‘Drain the swamp!’ Donald Trump brings back popular catchphrase during Congress speech

“When we ship products out of America, many other countries make us pay very high tariffs and taxes”, Trump told lawmakers in his first address to a joint session of Congress. They avoided the aisle seats and few shook the president’s hand.

As the president spoke, Republicans jumped up and applauded.

Many Democratic women wore white as they listened to the president’s speech, in honour of women’s suffrage.

Writing in Britain’s conservative Telegraph newspaper, Rob Crilly declared that Trump had “found his presidential voice and manages the unthinkable – a conventional speech”.

Democrat Hillary Clinton wore all-white pantsuits during big moments in her presidential campaign.

“Crumbling infrastructure will be replaced with new roads, bridges, tunnels, airports and railways gleaming across our lovely land”, Trump said during a joint address to Congress. The Democratic Women’s Working Group, led by chair Rep. Lois Frankel of Florida, announced in a statement that its matchy-matchy plans were “a reminder to continue the ongoing fight to attain equal rights for all women”.

He pledged to “repeal and replace Obamacare with reforms that expand choice, increase access, lower costs, and at the same time, provide better Healthcare”, without any detail on how this will be achieved.

According to the joint poll by the CNN broadcaster and Opinion Research Corporation, nearly two-thirds of the viewers praised the president’s priorities for the country, while about seven in 10 viewers said that the speech made them feel more optimistic about the future of the country.

Never miss a story again – sign up to our Telegram channel and we’ll keep you up to speed! DACA gives protection from deportation and work-permit eligibility to so-called “DREAMers” who live in the US without legal documentation after having been brought to the country as children. California lawmakers on Monday demanded information from the Trump administration on arrests and raids in the most populous US state, citing reports that immigration agents had gone to churches, schools and courthouses to find illegal immigrants.

If the American people are to have great schools, safe neighborhoods, good jobs, and see a reduction in poverty, as Trump has promised, then the president must act on a legislative agenda that is built on bipartisanship, but also predicated on a willingness to compromise in order to make new reforms happen. Beshear says they’re friends and neighbours who now face “life and death” decisions because of the GOP effort to kill that law.

Meanwhile, US television personality Rosie O’Donnell – who has long feuded with Mr Trump – hosted a rally against him outside the White House.

Donald Trump has issued a broad call for overhauling the nation’s health care and boosting military spending, swapping his trademark pugnaciousness and personal insults for a more restrained tone as he addressed Congress for the first time.

America’s own National Women’s Party similarly chose white, purple and gold as its colours in 1913.

“When it comes to the hard work of government, namely passing legislation in the days and months ahead, more questions about details than answers remain”, Mark Hamrick, Bankrate.com’s senior economic analyst, wrote after Trump’s speech was over.

In his first major speech as United States president, he said a “new surge of optimism is placing impossible dreams firmly within our grasp”, opening a “new chapter of American greatness”.