Donald Trump Like a good show, and it is difficult to complete a speech to a joint session of the congress. The house of the house is filled with legislators and the arrival of the president is announced in a booming voice by the sergeant of arms, triggering cacophonic applause.
Tuesday evening’s Trump’s speech is not technically considered as a speech on the state of the union – which comes next year, after it has been at work for longer – but there is no distinction for anyone looking at home.
Almost no detail is left to chance in these situations. Here is an idea of what to look for and listen to:
The most powerful people in the American government are generally on the platform during an event like this. While the president addresses the nation, the president of the chamber and the vice-president, who doubles the head of the Senate ceremony, sit behind him.
However, they were widely overshadowed by Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur supervising the government ministry and serving as a high adviser to Trump. There is no precedent for Musk’s operation, which has depressed the federal agencies, led to thousands of layoffs and to count, and has recable the operation of Washington.
Special guests of presidential speeches are often above the gallery room. Musk, the richest person in the world, will he be there-or elsewhere?
What does Trump say about Ukraine?
This has only been a few days since the most dramatic meeting of the Oval Office of recent memory. Trump welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to solidify a partnership involving critical minerals, only for an agreement to collapse after Trump and Vice-President JD Vance lacé in Zelenskyy on a lack of respect perceived.
Now, the future of American support for Ukraine, which has been pushing a Russian invasion for three years, is more and more doubt. “You are concluding an agreement, we have released,” Trump told Zelenskyy.
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Will Russia try to press its advantage on the battlefield? Does Zelenskyy repair things with Trump? Will American fragile relations with European allies deteriorate more?
There are no clear answers at the moment. But Tuesday’s speech will be a highly publicized opportunity for Trump, a Republican, to explain his vision of war and his approach to foreign policy.
The presidential speeches in the congress have become more refined business. Representative Joe Wilson, a Southern Carolina Republican, shouted “You lie!” To the address of President Barack Obama in Congress in 2009, and Decorum has not improved since then.
President Joe Biden entered his back and forth with Les Républicains, and Trump is known to deviate from his scenario with attempted suspension among his opponents.
How will democrats react? Sometimes their protests were silent, as when women wore white, the color of the movement of the suffragette, towards previous events. But at a time when Democratic voters are looking forward to their representatives are more aggressive, they may become more vocal.
The reaction of the Republicans is more predictable. Expect that they are trying to outdo themselves with their embrace of the president.
Does Trump sets out a legislative plan?
Trump demonstrated his desire to push the limits of the presidential power during his second term, but there are things he still needs to help in the congress to accomplish.
The President wants discounts of spending, financing of border security and tax reductions – a combination politically sensitive at a time when the Republicans have only thin majorities in the Chamber and the Senate. The party will need almost complete unanimity to move forward.
Until now, Trump has followed his typical approach to play one side against the other, sometimes approving the plan of the Chamber for massive legislation and sometimes supporting the Senate strategy aimed at dividing proposals into several bills.
Do not expect a lot of details of the president – it is not something that generally happens in speeches like this, it doesn’t matter who occupies the oval office. But Trump could reveal more about his goals or make legislators work faster. Given the power that Trump has on the party, any remark could reshape the debate.
What version of Trump appears?
The president is in his element when he pronounces remarks in a free wheel, bouncing from the subject about what he likes to call “weaving”.
But this is generally not that these types of discourse take place. They are often carefully scripted, the kind of monologue that Trump could label “boring” in an article on social social if he watched him on television.
How long will Trump stay on the telepromote this time? And how much will it turn the track?
An index could be Trump’s speech to the National Republican Convention last summer when he accepted the party’s presidential appointment. He started moderation, even dark, when he shared the story of his attempted assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania.
But the call for national unity finally gave way to a more typical grievance of the Trump strain speeches.
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