A defiant Donald Trump used the first address to Congress of his second term in the White House to announce that he was pressing on with his controversial agenda of tariffs and dismantling the machinery of the federal government in a speech full of partisan red meat that was more like one of his signature political rallies than remarks usually delivered from the Capitol by previous presidents.
Trump, who entered the House chamber to chants of “USA” from the Republican majorities in the assembled House and Senate, opened his speech by noting the relatively short interval that has passed since he was sworn in under the Capitol rotunda and claiming to have “accomplished more in 43 days than most administrations accomplished in four years or eight years.”
