Washington – The nation will listen to a new president to sing a very different melody in his speech during the star before Congress on Tuesday night. Some Americans will sing lustfully. Others will connect their ears.
The old melody is out: the one that a president declares “firmly support NATO”, “I firmly believe in free trade” and Washington must do more to promote clean air, clean water, the health of women and civil rights.
That was Donald Trump in 2017.
That was when the gestures of bipartisanship and appeals to the national unity were still in the mixture the night when the president arrives before the Congress to remain in the state of the Union. Trump, then new at work, was making his balance in the halls of power and was not ready to trample everything.
Three more years passed before the Americans saw the Democratic representative Nancy Pelosi de California, then the speaker of the House of Representatives and her host of the State of the Union in the Chamber, perfectly tear a copy of Trump’s speech in disgust for its content.
On Tuesday, Americans who tune in Trump’s direction will see if he talks to the whole country, as he did mainly in his first speech of this type in the Chamber as president, or only in the middle he voted for him.
They will also see if he is at the ceremony and the common courtesies, as he did in 2017, or bores himself by the show and incitement.
He enters that days later Assault Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy For his face and before the cameras in the Oval office for not expressing enough gratitude for the support of the United States in the Ukraine War with Russia. It was a sample of public humiliation by an American president of an unparalleled foreign leader in anyone’s memory.
Jarrett Borden, walking towards lunch in Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, Florida, last week, said ambivalence about Trump, having heard a lot “Hogwash” of him even while liked something he has done. Borden anticipates a good show on Tuesday and will see it.
“I want to see if you are going to leave the microphone open for ELON ALMIZCLEAs if it were an open microphone in a club or something, “he said, citing the billionaire architect of Trump’s civil service.” This is what he has been doing recently, which is comical. ”
In Philadelphia, the visual artist Nova Villanueva will spend Tuesday night doing something, anything, more. She likes to avoid politics and social networks completely these tense days.
“Yes, it’s a bit sad,” he said. “It’s almost as if I had to be ignorant to be at peace with myself and with my life at this time.”
The first speech of a new president to Congress is not appointed a speech of the State of the Union, which is approaching so close to the inauguration of January 20. But it has the same purpose, offering an annual accounting of what has been done, what is to come and in what condition the country is, as the president sees.
It is usual in the modern times that the president says that the state of the union is strong, regardless of what disaster he can be. Trump won the elections saying that the state of the Union was in ruins and that it was going to do well.
The Trump that went to Congress on February 28, 2017 is now recognizable, despite the measured tone and content of that speech. After all, he had already shocked the political class by assaulting the “US butcher shop” of the inaugural stage.
He told Congress That night I wanted NATO members to spend more on their armed forces, wanted trade to be “fair”, as well as free, and wanted foreign crisis countries to become stable enough for people who fled to the United States could return home. But he did not open his first term with the heartbreaking turns in foreign policy, the shots of the civil service, the agitated mass deportation or the shouts of “drill, baby, drill” today.
In a line that could come from any president of any of the parties, Trump pointed out in his 2017 speech that, “with the help of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, we have formed advice with our neighbors in Canada to help ensure that entrepreneurial women have access to networks, markets and capital that they need to start a business and live their financial dreams.”
Now he despises Trudeau as “governor” of a land that wants to make state 51 and is about to Slam with ratesTogether with Mexico. Canadians, not known by patriotism samples, are boiling on their neighbor and hurry to buy and fly their flag.
In Philadelphia, little entrepreneur Michael Magraviti cannot avoid taking some satisfaction in the exploration of the bureaucracy by Trump as the dismissals accumulate with a little consideration for how good people did their job or how those works helped maintain services to the public career.
“He said for years and years: ‘Drane the swamp, drains the swamp,” Magraviti said. “But, you know, now is the time to drain the swamp.”
“We have seen again and again that the government is horribly ineffective in everything it wants to do,” he continued. “The fact that they are really taking measures about something they say are going to do, the fact that they are ready to take the ax and take it to our government, is something I appreciate.”
To Cassandra Piper, a philadelphia instrumentalist, Trump’s movement To stop making cents It was a “good decision”, unlike everything else he said and done.
“Exhaustively disappointed the changes that are being made,” said Piper, stopping me to speak while walking through the Liberty Bell Center. “It is not that I was very happy with the status quo in advance in the first place, but there is absolutely no good that can come from the inhumanity of mass deportation, something for which this country has already been fixed.”
Thus, also, with the Trump selection of vaccination skeptics, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as Secretary of Health and his election of musk to lead the effort to “effectively loot the government of its resources”, in Piper’s opinion.
In Hollywood, Florida, Borden, which is black, said that to the extent that Trump can take money that Washington spends abroad and pumping it to the economy of the United States, “then you are making the United States great again. But do that without racial connotations. Do that without negative energy, and we will be fine. “
“I think the world is only the world, and we should all love each other,” he said.
Abraham Lincoln could have agreed, while summoning the “best angels of our nature” in An inaugural speechA month before the civil war, which begged Americans not to “break our affection ties.”
Trump also had something to say on that subject in 2017: “We all bleed the same blood.”
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Associated Press Tassanee Vejpongsa’s video journalists in Philadelphia and Daniel Kozin in Hollywood, Florida, contributed to this report.
