09:15 President Trump: As long as we as long as we are proud of who we are, and what we are fighting for, there is nothing we cannot achieve.
09:03 US President Donald Trump has ended his first State of the Union address.
08:57 President Donald Trump: My duty, and the sacred duty of every elected official in this chamber, is to defend Americans, to protect their safety, their families, their communities and their right to the American Dream because Americans are dreamers, too.
08:48 President Donald Trump, has said that he has signed an order directing Secretary Jim Mattis "to reexamine our military detention policy and to keep open the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay."
08:41 President Trump: We must rebuild our nuclear arsenal.
08:37 "In the end, we will succeed, we will prevail," President Trump says as audience applauds him at the Capitol Hill.
08:33 President Trump has outlined 4 pillars of his immigration plan:
> Path to citizenship for 1.8 million illegal immigrants brought here at a young age
> Fully secure the border
> End green card visa lottery
> End chain migration
08:30 "For decades, open borders have allowed drugs and gangs to pour into our most vulnerable communities. They have allowed millions of low-wage workers to compete for jobs and wages against the poorest Americans," President Trump has said at the Capitol Hill.
08:28 "The United States is a compassionate nation. We are proud that we do more than any other country to help the needy, the struggling and the underprivileged all over the world," President Trump has said in his SOTU address.
08:25 President Trump: We want every American to know the dignity of a hard day's work. We can lift our citizens from welfare to work, from dependence to independence, and from poverty to prosperity.
08:19 President Trump: We will work to fix bad trade deals and negotiate new ones. And we will protect American workers and American intellectual property, through strong enforcement of our trade rules.
08:18 Tonight, I am calling on the Congress to produce a bill that provides USD 1.2 trillion to work on the infrastructure we so desperately need: President Trump.
"We will build gleaming new roads, bridges, highways, railways and waterways across our land. And we will do it with American heart, American hands and American grit," Trump has added.
08:16 President Trump has said that one of his "greatest priorities is to reduce the price of prescription drugs."
08:12 President Trump: We are totally defending our Second Amendment and have taken historic action to protect religious liberty.
08:10 Earlier in his address, US President Donald Trump honoured 12-year-old Preston Sharp who started a movement that has placed 40,000 flags on the graves of soldiers.
08:08 In America, we know that faith and family, not government and bureaucracy, are the center of the American life: President Trump
08:06 We repealed the core of disastrous Obamacare. The individual mandate is now gone: President Trump
08:00 "This is our new American moment. There has never been a better time to start living the American Dream," says President Trump in his SOTU address, amidst applause from the audience.
07:55 "Since the election, we have created 2.4 million new jobs," President Trump has said in his address.
07:52 "African-American unemployment stands at the lowest rate ever recorded. Hispanic rate of unemployment has also reached the lowest level in history," Trump has said in his State of the Union Address.
07:50 Donald Trump: "Tonight, I call upon all of us to set aside our differences, to seek out common ground, and to summon the unity we need to deliver for the people we were elected to serve".
07:49 United States President Donald Trump is making his first State of the Union address.
PresidentTrump: As long as we as long as we are proud of who we are, and what we are fighting for, there is nothing we cannot achieve.
US President Donald Trump has ended his first State of the Union address.
Democratic members of Congress wearing kente cloths in honor of countries allegedly disparaged by USPresident Donald Trump listen to his State of the Union address to a joint session of the USCongress on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Reuters)
President Donald Trump: My duty, and the sacred duty of every elected official in this chamber, is to defend Americans, to protect their safety, their families, their communities and their right to the American Dream because Americans are dreamers, too.
President Donald Trump, has said that he has signed an order directing Secretary Jim Mattis "to reexamine our military detention policy and to keep open the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay."
President Trump: We must rebuild our nuclear arsenal.
"In the end, we will succeed, we will prevail," President Trump says as audience applauds him at the Capitol Hill.
President Trump has outlined 4 pillars of his immigration plan:
> Path to citizenship for 1.8 million illegal immigrants brought here at a young age
> Fully secure the border
> End green card visa lottery
> End chain migration
"For decades, open borders have allowed drugs and gangs to pour into our most vulnerable communities. They have allowed millions of low-wage workers to compete for jobs and wages against the poorest Americans," President Trump has said at the Capitol Hill.
"The United States is a compassionate nation. We are proud that we do more than any other country to help the needy, the struggling and the underprivileged all over the world," President Trump has said in his SOTU address.
President Trump: We want every American to know the dignity of a hard day's work. We can lift our citizens from welfare to work, from dependence to independence, and from poverty to prosperity.
President Trump: We will work to fix bad trade deals and negotiate new ones. And we will protect American workers and American intellectual property, through strong enforcement of our trade rules.
Tonight, I am calling on the Congress to produce a bill that provides USD 1.2 trillion to work on the infrastructure we so desperately need: President Trump.
"We will build gleaming new roads, bridges, highways, railways and waterways across our land. And we will do it with American heart, American hands and American grit," Trump has added.
President Trump has said that one of his "greatest priorities is to reduce the price of prescription drugs."
President Trump: We are totally defending our Second Amendmentand have taken historic action to protect religious liberty.
Earlier in his address, US President Donald Trump honoured 12-year-old Preston Sharp who started a movement that has placed 40,000 flags on the graves of soldiers.
In America, we know that faith and family, not government and bureaucracy, are the center of the American life: President Trump
We repealed the core of disastrous Obamacare. The individual mandate is now gone: President Trump
USPresident Donald Trump waves as he arrives to deliver his first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress inside the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Reuters)
"This is our new American moment. There has never been a better time to start living the American Dream," says President Trump in his SOTU address, amidst applause from the audience.
"Since the election, we have created 2.4 million new jobs," President Trump has said in his address.
"African-American unemployment stands at the lowest rate ever recorded. Hispanic rate of unemployment has also reached the lowest level in history," Trump has said in his State of the Union Address.
Donald Trump: "Tonight, I call upon all of us to set aside our differences, to seek out common ground, and to summon the unity we need to deliver for the people we were elected to serve".
United States President Donald Trump is making his first State of the Union address.
