New Delhi:
Former President Donald Trump delivered a speech on Wednesday at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida as he inched closer to victory in the recently-concluded US election, vowing to heal the country.
Here are the key decisions and statements from the address:
- America’s borders will be sealed immediately, allowing no illegal immigrants to enter the country.
- Hinting at the ongoing Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas-Lebanon conflict, Mr Trump said, “Won’t start a war, will end one.”
- Referring to federal income tax, he said his administration will be reducing taxes.
- Amid chants of “Bobby, Bobby”, Mr Trump said vaccine skeptic Robert F Kennedy Jr would “make America healthy again.” “He wants to do some things, and we’re going to let him go to it,” he said, while looking at Kennedy, who has said in the past that he expects a prominent role in overseeing federal health agencies.
- “Leave the oil to me,” Mr Trump quipped, referring to Robert F Kennedy Jr’s career as an environmental lawyer who opposed big oil. “He’s a great guy, and he really means that he wants to do some things, and we’re going to let him go to it. I just said, ‘But Bobby, leave the oil to me,'” he told his supporters.
- Referring to the two assassination attempts on him during the election campaign, he said, “Many people have told me that God spared my life for a reason, and that reason was to save our country.”
- Mr Trump promised a golden age of America and vowed to fight for the country “every single day”. “America’s future will be bigger, better, bolder, richer, safer, and stronger than it has ever been before,” he said.
- In a shoutout to tech billionaire Elon Musk, he called the SpaceX and Tesla founder a “new star”. “We have to protect our geniuses. We don’t have that many of them. We have to protect our super geniuses,” he said.
