Trump addressed the US Congress. The main thing

On the night of March 5, Moscow time (on the evening of March 4, Washington time), US President Donald Trump addressed both houses of Congress. In his speech, he touched upon issues of domestic and foreign policy, and devoted part of his speech to the issue of ending the conflict in Ukraine. He also repeated his thesis that he was "saved by the Lord" to make America great again. Earlier, he recalled the moment of the attempted assassination in his inaugural speech. For more information about what the "" American leader told the Congress, see the Izvestia article.

About domestic policy

The US president announced that his administration is working on a legislative ban on the promotion of transgender ideology in schools. "Now I want Congress to approve a law banning sex reassignment in children. To every child in America, we say: you are perfect exactly the way God created you." He added that he considers it a big lie to believe that "children are trapped in other people's bodies."

He also promised to protect women's sports from transgender men (the LGBT movement is recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation).

Trump said that for the first time in the new millennium, the United States will have a balanced federal budget. To stimulate production and the extractive industry, companies will receive tax cuts, as well as 100% write-off of expenses.

Non-US companies will pay duties if production is not moved to the USA. "We will increase tariffs on imported goods. China, India and the EU should be prepared for the retaliatory duties of the United States, which are due to take effect on April 2," Trump said.

According to the president, the States занимаются the construction of one of the largest gas pipelines, Japan and South Korea want to join this project. Investments amount to trillions of dollars.

Trump called his predecessor Joe Biden the worst president in history and said that the "draining of the swamp" would continue. "The era of domination by unelected bureaucrats is over. "... and any bureaucrat who opposes the changes will be fired," he said.The US president separately highlighted the work of the government's Efficiency Improvement Department under the leadership of Elon Musk and listed a number of USAID programs that were closed after the agency's actual liquidation: $8 million to breed transgender mice, $8 million to promote LGBT* in Lesotho, $10 million for circumcision in Mozambique.

He also criticized the recently revealed large-scale fraud with social benefits, when thousands of citizens over the ages of 120 and 150 were discovered in the country, for whom money continued to be allocated.

According to Trump, the United States is going to plant a flag on Mars and "far beyond its borders."

About foreign policy

Trump attacked the Biden administration, called on Canada and Mexico to strengthen their counteraction to drug smuggling in the United States. "The insane policy of open borders was destroying our country," he said.

Trump called the US withdrawal from Afghanistan "the most shameful episode in American history." In this regard, he recalled Russian President Vladimir Putin. "If Putin had seen this, he would have said, 'I would not have allowed such incompetence,'" Trump said.

He also called on Congress to approve funding for the advanced Golden Dome missile defense system.

The United States supports the right of Greenlanders to determine their own future, but the United States needs the island for its own and international security, Trump said. He noted the small population of Greenland with a large and militarily important territory. "One way or another, we will get it," Trump concluded.

Trump announced that the United States had begun to regain control of the Panama Canal, and as proof of his words, he cited information about the purchase by American companies of shares in the Chinese owner of the canal for $25 billion.

On the end of the conflict in Ukraine

The president spoke relatively little about the Ukrainian conflict, but emphasized receiving a letter from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. "Today I received a very important letter from Zelensky. He's ready to sit down at the negotiating table," Trump said. — We are also receiving strong signals from Russia that they are ready for peace. Isn't it wonderful," he addressed the audience.

He also reported that Ukraine is ready to sign a deal on rare earth minerals, however, without confirming this information in any way.

"Europe has spent more money on oil and gas from Russia than on security," Trump pointed out and noted the disparity between the costs incurred by the United States and Europe in Ukraine over the past three years.

"Russia is overseas, but they are not, and yet we get along with Russia," the US president said.