Trumps first few weeks, in my opinion, have been a disaster, from his political adviser publically endorsing Ivanka Trump’s clothing line to his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, resigning due to controversy by discussing the sanctions to the Russian ambassador.

But it was his first address to congress that many viewed as his first real step as the President of the United States. A poll from CNN shows that 7 out of 10 who watched Trump’s speech became optimistic for the Trump Presidency. During his speech, Trump covered the “great things” his administration has done on immigration and national security. He went off topic to give an ovation to the widow of the fallen U.S. Navy SEAL soldier, Ryan Owen. He then went back to talk about his proposal to congress, as he wanted one trillion dollars to fix the American Economy and that he wants to repeal ObamaCare.

Throughout his speech, many democrats expressed their feelings. Two female democrats each gave a thumbs down during the part of the speech where Trump wanted to repeal Obamacare. Although many thought his speech was good, Trump had left out major details in his speech as he has discussed nothing about research about cancer, as he planned to cut about 43 billion dollars in other branches and to increase the defense spending by 56 billion dollars.

But how is Trump going to find cures for diseases if he is going to cut many government branches? This is not the norm for Trump as the American people are used to his tweeting, but many dems say this isn’t good enough as he left out key details that he discussed during his campaign. In conclusion, the future is shaky for the American people, because Trump is not laying out his whole plan to the American people.


<Joseph Kim Granada Hills Charter HS9th Grade>