When Donald Trump speaks to Congress tonight, history will be made. Only the second president to serve non-sequential terms, he is the fastest off “go.” He will likely address a breathtaking list of early accomplishments, how they mesh with Trump One, and what lies ahead. Meantime, modern Democrats, many Marxist, disrespectful of elections, history, and institutions, will pan the speech.
What will this outsized, accomplished, and historic president say? Already having put a successful term in the history books, big wins in a political hurricane, and then withstood anti-constitutional efforts to keep him from regaining office, delegitimize, bankrupt, and jail him, he is unique.
He is uniquely persistent, determined, courageous, and – when it counts – a winner. Nothing he says can outshine the reality of his life to date, a man firmly against the wind, politically demonized, and then – arguably by divine intervention – allowed to survive two assassination attempts.
That he did after surviving a string of illegitimate, anti-constitutional, stunningly corrupt political attempts to redefine, paralyze, and remove him in his first term, including two malicious, utterly groundless impeachments, engineered by individuals who, on closer examination, were dishonest.
So now, triumphant, he will make clear – just by standing in the chamber, a thoughtful Vice President and House Speaker behind him – that principle matters, odds be damned, the good fight is always worth fighting, love of country and respect for history will prevail, must never depart us.
What else will he say? He will talk about almost 100 executive orders, reversing the arrogance, lawlessness, and disrespect for institutions – Supreme Court to Constitutional process – that his predecessor indulged. He will talk law and order, truth against twisted narratives.
He will report on what six weeks of leadership has done to close our southern border, put drug traffickers, illegal alien felons, and those who protect lawlessness on defense. He will talk about reality, boys and girls, real Title IX law, not Marxist fantasies, and 32 flavors of gender.
He will talk bigger things, the end of reverse discrimination, Orwellian perversions of language, like pushing the majority to accommodate anti-constitutional, anti-American, prejudicial ideas like DEI, CRT, ESG, and more three-letter tricks to concentrate power and end the American Dream.
If Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln, never mind Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman, JFK, and Ronald Reagan were alive, they would rise to their feet and applaud this turn and Trump’s determination to limit government.
Nothing did our founders care more about than limiting government, stopping its self-perpetuating tendency to grow, in that way to intrude, disrespect, squeeze out, and oppress fundamental, God-given rights – preserved in the text of our Constitution.
And that will occupy much of his address, for sure. Never, perhaps with the exception of Ronald Reagan, has any president come with a stronger determination to call ut dishonesty, shrink and make accountable the gangly monstrosity that now passes for our federal government.
Trump will talk about the unaccountable, unconstrainted, and ultimately abusive spending in secret and self-designed, often wildly anti-American programs – dishonest, greedy, unaccountable bureaucrats and contractors, working together to suck money from 2000 federal agencies.
He will likely note that this money comes from hard-working Americans, is spent in ways that undermine rather than reinforce our national interest, and that this weed garden is a mess, has been a mess for decades, and needs to be turned into lean, productive, accountable government.
Whether he gets into the law or not, each and every step he is taking, tracked as they have been by this former litigator, investigator, congressional, executive, and judicial servant – and military officer – has been faithful to our Constitution, and that too is worth noting. He models constitutionalism.
What else? He will likely talk about reenergizing individuals, protecting kids, revitalizing American business, protecting American workers, and restoring energy independence. He will remind us of our better selves, the importance of “the better angels of our nature,” as Lincoln did.
In short, like a breath of cool, fresh, oxygen-rich air – when many of us wondered if we would again breathe free air – he will remind us that this is a nation founded on defending every citizen’s right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
President Trump will also likely refer to prioritizing peace in Eastern Europe and the Mideast, ending the Ukraine-Russia war, and perhaps even mentioning Theodore Roosevelt’s ending another Russian war. He may also mention the Mideast, where peace will again have a rebirth under his guidance.
And who knows, like Reagan – and several of our founders – President Trump has an amusing, often unexpected, spontaneous sense of humor. He may lighten and regale us with that.
Once done, the oddly off balance, seemingly unrecoverable modern Democrats – in and out of the mainstream media – can be expected to double, triple, and quadruple down on their semi-religious Marxist messages, disgracing their formerly honorable trade.
The press will wring their hands, talk smack about whatever they can, blame Trump for not moving fast enough, not shrinking the ungodly national debt, reversing Biden’s four years of overspending, inflation, high interest, and public corruption. But just wait. Trump … has hardly begun.
Robert Charles is a former Assistant Secretary of State under Colin Powell, former Reagan and Bush 41 White House staffer, attorney, and naval intelligence officer (USNR). He wrote “Narcotics and Terrorism” (2003), “Eagles and Evergreens” (2018), and is National Spokesman for AMAC. Robert Charles has also just released an uplifting new book, “Cherish America: Stories of Courage, Character, and Kindness” (Tower Publishing, 2024).
