Trump’s GREAT BIG LONG Speech
Americast
BBC
4.2 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Sarah and Anthony pick apart Donald Trump’s biggest speech since returning to the White House.
He delivered it 24 hours after announcing he was pausing aid to Ukraine, and on the same day tariffs came in on Mexico and Canada.
He was addressing a joint session of the US Congress, declaring “the American dream is unstoppable”.
It was the the longest presidential speech to Congress on record - lasting around an hour and 40 minutes and included details of a letter from President Zelensky, his desire to get Greenland “one way or another” and Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts.
And, a Democrat is kicked out.
HOSTS: • Sarah Smith, North America Editor • Anthony Zurcher, North America Correspondent
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, it's about half past 11 at night on Tuesday in America. |
| 0:09.2 | It's about half past four in the morning on Wednesday in the UK. |
| 0:12.5 | And we're recording a special Americaast at this time because President Trump has just finished |
| 0:17.6 | giving his first major speech since he got back into the White House. |
| 0:20.9 | It's not really a state of the union address, but it was an address to Congress, setting out |
| 0:25.7 | everything he's achieved so far and what he wants to get done in the rest of his term. |
| 0:29.9 | You know, Sarah, I'm old enough to remember when presidential addresses to Congress were |
| 0:34.1 | under an hour, some even under 45 minutes. This was the longest presidential |
| 0:39.2 | speech to Congress in modern American history stretching on for more than an hour and 40 minutes. |
| 0:46.2 | It was an endurance test. It was part victory lap. It was part needling and picking on Democrats. |
| 0:53.2 | And then a laundry list of different things Donald Trump |
| 0:55.8 | says he wants to accomplish over the next three and a half years. Members of the United States, |
| 1:02.9 | Congress, thank you very much. And to my fellow citizens, America is back. |
| 1:12.9 | One of the reasons it took so long was that were quite a lot of interruptions. |
| 1:16.9 | The speaker had to get the sergeant at arms to throw out a Democratic member, Al Green, |
| 1:22.3 | who was shouting and heckling and refused to sit down. |
| 1:26.4 | Finding that members continue to engage in willful and concerted disruption of proper decorum, |
| 1:31.3 | the chair now directs the sergeant-at-arms to restore order. |
| 1:36.3 | Remove this gentleman from the chamber. |
| 1:41.3 | So Donald Trump also talked about foreign policy, talked about negotiations for peace in Ukraine. |
| 1:47.5 | All of this with the backdrop of the recent announcement that the United States was suspending aid to Ukraine pending a review. |
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