President Donald Trump told American Congress to pass a law recognising only male and female genders and announced reforms to make America greater.
Our message to every child in America is that you are perfect exactly the way God made you,” Donald Trump says, urging Congress to pass a bill banning child sex changes.
“Because we’re getting wokeness out of our schools… wokeness is trouble, wokeness is bad, wokeness is gone. And we feel so much better for it, don’t we?”
He read our a letter he received from Volodymyr Zelensky in which the Ukrainian signalled he was ready to sign a rare earth minerals deal.
Mr Trump said: “I appreciate that he sent this letter, just got it a little while ago.”
Mr Zelensky told the US president he wants peace and is ready to come to the negotiating table, according to Mr Trump.
According to the US president, the letter said: “We really do value how much America has done to help Ukraine maintain its sovereignty and independence.
Regarding the agreement on minerals and security, Ukraine is ready to sign it at any time that is convenient for you.”
Mr Trump said he has spoken to Russian officials who have also said they want peace.
“Simultaneously, we’ve had serious discussions with Russia and have received strong signals that they are ready for peace… Wouldn’t that be beautiful? It’s time to stop this madness,” he added.
The US President is sending warmer signals to Ukraine after suspending military aid to Kyiv yesterday and criticising Mr Zelensky as ungrateful for US support following their disastrous Oval Office meeting last week.
However, he stopped short of saying he would resume arms sales or agree to the minerals deal.
Donald Trump pays tribute to the “workers who poured their sweat into the skylines of our cities” and “warriors who shed their blood on fields of battle”.
“Now it is our time to take up the righteous cause of American liberty, and it is our turn to take America’s destiny into our own hands and begin the most thrilling days in the history of our country,” he says.
Mr Trump declares the US will “plant the American flag on the planet Mars” – an ambition of Elon Musk – “and far beyond”.
The US President, echoing his chant from assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, declares: “We will fight, fight, fight for the country our citizens believe”.
Donald Trump says that he was “saved by God to make America great again” during an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania last year.
Trump says he is asking Congress to pass a law mandating a death penalty for anyone who murders a police officer.
The US President has already signed an executive order to this effect.
He adds that he wants a new crime bill “getting tough on repeat offenders” while “enhancing protections for America’s police officers so they can do their jobs without fear of their lives being totally destroyed”.
It’s time for America to wage war on the cartels,” Donald Trump says, to resounding applause in the Chamber.
“Five nights ago Mexican authorities, because of our tariff policies… handed over to us 29 of the biggest cartel leaders in their country. That has never happened before,” he continues.
“But we need Mexico and Canada to do much more than they’ve done. They have to stop the fentanyl and drugs pouring into the USA.”
Mr Trump says he has sent Congress a “detailed funding request” to “complete the largest deportation operation in American history”.
He urges Mike Johnson and John Thune, the Republican leaders in the House and Senate, to “send me this funding without delay… I’ll sign it so fast you won’t even believe it.”
Donald Trump says tariffs will bring “a little disturbance but we’re ok with that”, insisting: “It won’t be much”.
The US President says tariffs are “about protecting the soul of our country… making America rich again and making America great again”.
Donald Trump claims Canada and Mexico has “allowed fentanyl to come into our country at levels never seen before”.
He claims that the US has paid subsidies worth “hundreds of billions of dollars” to both countries, and says it “will not be doing that any longer”.
The US President imposed 25 per cent tariffs on Canada and Mexico shortly after midnight on Tuesday.
The nation founded by pioneers and risk takers [is] now drowned under millions and millions of pages of regulations,” Donald Trump says, claiming he is “draining the swamping” by slashing the federal bureaucracy.
“The days of ruling by unelected bureaucrats are over,” the US President declares.
He exhorts Congress, including Democrats, to “pass tax cuts for everybody”.
“I’m sure you’re going to vote for those tax cuts, because otherwise, I don’t believe that people will ever vote you into office,” he says, addressing Democrats.
Mr Trump then turns to Republicans. “This group is going to be voting for tax cuts,” he says, to whoops and cheers.
The US President repeats a campaign pledge to remove taxes from tips, overtime and Social Security benefits
Michigan senator Elissa Slotkin, delivering the Democratic rebuttal to Donald Trump’s speech, said Trump had not laid out a credible plan to tackle the rise in grocery and home prices.
Slotkin said the state of the country’s democracy is “worth fighting for”. “It’s easy to be exhausted, but America needs you now more than ever,” she said.
“We’ve gone through periods of political instability before,” she said. “Ultimately, we’ve chosen to keep changing this country for the better
