Donald Trump did not talk about the economy at all, even though it is the biggest problem in the eyes of the people, writes Ilmari Reunamäki, a US correspondent.
Ilmari Reunamäki Under-Correspondent
Washington US president From Donald Trump After the radical outdoor openings of recent weeks, he was expected to speech, especially on foreign policy, when he went to talk to congress members for the first time.
Instead, Trump made a safe and boring cultural warfare speech in which he recycled old hits. He did nothing about foreign policy during the first hour, nor after briefly.
The only important news about the speech is this: Trump did not bark at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Trump talked about Zelensky in a conciliating tone, as if last week’s meeting had never happened.
Trump said he received a letter from Zelensky yesterday, which he read aloud to the public. The text was the same that Zelenskyi published by himself In the past in social media.
Trump said he had appreciated Zelensky’s gesture and hinted between the lines that Zelenskyi could now fly over the Atlantic to a white house and try if the press conference was better this time.
The foreign policy part of the speech almost remained. Trump repeatedly wanted to still take over the Panama Canal and Greenland.
Trump also grinned that no one had ever heard of a state called Lesotho, where the recently down -down country’s Development Co -operation Agency (USAID) had distributed money.
At the end of the Trump honeymoon His support has begun to decline. Currently An equal proportion of the people are worth and opposed to him.
Therefore, Trump was expected to have concrete promises, especially to improve the state of the economy.
In queries Americans have repeatedly called inflation’s most important problem, and the people think Trump has focused too much on other things in the early weeks of his season.
Trump again made it clear that his decision to all financial problems is duties.
“Customs causes a little disturbance, but it is suitable for us,” Trump assured.
The Republicans patted Trump regularly throughout the speech to the end, but for customs speeches, the applause was subdued. Many congressmen seem to hope that Trump’s customs trials will end well in advance of next year’s mid -year elections.
Trump also promised to remove taxation and overtime taxation, but in reality, the Republican budget does not have these points.
Trump put food high prices for its predecessor Joe Biden To the spike, but this tactic hardly does not work anymore when the summer comes.
Congress Republicans cheered loud loud for Trump’s favorite topics. Most of the almost two -hour speech was spent on a familiar list of cultural war themes.
Woke has to be defeated, dei programs are closed, there are only two sexes, transgender people are not allowed to compete in women’s series, English is the official language of the country and the Gulf of Mexico is the Gulf of America, Trump lists.
These issues are important for Trump’s core supporters, but low -value for mobile voters.
However, Trump no longer has to campaign for his own elections, and he is not interested in the fate of individual Republican representatives in Congress.
Trump last gave the president’s speech Congress in February 2020.
Trump was at the time in the post because he was suspected to have pressured Zelensky to look for loop bid Hunter transactions in Ukraine. Korona hit the world properly in a few weeks.
The President of the House of Representatives was at the time of the Democrats Nancy PelosiTrump’s first season’s arch enemy. Trump and Pelosi didn’t handle at the time, and finally tore Trump’s speech.
Now, during Trump’s speech, the camera was looking for a democratic new face that could become a counter -force like Pelos, but in most cases, the camera ended up only to photograph the faceless group of the Democrats.
In the end, Pelosi, 84, was selected for the pictures now, because the Democratic Director of the House of Representatives Hakeem Jeffries has not been able to fill his boots.
Trump’s support is down, but the Democrats do not yet have a name that would rise to talk to Trump disappointed.