Surprisingly cogent, direct, moving, and riveting. I could not take my attention away. m/r
- President Trump addressed both houses of Congress in a Joint Session just over a month into his presidency
- New U.S. leader channeled Kennedy to speak of the 'courage to share the dreams that fill our hearts'
- But bluntly political speech also tells the House and the Senate to take action on his agenda
- He
told them to 'increase funding for our veterans,' pass 'historic tax
reform', 'repeal and replace Obamacare,' and 'help ensure new parents
have paid family leave'
- Most
electrifying moment of address lasting slightly over one hour was when
he paid tribute to William 'Ryan' Owens, SEAL killed on raid in Yemen
last month
- The SEAL's widow Carryn
Owens sat beside Ivanka Trump and cried as the divided Congress united
for the longest ovation of the evening
- Trump
refused to back down on immigration saying: 'what would you say to the
American family that loses their jobs, their income, or their loved
one?'
- Opening sentences of speech
robustly condemned anti-Semitic attacks and allegedly racially motivated
Kansas City shooting of two Indian men
- Democratic women wore white in reference to fight for suffrage and made thumbs down gestures to speech
Published:
20:40 EST, 28 February 2017| 1 March 2017
President
Donald Trump
took his first mission-critical trip down Pennsylvania Avenue on
Tuesday to address a Joint Session of Congress, telling his political
opponents that 'the time for small thinking is over, the time for
trivial fights is behind us.'
At that very moment, a member of the Democratic Party hissed.
But
Trump's 60-minute speech drew 94 interruptions for applause, including a
sustained, tear-jerking ovation for the widow of a Navy SEAL killed in
action just eight days after Trump took office.
As Carryn Owens wept and
Ivanka Trump comforted her, Trump said her husband Ryan was happy that the lengthy applause 'broke a record.'
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