Quotes: President Trump Addresses a Joint Session of Congress - 3/4/25
>>22704385
President Trump: Tariffs are not just about protecting American jobs, they're about protecting the soul of our country. Tariffs are about Making America Rich Again, and Making America Great Again, and it's happening, and it will happen rather quickly. They'll be a little disturbance, but we're okay with that. It won't be much.
>>22704437
President Trump: The media and our friends in the democrat party kept saying we needed new legislation. We must have legislation to secure the border. But it turned out that all we really needed was a new president. Joe Biden didn't just open our borders, he flew illegal aliens over them, to overwhelm our schools, hospitals, and communities throughout the country.
>>22704513
President Trump: The territory to the immediate south of our border is now dominated entirely by criminal cartels that murder, rape, torture, and exercise total control; they have total control over a whole nation, posing a grave threat to our national security. The cartels are waging war on America, and it's time for America to wage war on the cartels.
>>22704562
President Trump: As we reclaim our sovereignty, we must also bring back law and order to our cities and towns. In recent years, our justice system has been turned upside-down by radical-left lunatics. Many jurisdictions virtually ceased enforcing the law against dangerous repeat offenders, while weaponizing law enforcement against political opponents like me.
>>22704667
President Trump: Since 1975, rates of child cancer have increased by more than forty percent. Reversing this trend is one of the top priorities for our new presidential commission to Make America Healthy Again, chaired by our new Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Our goal is to get toxins out of our environment, poisons out of our food supply, and keep our children healthy and strong.
>>22704707
President Trump: And now I want congress to pass a bill permanently banning and criminalizing sex changes on children, and forever ending the lie that any child is trapped in the wrong body. This is a big lie. And our message to every child in America, is that you are perfect exactly the way God made you.
>>22704723
President Trump: You’re perfect exactly the way God made you.
>>22704764
President Trump: As commander in chief, my focus is on building the most powerful military of the future. As a first step, I'm asking congress to fund a state-of-the-art, Golden Dome Missile Defense Shield to protect our homeland, all made in the USA.
>>22704788
President Trump: To boost our defense industrial base, we are also going to resurrect the American ship building industry, including commercial shipbuilding, and military ship building. And for that purpose, I am announcing tonight that we will create a new Office Of Ship Building in the White House, and offer special tax incentives to bring this industry home to America where it belongs.
>>22704808
President Trump: To further enhance our national security, my administration will be reclaiming the Panama Canal, and we've already starting doing it. Just today, a large American company announced they are buying both ports around the Panama Canal, and lots of other things having to do with the Panama Canal, and a couple other of other canals.
>>22704887
President Trump: It's time to stop this madness [Russia/Ukraine]. It's time to halt the killing. It's time to end this senseless war. If you want to end wars, you have to talk to both sides.
>>22704954
President Trump: From the patriots of Lexington and Concord, to the heroes of Gettysburg and Normandy. From the warriors who crossed the Delaware, to the trailblazers who climbed the Rockies, and from the legends who soared at Kitty Hawk, to the astronauts who touched the moon, Americans have always been the people who defied all odds, transcended all dangers, made the most extraordinary sacrifices, and took whatever it took to defend our children our country, and our freedom.
>>22704999
President Trump: With God's help over the next four years, we are going to lead this nation even higher, and we are going to forge the freest, most advanced, most dynamic, and most dominant civilization ever to exist on the face of this Earth. We are going to create the highest quality of life, build the safest, and wealthiest, and healthiest, and most vital communities anywhere in the world. We are going to conquer the vast frontiers of science, and we are going to lead humanity into space, and plant the American Flag on the planet Mars, and ever far beyond.