President Donald Trump campaigned as a champion of free speech, but First Amendment advocates say they’ve never seen freedom of speech under attack the way it has been in his second term.

In a speech to Congress in his first weeks in office, the president laid out his vision to remake U.S. policy on the military, trade, immigration and foreign aid.

According to a recent Gallup poll, Trump’s approval rating since taking office is 46%, which is five points higher than the average approval rating he had during his first term. After one month in office, Trump scored a 44% approval rating, according to a poll from Reuters/Ipsos.

Presidents generally deliver high-profile speeches to Congress shortly after their inauguration, and the distinction may make little difference.

President Trump will address a joint session of Congress at 9:10 p.m. ET. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) invited Trump to give the address in a Jan. 25 letter. The Wall Street Journal will lives

President Donald Trump will give his first address to Congress on March 4, 2025. Here’s everything to know about President Trump’s speech, including what it’s about and how to watch it.

President Trump concluded just before 11 p.m., making it the longest speech ever delivered in a joint address—whether a State of the Union address or the similar-style speech that presidents give in their first year.

President Donald Trump in his joint address to Congress Tuesday vowed to keep up his campaign of “swift and unrelenting action” in reorienting the nation’s economy, immigration and foreign policy, leaving Democratic legislators to register their dissent with stone faces,