President Trump's Second State of the Union Address (2019)

As part of our commitment to improving opportunity for women everywhere, this Thursday we are launching the first ever Government-wide initiative focused on economic empowerment for women in developing countries.

The agenda I will lay out this evening is not a Republican agenda or a Democrat agenda.

Many of us campaigned on the same core promises: to defend American jobs and demand fair trade for American workers; to rebuild and revitalize our Nation's infrastructure; to reduce the price of healthcare and prescription drugs; to create an immigration system that is safe, lawful, modern and secure; and to pursue a foreign policy that puts America's interests first.

In the 20th century, America saved freedom, transformed science, and redefined the middle class standard of living for the entire world to see.

As we work to defend our people's safety, we must also ensure our economic resurgence continues at a rapid pace.

Many of us campaigned on the same core promises: to defend American jobs and demand fair trade for American workers; to rebuild and revitalize our Nation's infrastructure; to reduce the price of healthcare and prescription drugs; to create an immigration system that is safe, lawful, modern and secure; and to pursue a foreign policy that puts America's interests first.

Many of us campaigned on the same core promises: to defend American jobs and demand fair trade for American workers; to rebuild and revitalize our Nation's infrastructure; to reduce the price of healthcare and prescription drugs; to create an immigration system that is safe, lawful, modern and secure; and to pursue a foreign policy that puts America's interests first.

To build on our incredible economic success, one priority is paramount -- reversing decades of calamitous trade policies.

Together, we can break decades of political stalemate.

But I don't blame China for taking advantage of us -- I blame our leaders and representatives for allowing this travesty to happen.

We will not avert our eyes from a regime that chants "Death to America" and threatens genocide against the Jewish people.

Meanwhile, working class Americans are left to pay the price for mass illegal migration -- reduced jobs, lower wages, overburdened schools and hospitals, increased crime, and a depleted social safety net.

This is the time to rekindle the bonds of love and loyalty and memory that link us together as citizens, as neighbors, as patriots.

Therefore, we recently imposed tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese goods -- and now our Treasury is receiving billions of dollars a month from a country that never gave us a dime.

Over the last 2 years, my Administration has moved with urgency and historic speed to confront problems neglected by leaders of both parties over many decades.

Alice's story underscores the disparities and unfairness that can exist in criminal sentencing -- and the need to remedy this injustice.

Now is the time for bipartisan action.

Just months ago, 11 Jewish-Americans were viciously murdered in an anti-semitic attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.

When American soldiers set out beneath the dark skies over the English Channel in the early hours of D-Day, 1944, they were just young men of 18 and 19, hurtling on fragile landing craft toward the most momentous battle in the history of war.

We stand with the Venezuelan people in their noble quest for freedom -- and we condemn the brutality of the Maduro regime, whose socialist policies have turned that nation from being the wealthiest in South America into a state of abject poverty and despair.

Our approach is based on principled realism -- not discredited theories that have failed for decades to yield progress.

This legislation reformed sentencing laws that have wrongly and disproportionately harmed the African-American community.

America was founded on liberty and independence --- not government coercion, domination, and control.

Our country is vibrant and our economy is thriving like never before.

In just over 2 years since the election, we have launched an unprecedented economic boom -- a boom that has rarely been seen before.