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Swift and unrelenting that's how Donald
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Trump characterized his first 43 days in
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office in a 2-hour address to Congress
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last night and that's certainly how it's
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felt to us here in Europe as the reality
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of America First has begun to sink in so
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what are the key takeaways from the
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speech well of most significance to us
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here in the UK is they appeared to put a
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minerals deal for Ukraine back on the
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table he read aloud from a letter from
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Vladimir zinski in which the president
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said that no one wants peace more than
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the ukrainians however he made clear
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that he is also talking to Russia and
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said that $350 billion America spent on
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military aid to Ukraine was like taking
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candy from a baby so where does that
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leave us well it's clear that Trump does
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not see this war in moral terms he
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doesn't care that Russia invaded a
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sovereign neighboring country he just
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wants the war to end and for America to
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profit and given that he's the most
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powerful man in the world that does
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leave the rest of us in the west looking
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about as impotent and humiliated as the
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Democrats in Congress who held up
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pathetic little signs throughout the
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speech saying things like this is not
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and as if to underline how tangential
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the war in Europe is to Trump the vast
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majority of the speech was devoted to
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the US economy he gave a shout out to
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Elon Musk whose Department of government
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efficiency he said has already
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identified billions of dollars of waste
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and he cited examples like $10 million
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for male circumcision in mosan Beek and
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8 million for making mice transgender
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and he also reiterated his commitments
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to tariffs he has already imposed a 25%
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import tax on goods from Canada and
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Mexico as well as a 10% l on China and
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he said that he will move ahead with
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further tariffs on Europe and Elsewhere
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on the 2nd of April now this is where
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the Trump project could come unstuck
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inflation is still high in America
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making Americans feel poorer all the
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time and ultimately it's those American
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consumers who will end up paying the
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price for these taxes Trump talks about
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a golden age for America but he appears
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to have forgotten that it's free trade
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that made his country great in the first
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place oh and if all that wasn't enough
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he also said he's going to plant an
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and that he's just getting started
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