President Trump delivered a celebratory speech to Congress, declaring that he had swiftly notched several wins for the American people. WSJ’s Andrew Restuccia joins Kate Linebaugh and Molly Ball to discuss the roadmap Trump laid out and what it means for the next few years. See The Journal live! Take our survey! Further Listening: -The Trade War With China Is On -Trump's Tariffs Cause Chaos in Auto Industry -Inside DOGE's Campaign of Secrecy Further Reading: -An Annotated Fact-Check and Analysis of Trump’s Speech to Congress -How Trump’s Polite Meeting With Zelensky Descended Into Acrimony Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Hey, Molly. Hey, you're not Ryan. I am not Ryan. No, Ryan's off this week, so you've got me.
Wait, so who are you?
I'm Kate Linebaugh, co-host of The Journal. And I understand this podcast, Trump 2.0, is about Trump's first 100 days. You are correct. How many days into Trump's presidency are we? Let me see. 46 days. So we're not even halfway to that 100-day benchmark. But this week, we did hit an important milestone. Trump laid out his vision for the country in his first speech to Congress.
Members of the United States Congress, thank you very much. And to my fellow citizens, America is back.
What did you come away with from the speech?
You know, it was a defiant speech, an unapologetic speech, a long speech, and a speech that I think gave us a real window into how Trump is seeing his very disruptive first several weeks in the White House in his second term.
It has been nothing but swift and unrelenting action to usher in the greatest and most successful era in the history of our country.
What did it tell you about where Trump is taking the country?
It told me that he is determined to see through these incredibly disruptive changes that he's unleashed, no matter what the cost to his party, to his own political prospects. And he is convinced that we are going to come out better on the other side once we get through it.
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