President Donald Trump vowed six weeks after his second mission tour at the White House, “I'll tell you that as it is.” When he headed to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to deliver his Primetime address to Congress and the country.
The president promotes his domestic and international achievements, spotlights what the Trump administration has done for the economy, and is sensible to Congress passing additional border guard funds and detailing plans for peace around the world.
The former president's speechwriter calls Trump's first major speech to Congress during his second presidential administration, calling it “a great platform for the president…”
“It's a dramatic environment,” said Bill McGurn, former chief speechwriter of then-President George W. Bush.
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President Donald Trump will give his final state speech in his first term at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on February 4, 2020. (Getty Images)
McGurn said the president's first speech to Congress after he took office was a “great opportunity to broadcast their message widely.”
“He's going to make his point,” predicted McGurn.
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Trump moved at warp speed, highlighting executive orders and actions during his opening six weeks ago at the White House. His move not only fulfilled some of his major campaign trail promises, but also allowed the returning president to bend the muscles of his executives and quickly put his stamp in the federal government, significantly reducing the federal workforce and to resolve long-standing complaints.
Trump has signed 82 executive orders as of Tuesday since taking office on January 20th. That's far surpassed the recent president's predecessor's rate, according to Fox News' counts.
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on February 14, 2025 at the White House Oval Office. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Many of the moves Trump has made are controversial, including threats to tariffs on major trading partners, including Canada and Mexico, overturning the country's international agenda, freezing foreign aid, and a well-known crackdown on illegal immigration.
Also, the most attention is Trump's recently created government efficiency (DOGE). Named cards Elon Musk – The wealthiest person in the world and the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX – piloting Doge.
Since Trump took office, Doge has taken federal agencies by storm and eradicated what the White House claims to be billions of federal spending. It also brought flesh clefts to federal workers, resulting in massive downsizing for employees. The Doge move caused many lawsuits accordingly.
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“I'll write it as a victory and write it towards the future,” Clark Judge, former speechwriter and special assistant to then-President Ronald Reagan, said when asked by Fox News Digital to say about Kuzi whether he was writing Trump's speech.
What Trump says in his speech to Congress regarding the Russian-Ukraine war will be closely monitored after the oval clash between Ukrainian President Voldy Mie Zelensky and Vice President Trump and Vice President JD Vance on Friday.
Center President Donald Trump met with Ukrainian President Voldy Miazelensky in the oval office of the White House in Washington, DC on February 28, 2025, for Vice President J.D. Vance to respond. (Reuters/Brian Snyder/File Photo)
“No doubt he's going to explain how he sees the world,” McGurn emphasized. “Donald Trump isn't shy about saying what he thinks, so he's going to express it in full throat.”
He also said, “There's something I do to support a lot of Republicans. Democrats, I can't imagine. They're enthusiastic about anything. It can be very dramatic. People are looking for boos and cheers.”
Dan Cruchee, former senior speechwriter for then-President Joe Biden, gave Trump his own advice.
“What Donald Trump should do is not to turn inward towards himself, but to turn his focus out of the American people,” Cluchee told Fox News Digital.
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He argued that “the Americans deserve an explanation for why they can't deal with record egg prices, threatening to cancer research, weather forecasts, destruction of Medicaid and the Social Security Agency, torching world's leading heritage as a leading advocate for democracy, threatening to speed up a strong economy, and speeding up a strong economy that inherits inadequate collapse.”
But Cluchey predicts, “What Donald Trump * does is what he does in return, instead, he always does: make a record and stick to Donald Trump.”
