Democrats’ protested en masse as President Donald Trump touted the accomplishments of his first six weeks in office for nearly two hours during an address to Congress Tuesday at the Capitol.
Ahead of Trump’s joint address, Democrats had big plans to protest and interrupt the speech. Some wore pink to protest Trump’s policies “devastating women.” Others held up signs reading “this is not normal.” Minutes into the speech, Democratic Texas Rep. Al Green was kicked out of the chamber for yelling that Trump did not have a “mandate.” (RELATED: 22 Dem Senators Rebuke Trump In Copy-Pasted Speech Ahead Of President’s Address To Congress)
After Green was removed, the rest of Trump’s address progressed rather smoothly, as he made new announcements, highlighted his special guests and read a laundry list of his administration’s accomplishments.
(L-R, front) Members of Democratic House leadership US Representative Pete Aguilar (D-CA), Representative Katherine Clark (D-MA) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) listen as US President Donald Trump speaks during an address to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
The speech started with a rundown of executive orders signed by Trump, including withdrawing from Paris Climate Accord and reversing the Green New Deal.
“Over the past six weeks, I have signed nearly 100 executive orders and taken more than 400 executive actions, a record to restore common sense, safety, optimism and wealth all across our wonderful land,” Trump said.
A big focal point of the president’s speech was the executive order he signed which prohibits men from playing on women’s sports teams. The president shouted out 19-year-old Payton McNabb, who was left with a traumatic brain injury after a biological man spiked a volleyball into her head.
“Payton, from now on, schools will kick the men off the girls team or lose federal funding,” Trump announced to Congress.
Transgender issues were a major theme of the speech, with Trump later stating that no child is born in the wrong body.
Sitting in the chamber, Trump shouts out Payton McNabb, who was left with a traumatic brain injury after a transgender-identifying man spiked a volleyball into her head, as @DailyCaller reported earlier.
He used the moment to highlight the EO he signed prohibiting men from… https://t.co/EZWQFhu1ak pic.twitter.com/KzkW5idPcH
— Reagan Reese (@reaganreese_) March 5, 2025
Trump also predictably highlighted perhaps the biggest project of his administration thus far, the Department of Government Efficiency. Trump called attention to Elon Musk, who was seated in the chamber, and the federal funding he and his staff have slashed.
“Just listen to some of the appalling waste we have already identified, $22 billion from HHS to provide free housing and cars for illegal aliens. $45 million for diversity, equity and inclusion scholarships in Burma. $40 million to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants. Nobody knows what that is,” Trump said, continuing down the list.
“$8 million to provide promote LGBTQI+ in the African nation of Lesotho, which nobody has ever heard of, $60 million for indigenous peoples and Afro-Colombian empowerment in Central America, $60 million. $8 million for making mice transgender,” he said.
The president also touched on the biggest news of the day, tariffs on the United States’ neighbors Canada and Mexico. He announced there will be additional reciprocal tariffs going forward, beginning in April.
An American steel worker was in the audience as a special guest of the president, highlighted when Trump spoke about the 25% tariff he imposed on foreign aluminum, copper, lumber and steel. Trump explained that Jeff Denard had been working at the same steel plant for 27 years while also serving as the captain of his local volunteer fire department. He and his wife, Trump shared, raised seven kids and have fostered 40 children.
“Stories like Jeff’s remind us that tariffs are not just about protecting American jobs. They are about protecting the soul of our country. Tariffs are about making America rich again and making America great again,” the president said.
Another focal point of the president’s speech was the southern border and mass deportations. Touting the actions he has taken on the border, Trump highlighted border czar Tom Homan and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
“The media and our friends in the Democrat Party kept saying, we needed new legislation. We must have legislation to secure the border, but it turned out that all we really needed was a new president,” he said to repeated chants of “Trump.”
And with Alexis Nungaray, the mother of the late Jocelyn Nungaray, a 12-year-old girl who was murdered by two illegal aliens, in attendance, Trump announced that he had just signed an executive order in her daughter’s memory, renaming Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge the “Jocelyn Nungaray National Refuge.” The 12-year-old girl loved animals, Trump said, and he had promised Alexis to honor her memory. In attendance was also the family of the late Laken Riley, the 22-year-old girl murdered by an illegal immigrant while on a run at the University of Georgia.
🚨BREAKING🚨 TRUMP displays a new signed executive order dedicating a wildlife refuge in the memory of Jocelyn Nungaray, who was a 12-year-old girl murdered by an illegal immigrant last year. pic.twitter.com/ZydCbf2zsB
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) March 5, 2025
Trump later turned to DJ Daniel, a young boy diagnosed with brain cancer. The president announced that DJ has a dream of being a police officer, and then, in that moment, directed his Secret Service to name DJ an agent of the United States Secret Service.
Most Democratic members in attendance notably did not stand during the honoring of several of Trump’s guests, like Nungaray and Daniel.
More Democratic heckling…as Trump calls for Congress to pass more protections for police officers and THEN recognizes DJ Daniel, a 13-year-old Texas boy who dreams of becoming a police officer and survived brain cancer. pic.twitter.com/PJl7DoH193
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 5, 2025
In one of his biggest announcements of the night, Trump announced that his administration had apprehended the top terrorist responsible for the Abbey Gate bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, which left 13 American soldiers dead, and many severely injured. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: ‘Blood Is On Their Hands’: Abbey Gate Survivor Describes Coming Face To Face With Joe Biden)
“I am pleased to announce that we have just apprehended the top terrorist responsible for that atrocity, and he is right now on his way here to face the Swift sword of American justice,” Trump said.
Abbey Gate survivor Tyler Andrew-Vargas sits down with the Daily Caller’s @reaganreese_ to recount his experience meeting the president, being shunned by the woman who wants to replace the him, and coming face-to-face with death.
Here’s the full interview: pic.twitter.com/bnRHP6v7Ol
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) September 19, 2024
Trump rounded out his speech by listing how Americans have excelled throughout the country’s entire history, adding that under his administration that will continue.
“Every single day we will stand up and we will fight, fight, fight for the country our citizens believe in, and for the country our people deserve,” Trump said.
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