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This is the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. However there is no parade to be equivalent to the carnival on Tuesday on Tuesday night of Congress night.
As the US president declares his writer for not only the greatest return we see but may see, the remnants of snops are about to hear the truth of their laptops. Which purpose is to point out to have millions of dead centers do not receive Social Security security checks, or that America spends $ 350bn in Ukraine?
It is equally worthless to compare Trump’s address to any of his or her first, including what he gives his first term. It’s in one category in one. In addition to the longest of a mile in modern history, Trump’s speech is a fever dream of greater promises. His vow to cover America with a “Golden Dome” marked by “Iron Dome” will use each gold bar at Fort Knox. A few minutes later, Trump promised to balance the federal budget. Is his vow to take Greenland “one way or another” a threat or fantasy? Ditto for Panama Canal.
Presidents use at least to make a pretense that is trying to find the common ground. Trump’s talk comes in opposite direction – Joe Biden is the worst president ever; Trump was saved from the bullet of God to make America great again; All other countries, even friend or enemy, endless America’s destruction; Robert F Kennedy Jr, the new secretary of the Health Health and Human Services and Vacine-Denier, resolved the autism epidemic; There is no president in US history achieved more than Trump in his first 43 days. And so on. He didn’t ask Bipartitanship.
Two more debris stands. The first is that Trump is avoiding the list of legislation listing he wants to pass. Presidents typically check a list of priority fees, especially in their first address. Although Trump was talking to Congress, the first branch of America government was never as relevant. The biggest trump’s hat in the gallery is Elon Musk, who is busy using the Hill’s Hill’s Hill’s Hill’s Powers.
The second striking part is the bifurcation of the Chamber. On one side, the Republicans stand up and almost continuously shout. On the other hand, the Democrats sat firmly facing and mostly silent, with rare rounds of boos. Many filtered before Trump stopped talking. The longest section of speech is devoted to the bane of illegal immigrants. If offers any pointers, Trump’s running campaign seems to be specified in progress soon.
Anyone seeking the philosophy of glue together in this language can take a long time. It’s hard to make conventional meaning what Trump says. The elevator version is that America has entered a new golden age because Trump is returned to office. The content is not libertarian or traditional conservative, or even conventional nationalist. This is a trumpian personalism.
Thus, it is a more recall as a scene than the content of his words. In fact, if historians remember March 4 2025, his language is not nearly rated in a footnote. In the entire Atlantic, the coming German chancellor Merz, on Tuesday expressed his purpose in scraping the sacred debt in the country to armar Germany. That, instead of gold domes or planting stars and stripes on Mars, an announcement taken seriously.
Edward.luce@ft.com