The American dream is “rise” and “America is back,” said President Donald Trump.
Trump launched the week that Americans said that his administration would work to “take America’s destination in our own hands” and promised that “this will be our biggest era” during a joint address to the Congress Tuesday.
Moreover, Trump shared in the address that Ukraine was willing to sign a rare-earth minerals deal and continue peace negotiations to end the war with Russia after conversations arrived on 28 February. Trump also claimed that his administration the terrorist behind the 2021 Afghanistan attack that resulted in the death of 13 American troops of 13 American troops.
“Tonight I am happy to announce that we have just arrested the top terrorist who is responsible for that cruelty,” Trump said Tuesday. “And he is now on his way here to face the fast sword of American justice.”
In addition, Trump insisted on the legislators on Tuesday encouraged to strengthen the financing for border security to pay the bill for deportations and along the American southern border, claiming that his administration “launched the most radical boundary and immigration in American history.”
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Vice-president JD Vance and chairman of the house Mike Johnson (R-La.) Aplaudisser while US President Donald Trump tackles a joint session of the Congress in the US Capitol on 4 March 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Trump also promised to work to end the war in Ukraine, days after a tense meeting with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zenskyy about the role of diplomacy to end the conflict with Russia. Hours earlier said Zenskyy that Ukraine was willing to come to the negotiating table, despite the disagreement in the White House.
“It’s time to end this meaningless war,” Trump said, adding that it is important to talk to both parties to end wars.
In response to his joint address, Senator Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., The agenda of Trump’s foreign policy radiatedclaim that Trump would have lost the Cold War if he had been president in the 1980s.
“We all want to put an end to the war in Ukraine, but Reagan understood that true power required America to combine our military and economic power with moral clarity,” said Slotkin, who was tapped to provide the official response of the Democratic Party to Trump’s address. “As a child of the Cold War, I am grateful that it was Reagan and not Trump in office in the 1980s. Trump would have lost us the Cold War.”
This is what happened this week:
Negotiating with Iran
Trump indicated that a nuclear deal with Iran could arise in the near future, after the efforts of his administration to restore a “maximum pressure” campaign against Tehran in February.
Trump told reporters on Friday that the US negotiates “until the last moments” with Iran, and said that he would rather move forward in a peaceful way instead of using military intervention.
“It is an interesting time in the history of the world. But we have a situation with Iran that something will happen very quickly, very, very quickly,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “You will talk about it quickly, I think. Hopefully we can have a peace agreement. I don’t speak out of strength or weakness, I just say that I prefer to see a peace agreement than the other. But the other will solve the problem.”
Trump pauses help to Ukraine after a fiery meeting with Zenskyy
President Donald Trump also indicated that he could impose heavier sanctions on Russia. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters)
Trump also revealed that he sent a letter to the supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who insists that Tehran is in accordance with a nuclear agreement or could otherwise expect Tehran Military consequences, according to a clip released from an interview with Fox Business that will be broadcast on Friday.
“I’d rather negotiate a deal,” Trump told Fox Business. “I’m not sure if everyone agrees with me, but we can close a deal that would be just as well as you won a soldier.”
Sanctions against Russia
Trump also indicated that he could impose stricter sanctions on Russia, after Russia reportedly fired 67 missiles and 194 drones in a nocturnal attack that made the energy and gas infrastructure of Ukraine, according to Reuters.
“Based on the fact that Russia is currently absolutely ‘smashing’ Ukraine on the battlefield, I am considerably considering large -scale bank sanctions, sanctions and rates about Russia until a cease -fire and definitive settlement agreement about peace,” Trump wrote about truth. “To Russia and Ukraine, now go to the table before it’s too late. Thank you !!!”
In addition, the national economic council director Kevin Hassett said reporters that Trump prepared to use “carrots or sticks” to encourage both countries to reach a peace agreement.
No more federal means for Perkins Coie
On Thursday, Trump also signed an executive order to draw safety declarations and access to certain federal means for Perkins Coie. The law firm hired the company that is responsible for drawing up the so -called “Steele file” with saliair material about Trump’s alleged connections with Russia, which denied the president.
“This is an absolute honor to sign,” Trump told reporters on Thursday. “What they have done, it’s just terrible. It is armament. You could say armament to a political opponent, and it should never happen again.”
The executive order shakes the safety tools for Perkins Coie employees to a further assessment that evaluates access to sensitive information is completed to determine whether it matches the national interest.
Trump lowers federal resources for the law firm that contributed to the Fuel 2016 Russia Hoax
President Donald Trump speaks as vice -president JD Vance, left, and house speaker Mike Johnson van LA. Listen while Trump appeals to a joint session of the congress in the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday 4 March 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Perkins Coie told Fox News Digital that it has assessed the executive order and plans to challenge it.
Marc Elias, the former chairman of the company’s political law practice, hired opposition research agency Fusion GPS in April 2016 in April 2016 to conduct opposition research into presidential candidate Trump on behalf of Trump, Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee.
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Fusion GPS then raised the help of the former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, who composed the so-called “Steele file”, with outrageous and usually non-funded allegations. However, the document was used to protect surveillance applications against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page for the FBI investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 elections.
Fox News’ Rachel Wolf and Jacqui Heinrich contributed to this report.
