Since taking the oath of office six weeks ago, President Trump has moved so quickly to put his stamp on government policies that one could be forgiven for having missed an action or two he’s taken.

Not to worry — in his Tuesday evening speech to a joint session of Congress, he opened with a quick recap — and what a recap it was.

As Trump spoke of his actions in office — nearly 100 executive orders signed, and more than 400 executive actions taken — he demonstrated how important is the choice Americans make every four years. In just 43 days, he reminded us, he’s issued executive orders declaring a national emergency on our southern border; deployed the U.S. military and Border Patrol to end the invasion of our country; frozen all federal hiring, all new federal regulations, and all foreign aid; terminated what he called “the ridiculous ‘green new scam’”; withdrawn from the Paris Climate Accord, the World Health Organization, and the U.N. Human Rights Council; ended former President Biden’s environmental restrictions, including his “insane electric vehicle mandate”; and directed that for every new regulation, 10 old regulations must first be eliminated.

And that was just at the top of the speech.

Trump spoke for 99 minutes, breaking Bill Clinton’s record for the longest presidential speech to a joint session of Congress, yet he left his audience hungry for more.

An example: An early applause line echoed a taunt from the campaign trail: “The media and our friends in the Democrat Party kept saying we needed new legislation to secure the border,”........

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