Donald Trump delivered an epic joint address last night. It was great. One for the ages. His speech was inspirational, aspirational, hopeful, visionary, patriotic, and reminded the world what the United States of America is like when people who truly love our country and countrymen lead it.
Trump spoke of free speech and a restoration of the recognition of that right, which is under assault around the world. And in doing so he reminded Americans of our obligation to point the way in acknowledging the human rights of all people.
Trump, as always, in his inimitable way, called out the anti-Americans who now constitute the Democratic Party as being out of touch with the “common-sense revolution” that President Trump seeks to press. The hallmarks of this revolution are things like prohibiting boys and men in girls and women’s sports.
Things like pro-gender transition propaganda in schools, mutilation of children, and claims that there are a myriad of sexes are out of favor in the age of common sense. Hallelujah.
Whether it was the promise to demand fair trade with all of our trading partners or closing our borders, the ultimate theme of the remarkable two-hour speech was that America is great, and that our history and traditions are precisely what the world needs.
My fellow Republicans greeted Trump’s message enthusiastically. The president touched on economics—we will lead the world, we will bring manufacturing back, we will be so strong that the rest of the world will be lifted up.
Congressional Republicans repeatedly rose to their feet with shouts of approbation and applause at the successes President Trump recounted from the first 43 days of his second term, and the vision of what the next four years will bring: a renaissance of American greatness and a golden age of prosperity, peace, and progress.
Democrats present in the hall, on the other hand, demonstrated that they still cannot grasp why they were so thoroughly rejected in the 2024 presidential election. First there was the out-of-tune chord struck by Rep. Al Green (D-Tex.), who has already called for President Trump to be impeached. Green insisted on shouting at the president and waving his cane like a crazed lunatic. He refused to stop his staged outrage and was finally escorted in ignominy from the House floor.
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But his tantrum was matched in its immaturity by the Democrats who had glued lollipop signs with various messages of opprobrium on popsicle sticks. That kind of display hasn’t been seen in a serious legislative body since… well, ever. Pretty childish stuff.
My favorite demonstration of adolescent pique, however, was when four or five Democratic women simultaneously stood, took off their jackets, and turned their backs to the president to display black t-shirts that said, “Resist.” After standing there for something like three seconds, they sauntered out of the House.
That was good news for me and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla). We raced from our back-row seats to take the now vacated seats left by the Democratic demonstrators who had walked out. It was a three-in-one deal for us: one, we got better seats; two, we could see President Trump better, and three, the Democrats sitting around us were discombobulated by the fact that Luna and I had infiltrated their territory with our boisterous approval of President Trump’s historic speech.
While the Democrats were melting down, President Trump outlined his early triumphs and provided a vision of hope and prosperity that any objective listener would agree is the essence of America’s virtues.
The energy in the House chamber was palpable, just as the belief in the America First movement has restored optimism and energy in the country today.
And, as long as the Democrats decide that they would rather play alone in their sandbox, President Trump and the Republicans will have the opportunity to lay the foundation for multigenerational changes.
Let it be so.
Andy Biggs, a Republican, represents Arizona’s Fifth Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The views expressed in this article are the writer’s own.