Trump Highlights Domestic Achievements

(MENAFN) US President Donald Trump delivered a prime-time speech to the nation, emphasizing his administration’s domestic agenda, economic achievements, border security measures, and foreign policy successes, while notably omitting any discussion of escalating tensions with Venezuela or his initiatives to mediate the Ukraine crisis.

Addressing the nation from the White House on Wednesday evening, Trump asserted that he had “inherited a mess” upon returning to office nearly a year ago. He maintained that his administration had swiftly reversed what he characterized as the economic deterioration, border instability, and global disorder that had existed under his predecessor, Joe Biden.

Trump repeatedly highlighted inflation, which he attributed to the prior administration, asserting that costs had reached historic highs before declining significantly under his leadership. He pointed to reductions in the prices of gasoline, groceries, airfare, and housing-related expenses, while also claiming that wages were now increasing faster than inflation for the first time in years.

On immigration, Trump stated that his administration had secured the southern border “starting on day one,” asserting that no illegal migrants had entered the country for several months. He also credited criminal deportations with restoring safety to major cities, emphasizing that executive action, rather than new legislation, had driven what he described as a dramatic transformation at the border.

The president underscored tariffs as a cornerstone of his economic policy, claiming that they had stimulated unprecedented domestic investment and generated jobs exclusively within the private sector. According to Trump, his measures had attracted trillions of dollars in new investment and sparked a manufacturing resurgence across multiple sectors, including automobiles and artificial intelligence.

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