President Trump Addresses Joint Congress Session For 1 Hour 40 Mins: Top Quotes

President Trump talked for more than an hour and 40 minutes, during which he spoke about all the things GOP has achieved during the 43 days.

US President Donald Trump during Congress speech.

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US President Donald Trump addressed the House of Representatives after he took office as the 47th president on January 20. During his address, he spoke about the first 43 days of his administration and all the executive orders he signed within this time. Trump began his address to chants “USA! USA!” soon after he said, “America is back”. However, this is said to be a line stolen from his predecessor in the White House, Joe Biden.

According to the Associated Press (AP), Biden repeatedly said in speeches that he told world leaders that “America is back”.

President Trump talked for more than an hour and 40 minutes, breaking the previous record set by President Bill Clinton’s 2000 State of the Union address, which ran 1 hour, 28 minutes.

Here are the top quotes from his speech to Congress:

“Illegal border crossings last month were the lowest ever recorded. Ever.” In February, Trump said on his Truth Social platform that there were “8,326 apprehensions of illegals by Border Patrol at the US. - Mexico Border”. According to AP, the US only started recording the US-Mexico border totals since 1960, and the Border Patrol’s monthly average was 1,752 arrests in 1961.

“Among my very highest priorities is to rescue our economy and get dramatic and immediate relief to working families. As you know, we inherited, from the last administration, an economic catastrophe and an inflation nightmare.” The unemployment rate ticked down to a low 4% in January, the month he took office, while the economy expanded a healthy 2.8% in 2024, as per AP.

“Our country will be woke no longer.” GOP-led government has continued to criticise “wokeism”. The administration banned diversity and inclusion programs in the federal government and dismissed workers charged with advancing such efforts.

Trump gave Elon Musk and the newly-created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) a shoutout in his address. “Thank you, Elon. He’s working very hard. He didn’t need this.” “Everybody here, even this side, appreciates it, I believe,” Trump said, referring to the side of the chamber where many Democrats are sitting. “They just don’t want to admit that.”

“A major focus of our fight to defeat inflation is rapidly reducing the cost of energy ... That is why on my first day in office, I declared a national energy emergency.” President Trump has already taken steps to roll back Biden’s climate change and renewable energy policies, declaring a national energy emergency to accelerate fossil fuel development.

“I signed an order making it the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female.” Due to this order, the rights of transgender people are targeted. The orders paved the way for kicking transgender people out of the military and denying changes to the sex marker on passports.

“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.” On the same line, Trump has already taken executive actions to reverse several Biden-era policies that promoted transgender rights, while also pledging to eliminate what he calls “gender ideology.” During his speech, he urged Congress to restrict gender-affirming medical procedures for minors but provided few details on how such restrictions would be implemented.

“For $5 million, we will allow the most successful job-creating people from all over the world to buy a path to US citizenship. It’s like the green card, but better and more sophisticated.” According to AP, Trump promoted a new immigration plan he announced on February 26, which introduces a "gold card" program for wealthy prospective immigrants.

“Tariffs are about making America rich again and making America great again. And it’s happening. And it will happen rather quickly. There’ll be a little disturbance, but we’re okay with that. It won’t be much.” This comes after the US announced the beginning of tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China.

“I think we’re going to get it. One way or another, we’re going to get it.” Trump has expressed interest in acquiring Greenland since his first term. Greenland is a semiautonomous territory of Denmark, a longtime US ally and a founding member of NATO. It is also home to a large US military base.

Trump gave a shoutout to Marco Rubio, his secretary of state, as the president detailed his plans to “reclaim” the Panama Canal. “And we have Marco Rubio in charge. Good luck, Marco. Now we know who to blame if anything goes wrong.”

“The golden age of America has only just begun,” he told Congress. Republican lawmakers rose to their feet and cheered the conclusion of Trump’s address, pumping their hands in the air while chanting “Fight! Fight! Fight!” Trump has set a record for the longest address to a joint session of Congress.

"I believe that my life was saved that day in Butler for a very good reason: I was saved by God to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN." Corey Comperatore, the 50-year-old man who shot and killed during the attempted assassination of President Trump during the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.