On the eve of Trump’s speech to Congress, Flashbacks by 2017 at the point of “How America will look” at 250

Front President Donald Trump Tuesday night’s address to the 2017 revision of his congress addresses for 2017 shows the striking parallels and differences in the current political climate and prophetic question of what will become as America will become in his 250th birthday 2026.
During Trump’s address in 2017, with Vice -President Mike Pence And the President of the Republican House Paul Ryan behind him, Trump opened the acknowledgment of “threats aimed at centers of the Jewish community and vandalism of Jewish cemeteries” before he converted to the “Renewal of the US Spirit”.
“In nine years, the United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of our founding – 250 years from the day we declared our independence,” said Trump, who was elected to his first term in November 2016. “It will be one of the big turning points in the history of the world. But what will America look like when we will reach our 250th year?”
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President Donald Trump’s first speech in Congress on February 28, 2017. (Getty Images)
In one of his first executive actions this year, he began his second former mandate, Trump signed a “celebration of the US 250th birthday”, which “will provide Great celebration There is a valuable occasion of the 250th anniversary of US independence on July 4, 2026. “
In 2017, Trump continued his first address to the nation after Obama’s administration, promising to break an illegal immigration, implement the US foreign plan and renew the economy. Not noticeable, however, was not mentioned Including capital of diversity (dei) Not even “radical” gender ideology.
“These are some usual topics when he is talking today, and they are gone,” said Tevi Troy, president historian and former HHS secretary under the administration of George W. Bush, for Fox News Digital in an interview. “That’s not there. But aside, there is a lot of similarities, and in the beginning I read and wondered if this could be given in this administration, because there are a lot of the same things.”
“For example, he talks about the boundaries, and talks about the liberation of the American economy,” Troy said. “And so the themes are the same, but some circumstances have changed.”
President Trump gave his second inaugural speech within the Rotunda US capitol on January 20, 2025. (Fox News)
While joint addresses Congress And he speaks in the federal state usually written in advance, Trump is known for talking about cuff. Troy said Trump could perform an explosive oval office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday.
“I could see that he was coming as an improvised moment, but he probably wasn’t written in speech,” he said.
In addition, inflation will be on the mind of people to come Tuesday night.
“No one will blame Trump for Dei or wake up or problems from bidet,“Troy said.” At some point, it’s in danger of blaming him for inflation. So, he has to deal with it a little more carefully. “
Trump’s address for 2017 did not include inflation, but he mentions the re -launch of “the engine of the American economy – making business business in the United States, and it is much harder for companies to leave our country.”
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Melania Trump kisses former president Donald Trump after completing his speech on a Republican national convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 18, 2024. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
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So far, Trump has signed a number of executive orders this year, many aimed at strengthening American production and domestic economy, as well as removal of the US from the world’s climate changes.