Quotes
From this moment on, America’s decline is over,
Trump said, speaking in the US Capitol Rotunda The golden age of America begins right now.”
Speaking from inside the US Capitol Rotunda because of the subfreezing temperatures, Trump said With my actions today, we will end the Green New Deal, and we will revoke the electric vehicle mandate.”
Trump misled when he said Over the span of more than three decades, at least 25,000 workers died in the construction of the Panama Canal,
author Christopher Klein wrote in a 2023 History.com article Tariffs artificially raise the cost of doing business, which depresses overall economic production in the form of lower gross domestic product, artificially higher prices and fewer goods sold,
Boise State University political scientist Ross Burkhart, who studies trade policy, told PolitiFact in August Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens.”
Arguing for his plan to enact tariffs, Trump said Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims of their despicable acts, and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss,
Biden said in a December 23, 2024, statement I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level.”
Next, I will direct all members of my Cabinet to marshal the vast powers at their disposal to defeat what was record inflation and rapidly bring down costs and prices.”
How many times can you say that an apple has doubled in cost,
And above all, China is operating the Panama Canal,
There is no presence of any nation in the world that interferes with our administration,
he said in a statement on X, in apparent reference to Trump’s accusation that Panama had ceded its operation to China When we think about why the incoming Trump administration wants to freeze regulations and halt public protections wholesale, it is at the behest of the wealthiest among us, corporate special interests,
said Lisa Gilbert, co-president of the nonprofit consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen Donald Trump did not do that. This was one of the most partisan presidential inaugural speeches — it was less an inaugural speech and more a State of the Union. He just listed a series of bullet points of projects he wanted to undertake, from deporting immigrants to seizing back the Panama Canal,
said Jeremi Suri, a history professor at the University of Texas at Austin The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation, one that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations, and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons,
he said in his inaugural address Monday I think this was a better speech than the one I made upstairs, OK?"
It's hard for the United States to tell [Russian President] Vladimir Putin or [Chinese President] Xi Jinping that they should not seek expansion when our president is talking about expansion, but insofar as we don't follow through on that rhetoric, we still are on very strong ground to say that invading your neighbor, as Putin has in Ukraine, or as China might potentially do in Taiwan, that is verboten, that crosses the line, so long as it's just words from us,
Nothing will stand in our way, ... because we are Americans, the future is ours, and our Golden Age has just begun.”
We will be the envy of every nation, and we will not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer,
America will soon be greater, stronger and far more exceptional than ever before,