Trump defends his ‘unrelenting’ policies in address to Congress: ‘We’re just getting started’
The US president celebrated his U-turn on Ukraine, his tariffs war and his crusade against immigrants, urging lawmakers for more funds to finance a mass deportation
Were it not for the solemn setting of Washington’s Capitol Hill, Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday could have passed for a campaign rally. The president resorted to his usual lies and exaggerations to launch a triumphalist speech six weeks after his return to the White House. Trump proclaimed, as he did on Inauguration Day, the beginning of a “golden age” in the United States. He asked Congress for a tax cut and funding for deportations and defended Elon Musk’s cuts, the trade war he launched this week, his crusade against irregular immigration, and the U.S. policy shift on Ukraine. About the latter, he assured Congress that he had received in the form of a letter from Volodymyr Zelenskiy the same message the Ukrainian president tweeted hours before, in which he insisted in his willingness to negotiate for an end to the war with Russia. Trump also claimed the Panama Canal and said that he will get Greenland.
