00:00Well, our international affairs editor, of course, former Washington correspondent, Ketab Angorjistani, is with me here on the set.
00:06Ketab, analyze the speech for me. What did you get out of it?
00:09Well, really, the main takeaway for me was that Donald Trump did what his team, and especially his chief of
00:16staff, Susie Wall,
00:17has been trying to get him to do for months now, which is focus on domestic issues, focus on the
00:24economy, focus on immigration.
00:26And he did pretty much that. Why the economy and immigration? Because those were two of his biggest strengths during
00:34the campaign.
00:35That's what brought him back to the White House. But these two issues are also the two issues on which
00:40he has lost a lot of ground in this first year in office.
00:44So he focused on the economy. He talked a lot about how great the U.S. economy was doing.
00:51But he gave little, new, concrete proposals and sort of fell back into the trap of Joe Biden,
00:58which is touting how great the economy is doing while Americans don't feel it and feel like they're struggling to
01:05make ends meet.
01:07The focus on immigration, he focused quite a bit on closing down the border,
01:12which is the part of his immigration policy that Americans still support.
01:16He stayed pretty clear of the sort of domestic immigration crackdown through ICE,
01:23through Customs and Border Protection, because that is the part that is less something that people actually like.
01:32But he was surprisingly disciplined, surprisingly on-prompter.
01:37We know that Donald Trump usually likes to riff off and go on tangent.
01:41He didn't do that too often. Even in his comments about the Supreme Court,
01:46everybody was looking to that to see how he was going to react.
01:50And he was pretty tame when it came to talking about that ruling on tariffs.
01:56He didn't personally attack any of the judges, simply saying that it was an unfortunate decision.
02:02What was very clear is that the message from Republicans and from his team was pivot to domestic.
02:09And what was really missing from the speech was foreign policy for a president who has met with so many
02:17foreign leaders,
02:18taken so many trips abroad.
02:19There was very, very little on foreign policy, little on what he's planning on doing with Iran,
02:27and barely a mention of Ukraine on the fourth anniversary of the Russian invasion.
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