Trump SOTU #3

1. What issues does President Trump identify as bipartisan (both parties support them) issues?

• American jobs, free trade, the nation's infrastructure, reducing the price of health care and prescription drugs, creating a safe and secure immigration system, and foreign policy that puts America first.

2. Which amazing NASA bureaucrat was honored during the speech?!

• Buzz Aldrin.

3. What economic achievements did President Trump focus on early in his speech?

• How they created 5.3 million new jobs, 5 million Americans have been taken off food stamps, lowest unemployment rate in half a century, tax cuts, and how they eliminated the "very unpopular" Obamacare individual mandate penalty.

4. What impact has the Trump administration had on the regulatory agencies?

• He has lowered regulations so they are not doing as much.

5. Which of the president's judicial powers does Trump mention using in the past year?

• Commuting a prison sentence.

6. What policy proposal does Trump focus on?  In what ways does he justify the need for this policy?

• Building the wall (curbing illegal immigration). He says we need it because of sexual assault cases, drug cartels, human traffickers, reduced jobs, lower wages, crowded schools and hospitals, increased crime and gang violence, and a "depleted social safety net". 

7. What achievement of women in government does Trump recognize?

• More women serving in Congress than there has ever been.

8. What trade policies has Trump changed since he's been in office?

• Imposing tariffs on Chinese goods and he is wanting to replace NAFTA with U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

9. What policy proposals does Trump talk about that would impact health care in the US?

• Lower the cost of healthcare and prescription drugs and protect people with pre-existing conditions.

10. What foreign policy proposals does Trump discuss?

•  U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) to replace NAFTA and United States Reciprocal Trade Act to place the same tariff that countries would place on American products on their products. He also says that the US is leaving the INF treaty and that troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan and Syria and to confront counter-terrorism. He also says the US will confront Iran.

11. What nation does Trump identify as the number one national security threat to the US?

• Russia

12. Why does the crowd sing Happy Birthday?!

• It was Judah Samet's 81st birthday. Judah Samet is a Pittsburgh synagogue massacre survivor and he also survived a Nazi concentration camp more than 7 decades ago.