Trump, disruptor-in-chief, touts upheaval

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

76% : " Tariffs, Trump said, "are about making America rich again and making America great again.
68% : While declaring that lowering costs for families was his top priority, Trump devoted only a few lines to the subject.
57% : Turning to foreign policy some 80 minutes into his speech, Trump returned to the brash imperialism outlined in his inaugural address, vowing to wrest control of the Panama Canal away from the Chinese and suggesting that a looming independence vote in Greenland would ultimately result in the U.S. taking it away from Denmark.
51% : After thanking Musk, who he described as "the head of DOGE (the Dept. of Government Efficiency)," Trump drew laughs as he listed several of the aid programs he had cut: "a $3.5 million consulting contract for lavish fish; monitoring, $1.5 million for voter confidence in Liberia; $14 million for social cohesion in Mali; $59 million for illegal alien hotel rooms in New York City.
50% : But Trump framed DOGE's work as part of his economic agenda.
50% : "One way or the other we're going to get it," Trump said.
50% : Just more than 24 hours after pausing all U.S. military aid to Ukraine in an effort to pressure President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to sign an economic agreement with the U.S. and engage in peace talks with Russia, Trump read a letter Zelenskyy wrote him Tuesday expressing regret over last week's blow-up in the Oval Office and desire to achieve peace.
44% : Boasting about his early flurry of executive orders, Trump said that everything -- withdrawing the U.S. from climate treaties, the World Health Organization and the UN human rights council; slashing the federal government, freezing regulations and all foreign aid -- was an effort "to restore common sense, safety, optimism and wealth." "The people elected me to do the job, and I'm doing it," he continued, declaring it a "a time for big dreams and bold action." On a day that saw the stock markets dip following Trump's imposition of 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico -- and in the midst of a high-stakes diplomatic staredown with Ukraine that has allies anxious -- Trump promised that it was all part of a plan to enrich the country and force neighbors to crack down on the drug trade.
43% : "I appreciate that he sent this letter," Trump said, offering nothing further about whether the agreement to share profits from Ukraine's rare earth minerals was still on the table.
42% : Trump asked.
41% : " Opening his speech by recounting his victory in last November's election, Trump drew shouts and protests from the Democratic side of the aisle.
39% : Trump groused that there was "nothing I can do" to make Democrats "stand or smile or applaud" him, claiming that his victory amounted to a "mandate like has not been seen in many decades." Describing the Republicans' reconciliation bill as a package of "tax cuts for everybody," he sarcastically suggested that Democrats should vote for the proposal they have derided as a giveaway for corporations and the wealthy.
36% : " Trump last year urged Republicans to thwart a bipartisan border bill to deny former President Joe Biden a win, just months before the election.
34% : While most presidents use such addresses to tout new programs, unveil ambitious initiatives or whip legislation, Trump offered a laundry list of all that he had obliterated -- pacts with foreign governments, regulations, diversity initiatives.
32% : "I'm sure you're going to vote for those tax cuts because otherwise I don't think the people will ever vote you into office," Trump said.
32% : "By slashing all of the fraud, waste and theft we can find, we will defeat inflation, bring down mortgage rates, lower car payments and grocery prices, protect our seniors, and put more money in the pockets of American families," Trump said.
28% : Trump devoted more time to defending his and Elon Musk's chainsaw-styled slasher approach to reducing the size of the federal bureaucracy.
27% : Trashing the man who defeated him in 2020 as "the worst president in American history," Trump blamed his predecessor for illegal immigration, stubborn inflation and, specifically, the high price of eggs, and said his first month in office is the best ever.
26% : In a nod to the political risk of those policies, Trump spoke directly to American farmers, who required a $29 billion bailout by Trump following tariffs in his first term.
25% : " And he mischaracterized "shocking levels of incompetence and probable fraud in the Social Security program," suggesting that payments were being made to thousands of deceased individuals, a debunked claim that Trump has made repeatedly.
22% : And we quickly achieved the lowest numbers of illegal border crossers ever recorded," Trump said.
20% : One lawmaker, Rep. Al Green, (D-Tex.), was removed from the chamber after continuing to shout back at the president in protest of the Republican plan to cut Medicaid.
12% : Trump demanded that those countries "do much more" to tackle the flow of illegal drugs to America, which he has used as his rationale for the tariffs -- despite almost no fentanyl having entered the U.S. from Canada.

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