I have sat in the U.S. House Chamber as a Congressional staffer several times for presidential addresses, and I never remember feeling more hopeful or moved by a speech than I did watching this one.  The American people echoed my feeling with anti-Trump CBS’ Poll finding that a 76% Super-Majority Approved of Trump’s speech.

Trump announced that “America is back” and then detailed the dizzying pace of his first 6 weeks in office.

“I declared a national emergency on our southern border and deployed the U.S. military and Border Patrol to repel the invasion of our country. As a result, illegal border crossings last month were the lowest ever recorded.”  Perhaps the best line of the night was when Trump stated “Democrats said that we needed new legislation to seal the border, but as it turned out, all we needed was …. a new president.”

He then explained he had “imposed a freeze on all federal hiring, all new federal regulations, all foreign aid and terminated the ridiculous green new scam. I withdrew from the Paris Climate Accord, which was costing us trillions of dollars that other countries were not paying. I withdrew from the corrupt World Health Organization and also from the anti-American U.N. Human Rights Council.  I have also directed that for every new regulation, ten old regulations must be eliminated.”

He also stated that he had “declared a national energy emergency.  It’s called drill, baby, drill.”  Trump also emphasized the $1.7 trillion of new investment in America since his swearing in.

Let’s review these changes.

The freeze on federal hiring and the identification by DOGE of enormous amounts of waste, fraud and corruption have, alone, already saved several hundred billion dollars.

Further, Trump’s termination of the green new scam and withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord will prevent further economic damage. It’s nonsensical to harm our economy to respond to so-called climate change when the major polluters across the world such as China and India are building new coal plants every week.

Also, Trump stated he ended the electric vehicle mandate, keeping his promise to traditional American automakers.

Trump’s mandate that for every one (1) new federal regulation imposed on American business and industry, ten (10) regulations be eliminated will powerfully strengthen and grow our national economy.

Trump also declared that federal workers must return to the office or be fired.  He then stated he had also “ended weaponized government” a/k/a as ‘lawfare,’ “where a sitting president is allowed to viciously prosecute his political opponent, like me;” that he had halted “all government censorship and brought back free speech in America.”  He also signed an order making English the official language; and he stated, “we’ve ended the tyranny of so-called Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies across the entire government.”

“You should be hired and promoted based on skill, competence, and merit, not race or gender.  We have also removed the poison of Critical Race Theory from our public schools, and I signed an order making the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female.”  He has also “signed an executive order to ban men from playing in women’s sports or the schools will lose all federal funding.”

As significant as these policy changes are, it’s the riveting way Trump portrayed them that is memorable.

Regarding the danger of allowing men to compete against women, Trump had sitting in the House gallery a young lady named Payton McNabb “who had been an all-star high school athlete preparing for a future in college sports. But when her girls volleyball match was invaded by a male, he smashed the ball so hard in Payton’s face, causing traumatic brain injury, partially paralyzing her right side and ending her athletic career.”

To emphasize the danger of illegal immigration, Trump reached two of the most emotionally compelling moments of the night as he recalled, with their mothers in attendance, Laken Riley and Jocelyn Nungaray, two young women who were murdered by illegal aliens.

I realize there are stark policy differences between the two parties, but I think Democrats damaged themselves with their disruptive, disrespectful behavior including when they could not even rise and applaud a 13-year-old boy who is battling brain cancer.  They did stand and clap for Ukraine but not America.

We are not only inspired by this address, but I believe we will look back and realize it was a spectacular blueprint for the coming years.