Trump Tells Congress America Is ‘Ready to Lead’

Still, it takes a nasty case of recency bias for a political analyst to toss aside everything Trump has said and and done in his career to date and declare him “presidential” on the basis of a single impressive speech.

Martin, however, said he was happy that the President didn’t openly disparage anyone but thought it was “ridiculous” that he was talking about immigration being part of an increase in crime rates around the U.S. He also thought the President would have a tough time getting much of his agenda through Congress. For instance, we were told his inaugural address would focus on unity.

The longest ovation came when Mr Trump introduced the widow of US Navy Seal William Ryan Owens, who was killed in a raid in Yemen last month.

Another example: Fiat-Chrysler announced in January that it would invest $1 billion in expanding plants in MI and OH, a move that is expected to create 2,000 jobs.

Collins – who has appeared on network and cable television dozens of times to defend Trump in the previous year – then tweeted: “Glad @POTUS is calling on us to repeal and replace the failure that #Obamacare is”.

Pharma and biotech investors will be looking for clarity on whether or not the president will “let the government intervene directly in drug prices to reduce health-care costs”, a point on which 45 has given “conflicting signals” so far.

Trump has talked about many different issues, but it is not clear what he wants Congress to address first, West noted. “This is a president who is serious about tackling our biggest challenges and improving people’s lives”.

As Will Wilkinson, the policy analyst and blogger, pointed out during the speech, “The point of Trump’s lies is to create a widespread sense that an open, pluralistic, multicultural society is risky”.

POLITICO: “As president, Trump sits at the top of a massive bureaucracy not of his own making, a complex hierarchy created to help him handle the most information-intensive, crisis-driven job in the world. You’ve been in office for one month”. She said Trump’s speech included nothing new.

“Buy American, right?” Perez asked. “But we can only get there together”, Trump said near the end of his speech. The speech was his best ever as a president. “He delivered a message of optimism”. Jeff Flake said: “I wouldn’t have expected that”, adding that they weren’t expecting too many specific details in such a speech.

There have been protests in the streets on these and other issues, such as Trump and the Republican Congress’ drive to repeal the Affordable Care Act. “They don’t want to be the victims of his tweets”, Durbin said.

But Rep. Brian Higgins, D-Buffalo, wasn’t standing up and cheering. Democrats were quick to criticise Trump’s speech, particularly on climate change, national security and education while many Republicans were full of praise.

“Republicans will have reasons to be hopeful that he’ll be a less vicious figure than he has been but I don’t think Democrats will believe this is a kinder and gentler Donald Trump”, he said.

“Once again Trump has left large spaces open for China to, in a sense, exploit in diplomatic terms”, he said.

And the Washington Post: “President Trump is preparing a budget that would fulfill some of his top campaign promises by boosting military spending while cutting domestic programs”. Many of his first acts have proved divisive, especially executive orders to enhance immigration enforcement and ban USA entry to travelers from seven predominantly Muslim nations, as well as a decision to revoke an Obama-era directive meant to protect transgender children from bullying at schools.

Speaking before Congress, Trump quoted Matt Bevin, the Republican governor of Kentucky, as saying that “Obamacare is failing in his state”.