocean-going vessels.
60% : Trump also highlighted his moves to open up areas in the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for drilling.
60% : Some Democrats are quietly chatting with each other as Trump delivers his remarks.
59% : Multibillionaire Elon Musk stood at Trump's invocation of his Department of Government Efficiency.
59% : There was a fear among allies, Biden said, that Trump could return.
57% : Trump has begun his joint congressional address to "USA! USA!"
56% : Trump gave a shoutout to Marco Rubio, his secretary of state, as the president detailed his plans to "reclaim" the Panama Canal.
55% : She was in the audience Tuesday as Trump gave his address.
54% : Since his first term in office, Trump has expressed interest in acquiring Greenland, which is a semiautonomous territory of Denmark, a longtime U.S. ally and a founding member of NATO.
54% : But at the same time, Democrats pointed to Elon Musk, who is heading up the Department of Government Efficiency.
53% : "We've had serious discussions with Russia and have received strong signals that they are ready for peace," Trump said.
53% : " Trump started his address by taking a line from his predecessor in the White House, Joe Biden.
52% : at Trump before police escorted him from the chamber.
50% : "Our goal is to get toxins out of our environment, poisons out of our food supply and keep our children healthy and strong," Trump said.
50% : Trump said the U.S. supports Greenland's right to determine its own future but would "welcome" the country into the United States for national security -- and to make them rich, he claims.
49% : " Trump is banking on the idea that taxing imports is the road to riches for the United States.
49% : At least 24 states have already passed similar laws and a federal version sputtered this week in the U.S. Senate.
48% : Speaking of Jocelyn's love of animals, Trump said he decided to rename the wildlife refuge near her Houston home for her.
46% : "The presidential election of Nov. 5 was a mandate like has not been seen in many decades," Trump said as he began his speech.
46% : Trump said farmers need to "bear with me again" as he imposes tariffs.
46% : Trump said: "A major focus of our fight to defeat inflation is rapidly reducing the cost of energy. ...
45% : However, GOP lawmakers rose in a standing ovation when Trump told them that Ukraine was showing it was ready to negotiate a peace deal.
45% : Most economists say Trump's tariffs would hurt the country, as they're tax increases that could raise the costs of goods in ways that could also harm economic growth.
45% : " Laying out more details on how he plans to stimulate the farming economy, Trump argued that increasing U.S. tariffs on agriculture products from abroad would protect domestic producers at home while acknowledging, "It may be a little bit of an adjustment period.
45% : It lists 3.6 million people from ages 110 to 119." The databases may list those people, but that does not mean they are getting paid benefits, as Trump implied.
43% : " Trump announced DJ would be sworn in by his new Secret Service director as a member of the force.
43% : Trump taunted Democrats for opposing his tax cut plans, which could cost anywhere from $5 trillion to $11 trillion over 10 years, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a fiscal watchdog.
43% : Trump promised that come April 2, reciprocal tariffs will be imposed for most of the country's trading partners.
43% : This means that some entries with missing or incomplete birthdates will default to a reference point of more than 150 years ago. Republicans jumped to their feet in applause as Trump told them "the days of unelected bureaucrats are over."
42% : One Republican shouted, "MAHA baby!" Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, first shouted "January 6th" as Trump recounted his plans for combatting crime throughout the country.
40% : "I am announcing tonight that we will create a new office of shipbuilding in the White House and offer special tax incentives to bring this industry home to America," he said.
40% : When the Yale University Budget Lab looked at the tariffs that Trump imposed Tuesday on Canada, Mexico and China, it found that inflation would increase a full percentage point, growth would fall by half a percentage point and the average household would lose about $1,600 in disposable income.
39% : Trump talked about the price of eggs and other key staples at grocery stores, where prices have remained stubbornly high due to inflation.
38% : Trump suggests that the impact on inflation would be minimal.
38% : "From now on, schools will kick the men off the girls team or they will lose all federal funding," Trump said during his speech.
38% : Trump said on his Truth Social platform that there were "8,326 apprehensions of illegals by Border Patrol at the U.S. - Mexico Border" in February.
38% : They were seated and mostly faced forward as Trump entered.
37% : " It was the only line from Trump's speech that drew more applause from Democrats than Republicans, yet Democrats applauded as Trump acknowledged that the U.S. has sent billions of dollars in military aid for Ukraine.
35% : Nungaray's mother campaigned for Trump.
35% : Green shouted, "You have no mandate to cut Medicaid!"
35% : "It's very sad, and it just shouldn't be this way," Trump said.
34% : Trump said his administration has rushed to ban diversity and inclusion programs in the federal government and dismiss workers charged with advancing such efforts.
33% : They would have to pay taxes in the U.S., Trump said.
32% : Trump's order actually states that there are only two immutable sexes, and it was one of a series Trump has signed that target the rights of transgender people.
31% : Democrats then went largely silent as Trump discussed his health policies.
31% : Trump pardoned around 1,500 rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, in a bid to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
31% : Trump said: "Believe it or not, government databases list 4.7 million Social Security members from people aged 100 to 109 years old.
30% : Trump recited a letter he received earlier Tuesday from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, saying that the wartime president wants to come back to the table after an explosive Oval Office meeting last week broke down negotiations for a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.
30% : Trump signed an executive order renaming a wildlife refuge for a young girl who prosecutors say was killed by two Venezuelan men in the country illegally.
30% : At least a dozen Democrats joined in the repeated chant as Trump discussed the need to crack down on violent criminals.
27% : Republicans were boisterous as Trump stepped to the lectern in the House.
26% : Congress passed and Trump signed into law a bill bearing her name as his first piece of legislation in his second term.
25% : "Wouldn't that be beautiful?" Trump says the U.S. government is extraditing a suspect in the deadly Abbey Gate bombing in the final days of the Afghanistan withdrawal that killed 13 American servicemembers.
25% : "Beautiful towns like Aurora, Colorado, and Springfield, Ohio, buckled under the weight of the migrant occupation and corruption like no one's ever seen before," Trump said.
25% : How did that work out?" Trump is gloating about having survived, without any meaningful accountability, four different criminal prosecutions -- only one of which went to trial.
24% : " Trump has long promoted a tough-on-crime agenda and sought to paint Democratic-led cities as besieged by violence, despite statistics showing a downward trend in violent crime after a spike during the coronavirus pandemic.
24% : Trump said: "We've ended weaponized government where, as an example, a sitting president is allowed to viciously prosecute his political opponent like me.
23% : Trump has already used executive actions to roll back a series of Biden administration policies promoting transgender rights, and he has vowed to stamp out "gender ideology.
23% : More than a dozen Democrats joined Republicans in a standing ovation for a guest of Trump, a child diagnosed with cancer who Trump said aspires to become a police officer.
23% : Trump said: "$8 million to promote LGBTQI+ in the African nation of Lesotho, which nobody has ever heard of.
22% : Trump has made similar threats for weeks but said he didn't want to make the announcement on April 1 because of April Fool's Day.
22% : Democrats remained seated as Trump said it, some scowling.
21% : "Those goods that come in from other countries and companies, they're really, really in a bad position in so many different ways," Trump said.
21% : A new working group on so-called weaponization is targeting the prosecutors who investigated Trump, and senior officials dismissed a criminal case against New York's mayor because they saw him as an ally in the president's fight against illegal immigration.
20% : Harris and the Democratic Party's prodigious fundraising operation raised more than $1 billion in their campaign against Trump.
20% : " Trump praised his wife for lobbying for a bill that would make it a federal crime to post intimate imagery online, whether real or fake.
20% : at Trump as the president discussed his cuts to the federal government. Democrats increasingly groaned, shouted, "Not true!"
20% : Trump said: "Illegal border crossings last month were the lowest ever recorded.
20% : " Americans were certainly still gloomy about the post-COVID inflation spike that peaked in 2022, but Trump did not inherit a disastrous economy by any measure.
18% : "I want Congress to pass a bill permanently banning and criminalizing sex changes on children and forever ending the lie that any child is trapped in the wrong body," Trump said.
18% : Trump said: "As you know, we inherited from the last administration an economic catastrophe and an inflation nightmare.
15% : " President Trump has already begun dismantling his predecessor's climate change and renewable energy policies and declared a national energy emergency to speed up fossil fuel development.
12% : " Trump cited the funding as an example of government waste uncovered by his administration and the Department of Government Efficiency.
7% : Trump again said incorrectly -- as he has done many times before -- that his administration ended what he called the Biden administration's "insane electric vehicle mandate, saving our auto workers and companies from economic destruction."
6% : " Trump is keen to blame former President Joe Biden for inflation, even as consumer sentiment surveys by the Conference Board and the University of Michigan show people are worried about Trump's tariffs pushing up prices.

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