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Trump claims to start the term “quickly and relentlessly” in the speech on the congress

Washington – President Donald Trump was confronted before the Democrats on Tuesday when he explained that “America was back”, and gave a speech to the congress in which he praised his efforts to re -form the government and ridiculed his opponents with regard to his political and legal triumphs.

In the longest speech by the President of the Congress in History, Trump seemed to cool the tensions with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy from Ukraine last week and read a gratitude message that Zelenskyy had previously published on social media a day. Trump said he estimated the message and he also received “strong signals” from Russia that they were enthusiastic about peace with Ukraine.

“Wouldn't that be nice? Wouldn't that be nice? “Said Trump.

The Democrats hardly applauded during Trump's visit to the chamber, while the Republicans cheered enthusiastically. From the first moments of the speech, as Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, repeatedly screamed “You have no mandate” and refused to sit down, the deep divisions in the congress and in the country were exhibited.

“The people who are sitting here will not clap, will not stand and will certainly not cheer on these astronomical achievements,” said Trump and referred to Democrats in the chamber. “You won't do it, no matter what happens.”

Spokesman Mike Johnson Green from the chamber ordered in a very unusual step. In recent years there have been other outbreaks in the speeches of the President, including the Republican representatives Marjorie Taylor Green from Georgia during the bids administration and Joe Wilson from South Carolina during the Obama government. Both stayed in the chamber after they had interrupted the president.

Just a few days after he threatened to give up a European ally in the war and start a trade war in which the global economies rattled, Trump offered no new political proposals and repeatedly disparaged the former president Joe Biden and mocked the Democrats in the audience because she was unable to stand in his agenda.

“Six weeks ago I stood under the dome of this Capitol and proclaimed the beginning of the golden age of America,” said Trump and seemed to change his prepared comments repeatedly. “From that moment on, it was nothing more than quick and relentless action to initiate the largest and most successful era in the history of our country.”

The president was not in foreign policy, although he again expressed his concern about Chinese control over the Panama Canal and his desire to take over Greenland. He announced that the United States had arrested a terrorist who organized the bomb attack on the abbey while withdrawing troops from Afghanistan.

Trump spoke to tell the stories of the Americans, which he invited to observe his address in the gallery, including the victims of violent immigrants and a cancer boy who dreamed of becoming a police officer. Trump announced that the 13-year-old boy became a secret service day.

In the meantime, he seemed to be obsessed with his political rivals. At some point he worried the Democrat and said that the judicial system in the country was taken over by “radical left lunatics”. In response, progressive members of the Panels party, on which “false” and “This is a lie”.

A number of Democrats organized a small protest, got up and turned Trump up with T-shirts that “resist” on the back. Instead of risking to be removed from the Sergeant-at arms, the group went quietly from the house floor.

Trump accused Democrats of ignoring the “revolution of common sense” that he and his government could implement. He spoke to his opponents in the audience with contempt, concluded about his election victory, mocked for his ability to escape law enforcement, and described bidges as the worst president in American history.

At some point the president compared the treatment he received on the Internet with the victims of Revenge porn and said: “Nobody is treated worse than me online.”

Trump mistakenly claimed that he had inherited an “economic disaster” from Biden. In fact, the United States had the strongest economy in the world when Trump took over, but it has shown signs of a burden from federal financing cuts and tariffs in the past few weeks.

The president focused on what he claimed, fraud in the Germans' bureaucracy, which was discovered by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency. For a few minutes, Trump listed foreign help and diversity programs that his government had removed and mocked it as unnecessary.

“Eight million to promote LGBTQ+ in the African nation Lesotho, of which nobody ever heard,” said the president.

The participants take signs to themselves, while on Tuesday, March 4, 2025, during the speech by President Donald Trump, they protest a joint congress meeting in the Capitol in Washington. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)

The Republicans of the Republicans advised their members to no longer keep their members in a stream of large -scale protests against some of the budget cuts to oversee the musk in the attitude of personal town halls. Nevertheless, a number of republican legislators jumped up and cheered when the president referred to Musk, who was sitting in the gallery.

As in previous speeches, Trump repeated false and exaggerated claims throughout the speech and led to Democrats reactions in the chamber.

“This is not true,” said the former spokesman for the House spokesman Nancy Pelosi quietly and shook his head when Trump ticked through exposed claims about the impossible age of people who collect social security. In contrast, the Republicans broke through and one screamed “Joe Biden” when Trump claimed that someone in social security was older than 300.

Elon Musk on his seat before President Donald Trump's speech to a joint congress meeting in Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, March 4, 2025, (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)

Senator Elissa Slotkin from Michigan provided the democratic refutation from the city of Wyandotte, a place where she and Trump won.

Slotkin opened with the statement that “America wants change”, but described two options, a “responsible path” and a “ruthless” way. She framed Trump's approach as a ruthless.

She said that he had approved his billionaire friends an “unprecedented giveaway” and risked the country into a recession.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.