During his joint address to Congress on Tuesday night, President Donald Trump laid out his vision for the next four years and carefully revised the legacy of his first seven weeks in office.

Amid a slew of actions to chill speech and root out political opponents from federal agencies, Trump claimed that his administration had “stopped all government censorship and brought back free speech in America.” Earlier on Tuesday, Trump threatened to cut funding from schools that allow “illegal” protests.

“Our country will be woke no longer,” Trump said to applause after he celebrated orders making English the official language of the U.S. and renaming the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America. He cheered the Supreme Court’s ending of affirmative action and his administration’s efforts to “remove the poison of critical race theory from our public schools” and make it the official policy of the U.S. “that there are only two genders.”

In practice, Trump has accomplished those tasks by ending federal environmental protections for minority communities, making it easier for employers to discriminate based on race, stripping money from schools that teach about racial inequality and threatening to upend programs that provide

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