President Trump address to joint session of Congress

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17 Quotes from President Trump’s Address
to Joint Session of Congress

With a gallery full of guests, many of whom were mentioned during the message, the 47^th president paid tribute to a wide range of individuals and highlighted many of his administration’s top priorities.

Here are some of the top quotes from the president’s historic message:

“Our message to every child in America is that you are perfect exactly the way God made you.”

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“I’ve stopped all government censorship and brought back free speech in America.”

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“We believe that whether you are a doctor, an accountant, a lawyer or an air traffic controller, you should be hired and promoted based on skill and competence, not race or gender … You should be hired based on merit.”

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“We have removed the poison of critical race theory from our public schools, and I signed an order making it the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male and female. I also signed an executive order to ban men from playing in women’s sports.”

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“From now on, schools will kick the men off the girls’ team or they will lose all federal funding.”

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“Just take a look at what happened in the women’s boxing, weightlifting, track and field, swimming or cycling, where a male recently finished a long-distance race five hours and 14 minutes ahead of a woman for a new record by five hours — broke the record by five hours. It’s demeaning for women, and it’s very bad for our country. We’re not going to put up with it any longer.”

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“By slashing all of the fraud, waste and theft we can find, we will defeat inflation, bring down mortgage rates, lower car payments and grocery prices, protect our seniors and put more money in the pockets of American families.”

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“If we truly care about protecting Americans’ children, no step is more crucial than securing America’s borders.”

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“Our goal is to get toxins out of our environment, poisons out of our food supply, and keep our children healthy and strong. As an example, not long ago, and you can’t even believe these numbers, one in 10,000 children have autism. One in 10,000. And now it’s one in 36. There’s something wrong. One in 36. Think of that.”

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“My administration is also working to protect our children from toxic ideologies in our schools. A few years ago, January Littlejohn and her husband discovered that their daughter’s school had secretly socially transitioned their 13-year-old little girl, teachers and administrators conspired to deceive January and her husband while encouraging her daughter to use a new name and pronouns. They/them pronoun actually. All without telling January. She is here tonight and is now a courageous advocate against this form of child abuse.”

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“I signed an executive order banning public schools from indoctrinating our children with transgender ideology.”

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“I also signed an order to cut off all taxpayer funding to any institution that engages in the sexual mutilation of our youth. Now I want Congress to pass a bill permanently banning and criminalizing sex changes on children and forever ending the lie that any child is trapped in the wrong body. This is a big lie. And our message to every child in America is that you are perfect exactly the way God made you.”

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“Our service members won’t be activists and ideologues, they will be fighters and warriors, they will fight for our country.”

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“From the patriots of Lexington and Concord to the heroes of Gettysburg and Normandy, from the warriors who crossed the Delaware to the trailblazers who climbed the Rockies and from the legends who soared at Kitty Hawk to the astronauts who touched the moon, Americans have always been the people who defied all odds, transcended all dangers, made the most extraordinary sacrifices and did whatever it took to defend our children, our country and our freedom.”

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“Our ancestors crossed a vast ocean, strode into an unknown wilderness and carved their fortunes from the rock and soil of a perilous and very dangerous frontier.”

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“They chased our destiny across a boundless continent. They built the railroads, laid the highways and graced the world with American marvels like the Empire State Building, the mighty Hoover Dam, and the towering Golden Gate Bridge. They lit the world with electricity, broke free of the force of gravity, fired up the engines of American industry, vanquished the communists, fascists and Marxists all over the world, and gave us countless modern wonders sculpted out of iron, glass, and steel.”

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“We stand on the shoulders of these pioneers who built the modern age. These workers who were there swept into the skylines of our cities, these warriors who shed their blood on fields of battle, gave everything they had for our rights and for our freedom.”

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President Trump is just six weeks into his second term, a tenure that is eliciting strong reaction from friends and foes alike. Regardless of where you are on the political spectrum, you’d be wise to buckle-up and pray for the president and all our elected leaders.