“We are just beginning”. Tuesday evening, in front of exalted Republicans and stunned democrats, Donald Trump delivered a speech of an hour and 40 minutes, the longest of an American president in front of the congress. For his first big speaking since his return to the White House, Donald Trump addressed several subjects, including customs duties, the war in Ukraine or even Greenland.
The Republican President began in “an optimistic tone, sometimes full of confidence and arrogance”, estimates The Washington Postwhile Donald Trump said that “America has regained its momentum” and that the “American dream smashes, stronger and better than ever”. “Donald Trump focused on the economy in a context of high inflation”, notes Another American media, CNN. “Immigration has also been at the heart of the debates, Donald Trump having emphasized crimes committed by undocumented immigrants and demanded a strengthening of border security.” “A combative Donald Trump echoes his campaign themes,” notes the famous American daily life The New York Times,, As spotted International mail.
“Donald Trump spoke Tuesday evening to a nation divided into a speech full of acrimony […] sketching a message of provocative optimism for those who support it and dark despair for those who do not support it, “summarizes the Washington Post.
A full speech “of lies and demagoguery”
For CNN, “his speech was not distinguished from his campaign meetings, which were filled with fiery rhetoric, lies and demagoguery”. “The political chasm of modern America has never seemed so dark. The speech of President Donald Trump at the Congress on Tuesday evening adopted the customs of a familiar annual political celebration. But he failed to fill the gap of misunderstanding and contempt that divides the country into two,” said the media. For the journalist of the channel Jeff Zeleny“it was not a unifying discourse and it was not his goal”. Donald Trump “lounges in the sparkle of a republican party around him and the question is now whether they will be able to implement his program,” notes him.
The American president listed expenditure according to him unnecessary or even fraudulent, saying, without it being possible to verify it, that a 360 -year -old person was, for example, recorded as a beneficiary of social assistance. “We are going to discover where this money is going, and it will not be pretty to see,” he said.
An “obsession with false affirmation”
The site Politico mentions this “obsession with President Donald Trump for the false assertion that dozens of millions of deceased people receive social security checks” which was the subject of part of his speech on Tuesday. “It is not wrong to say that industrial payments have been made in the past, especially to deceased people,” said politico. “But Donald Trump and Elon Musk both advanced exaggerated figures and distorted social security data for weeks, while praising Doge’s efforts to reduce waste, fraud and abuse within the federal government.” THE Washington Post is on the same wavelength: “Donald Trump falsely declared that the DOGE has discovered ‘hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud’, he claimed to have reduced the fraud of $ 9 billion so far, and even this figure is doubtful,” said the famous American daily.
In an editorial, the Financial Times (FT) Also attacked the intervention of the tenant of the White House, whose speech is worthy of a “fabulist” according to the British daily. “It was Gras Tuesday in New Orleans. However, no parade could match Donald Trump’s speech at the Congress on Tuesday evening,” quipped this media. “In addition to being the longest in modern history, Donald Trump’s speech was a feverish dream of extravagant promises.” “Anyone looking for the philosophical cement that maintains the cohesion of this speech has failed to find a conventional meaning that Donald Trump said,” added The FT. “The content was neither libertarian, nor traditionally conservative, nor even conventionally nationalist. It was pure personalism Trumpian.”
For CNN, “as usual, a large part of Donald Trump’s words were false”. “He did not, as he said, inherited from an economic disaster by Joe Biden. His assertion that foreign countries had emptied their asylums in America was false. And he considerably exaggerated the real amount of the billions of dollars that the Biden administration gave to Ukraine,” CNN said.
Joe Biden in the viewfinder of Donald Trump
In fact, Politico notes that Donald Trump “could not help talking about Joe Biden”. The Republican President “referred to his Democratic predecessor at least 16 times in one way or another”, by calling it “worse president” and “blaming him for the prize of eggs”. According to The American conservative media Fox Newsthe consumer price index shows that consumer prices have increased by around 20 % under the administration of Joe Biden, and egg prices increased by almost 37 % over the past year.
CNN underlines that Donald Trump was also elected to set the outbreak of food and real estate prices, after Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had only few answers on one of the main problems in last year’s election. ” However, after his Tuesday evening speech, “nothing proved that Donald Trump had a plan to solve these problems”.
According to the Washington PostDuring his speech, Donald Trump did not show “many attempts at unity or reconciliation. CNN evokes” a controversial speech which aroused protests from the Democratic legislators “. At least those who were present, as, as the Washington Postif “many democrats have attended the speech, several have chosen to boycott it”.
The expulsion of Senator Al Green was one of the highlights of the evening behind the scenes. The Democratic MP got up and Hue Donald Trump, “waving his cane and ignoring the calls asking him to sit,” said CNN. He was then “ejected under the hoots and howls of the Republican benches”. It was “a ugly and anger scene, which contributed a lot to personify the country’s divisions”, judges CNN. Who notes that the “lonely protest” of certain democrats elected to Al Green “above all served to highlight the soft and uncoordinated resistance of the party to a president claiming an almost unlimited power”.