In his first State of the Union address, President Donald Trump extolled the successes of his tenure, while brushing off the scandals that have plagued his administration.
“Over the last year, the world has seen what we always knew – that no people on Earth are so fearless or daring or determined as Americans. If there is a mountain, we climb it. If there is a frontier, we cross it. If there is a challenge, we tame it,” he said.
In a speech that lasted nearly 90 minutes, Trump called on the country to unite as “one American family.”
DW looks at the key passages of his wide-ranging speech.
Immigration plan
Trump spent the bulk of his speech addressing domestic topics, the most prominent of which centered around US immigration reform. Trump called for a “four-pillared” plan: “generously” offering a path to citizenship for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, securing the border with “our great wall,” ending the visa lottery system and ending “chain migration.” He added that “Americans are dreamers too” — referring to the “Dreamers” nickname of DACA recipients.
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