Democracy Now! 2025-03-05 Wednesday
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🗓️ 5 March 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for March 05, 2025; “A Declaration of War Against the American People”: Ralph Nader on Trump’s Address to Congress; Fact-Check: Juan González on Trump’s “Outrageous” Lies About Panama Canal; “Deporting Immigrants Like Me Won’t Make Eggs Cheaper or Your Family Safer”: Erika Andiola on Trump; “Betrayal”: Canadian Researcher Responds to Trump’s Tariffs & Trade War Amid Fears of Recession; “War on Trans People”: Transgender Journalist Imara Jones Responds to Trump’s Speech; Why NJ Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman Brought a Doctor Who Worked in Gaza as Her Guest to Trump’s Speech
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:18.5 | We have accomplished more in 43 days than most administrations accomplished in four years or |
| 0:25.5 | eight years. |
| 0:26.6 | And we are just getting started. |
| 0:30.8 | President Trump addressed a joint session of Congress in the longest presidential speech to a joint session of Congress in modern history. |
| 0:41.8 | It clocked in at 100 minutes. |
| 0:44.5 | He praised Elon Musk, vowed to take control of Greenland, defended his sweeping tariffs, |
| 0:49.0 | and repeatedly attacked the trans and immigrant communities. |
| 0:52.3 | Democrats held up signs and protest reading, this is not normal, save Medicaid and immigrant communities. Democrats held up signs and protest reading, |
| 0:55.0 | this is not normal, save Medicaid and Musk steals. |
| 0:59.1 | One Democrat, Al Green of Texas, |
| 1:01.4 | was removed from the chamber for protesting Trump. |
| 1:05.2 | The chair now directs the sergeant in arms to restore order. |
| 1:11.3 | Remove this gentleman from the chamber. |
| 1:14.8 | From green to Greenland, we'll hear excerpts of Trump's speech and go to Washington, |
| 1:20.3 | Ottawa, and Phoenix for response. |
| 1:22.7 | All that and more coming up. |
| 1:29.4 | Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the Warren Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 1:36.3 | Donald Trump delivered the longest presidential address in modern history to a joint session |
| 1:41.3 | of Congress Tuesday night, laying out his vision for the next four |
| 1:44.3 | years while defending his efforts to dismantle large portions of the federal government. |
| 1:49.7 | For 100 minutes, an hour and 40 minutes, Trump repeatedly lied and exaggerated about his |
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