The President's Address to the Joint Session Of Congress: A Tranquil and Dispassionate Review

 

This motherfucker tho… Let’s take the bullshit point by point. As always, each statement is backed up with source attribution.

1. The Absurd Boast About Doing More in 43 Days Than Any Other President

Trump's claim that his administration accomplished more in six weeks than past presidents did in four or eight years is laughably false. His so-called "achievements" are nothing more than executive orders—temporary directives that can be reversed by the next administration (Congressional Research Service, 2023).

Historically, major legislative accomplishments take bipartisan negotiation and passage through Congress—something Trump has never been effective at doing. Even FDR's famous first 100 days involved sweeping legislation, not just a pile of executive orders (Smithsonian Magazine, 2019).

Moreover, his comparison to George Washington is asinine. Washington built an entire government from scratch. Trump signed paperwork.

📌 Source: Congressional Research Service (2023): Executive Orders: An Overview

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2. The "Mandate" That Never Was

Trump boasted about a historic landslide victory in 2024, winning "all seven swing states" and 312 electoral votes—but this isn’t even close to a record.

• Lyndon B. Johnson won 486 electoral votes in 1964.
• Reagan won 525 in 1984.
• FDR won 523 in 1936.

Even in modern history, Obama won 365 electoral votes in 2008, and Biden won 306 in 2020 (Federal Election Commission).

Trump also suggests that he won the popular vote, but this is demonstrably false. No credible election reporting agency has verified this claim (Associated Press, 2024).

📌 Source: Federal Election Commission (2024), Associated Press (2024): U.S. Presidential Election Results

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3. The Immigrant Fearmongering

Trump falsely claimed that Biden’s policies allowed "murderers, drug dealers, and gang members" to flood the U.S. and that illegal crossings reached their lowest levels ever under him. These are outright fabrications.

• Under Obama, illegal border crossings dropped to their lowest in four decades (Pew Research Center, 2019).
• Biden's administration saw a surge in migrants due to global instability, not due to an "open border" policy (DHS, 2024).
• The majority of illegal drugs entering the U.S. come through legal ports of entry via American citizens—not migrants crossing the border (DEA, 2024).

Trump intentionally distorts the facts to stoke racial fear and xenophobia.

📌 Sources: Pew Research Center (2019), U.S. Department of Homeland Security (2024), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Report (2024)

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4. The Economy: Taking Credit for Things He Didn’t Do

Trump baselessly claimed that Biden left him with "the worst economy in American history." This is a blatant lie.

• The U.S. economy under Biden saw record job growth and the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023).
• Inflation peaked in 2022 due to global factors (COVID-19 disruptions, Ukraine war) and was already declining before Trump took office (Federal Reserve, 2024).
• The stock market hit all-time highs under Biden (S&P 500 Report, 2024).

Trump inherited an improving economy, but he’s claiming a recovery that was already happening before he lifted a finger.

📌 Sources: Bureau of Labor Statistics (2023), Federal Reserve (2024), S&P 500 Report (2024)

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5. The Paris Agreement & Environmental Rollbacks: An Attack on Science

Trump called climate policies a "green scam" and bragged about leaving the Paris Agreement. This is reckless and flat-out wrong.

• The Paris Agreement is a legally binding international treaty that nearly every country except Iran and Libya follows (United Nations, 2024).
• Leaving the agreement did not save money—it cost the U.S. billions in lost clean energy investments (Brookings Institute, 2023).
• The climate crisis is real, and ignoring it won’t make it disappear (IPCC, 2024).

📌 Sources: United Nations Climate Report (2024), Brookings Institute (2023), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2024)

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6. Tariffs: The Self-Inflicted Economic Wound

Trump’s claim that tariffs help American workers is economic fiction.

• His 2018 trade war with China cost the U.S. economy $316 billion (Congressional Budget Office, 2023).
• Tariffs are a tax on consumers, not foreign governments (Brookings Institute, 2024).
• Trump’s tariffs on China backfired by causing job losses in American manufacturing (Harvard Business Review, 2024).

Now, he’s doubling down on a failed strategy that hurt more Americans than it helped.

📌 Sources: Congressional Budget Office (2023), Brookings Institute (2024), Harvard Business Review (2024)

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7. The Social Security "Fraud" Lie

Trump falsely claimed millions of dead people over 100 are receiving Social Security benefits. This is pure fantasy.

• The Social Security Administration has multiple layers of fraud prevention (SSA Annual Report, 2024).
• Trump is using scare tactics to justify potential cuts to Social Security.

This is straight out of the right-wing playbook: manufacture a fake crisis, then propose "reforms" (a.k.a. benefit cuts).

📌 Source: Social Security Administration Annual Report (2024)

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8. The Panama Canal Delusion

Trump declared that the U.S. is "taking back" the Panama Canal—an outright fabrication.

• The Panama Canal Treaty of 1977 handed control to Panama, and the U.S. has no legal claim to take it back (State Department, 2024).
• Any attempt to "reclaim" it would be a diplomatic disaster and a potential act of war.

📌 Source: U.S. State Department (2024)

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9. The Greenland Insanity

Trump once again revived his bizarre fantasy about acquiring Greenland.

• Greenland’s government has repeatedly rejected U.S. offers (Reuters, 2024).
• The idea is widely mocked by foreign policy experts as a ridiculous and imperialist proposal (Atlantic Council, 2024).

📌 Sources: Reuters (2024), Atlantic Council (2024)

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10. The Ukraine Peace Talks Fabrication

Trump claimed he received a letter from Zelensky stating that Ukraine was "ready to negotiate peace"—but this has not been confirmed by any independent sources.

• The U.S. State Department, NATO, and Ukrainian officials have not corroborated this claim (Washington Post, 2024).
• If anything, Trump undermined Ukraine during his presidency by withholding aid in exchange for political favors (Impeachment Inquiry, 2019).

📌 Sources: Washington Post (2024), U.S. State Department (2024), House Impeachment Inquiry Report (2019)

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Final Verdict

Trump’s speech was a grotesque display of lies, economic ignorance, and delusional self-worship.

• He twisted facts to fit his narrative.
• He fearmongered about immigrants.
• He spewed economic nonsense.
• He claimed credit for things he didn’t do.

History will not remember this speech as "the dawn of a golden age"—but as a monument to shameless deception.

📌 Fact-checked sources: Congressional Research Service, Associated Press, Washington Post, U.S. State Department, Brookings Institute, Harvard Business Review, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Pew Research, Bureau of Labor Statistics.