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中英对照:特朗普首次国会演讲
Remarks by President Trump in Joint
Address to Congress
U.S. Capitol,
Washington, D.C.
February 28, 2017
Thank you very much. Mr. Speaker, Mr.
Vice President, members of Congress, the
First Lady of the United States
–
(applause)
–
and citizens of America:
Tonight, as we mark the conclusion of
our
celebration
of Black
History Month, we
are reminded of our
nation’s path towards civil
rights
and the work that
still remains
to be done. (Applause.)
Recent threats targeting Jewish
community
centers and
vandalism of Jewish cemeteries, as well
as last week’s shooting in Kansas City,
remind us that while we may be a nation
divided on policies, we are a country that
stands united in
condemn
ing hate and evil in
all of its very ugly forms. (Applause.)
Each American generation passes the
torch of truth, liberty and justice in an
unbroken chain all the way down to the
present
. That torch is now
in our hands. And
we will use it to
light up the world. I am here tonight to deliver a
message of unity
and strength, and it
is a message deeply delivered from my heart. A new
chapter
–
(applause)
–
of
American Greatness is now beginning. A new
national pride is
sweeping across our
nation. And a new surge of optimism is placing
im
possible
dreams
firmly within our grasp.
What we are
witness
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witness
ing
today is the
renewal of the American
spirit. Our allies will find that America is once
again ready
to lead. (Applause.) All
the nations of the world
–
friend or foe
–
will find
that
America is strong, America is
proud, and America is free.
In nine
years, the United States will
celebrate
the 250th
anniversary
of our founding
–
250 years since the day we
declared our independence. It will be one of the
great
milestones in the history of the
world. But what will America look like as we reach
our 250th year? What kind of country
will we leave for our children?
I will
not allow the mistakes of recent decades past to
define the course of our future.
For
too long, we’ve watched our middle
cla
ss
shrink
as we’ve exported our jobs and
wealth to
foreign
countries. We’ve financed and built one
global project after
another, but
ignored the fates of our children in the inner
cities of Chicago,
Baltimore, Detroit,
and so many other places throughout our land.
We’ve defended the borders of other
nations
while leaving our own borders
wide
open for anyone to cross and for
drugs to pour in at a now unprecedented rate. And
we’ve spent trillions and trillions of
dollars overseas, while our
infrastructure
at
home has so badly crumbled.
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Then, in 2016, the Earth
shifted beneath our feet. The rebellion started as
a quiet
protest
, spoken by
families of all colors and creeds
–
families who just wanted a
fair
shot for their children and a fair
hearing for their concerns.
But then
the quiet voices became a loud chorus as thousands
of citizens now spoke
out together,
from cities small and large, all across our
country. Finally, the chorus
became an
earthquake
, and the people
turned out by the tens of millions, and they
were all united by one very simple, but
crucial demand: that America must put its
own citizens first. Because only then
can we truly make America great again.
(Applause.)
Dying industries
will come roaring back to life. Heroic veterans
will get the care they
so desperately
need. Our
military
will be
given the re
source
s its
brave warriors so
richly deserve.
Crumbling
infrastructure
will be replaced with new roads, bridges,
tunnels, airports and railways gleaming
across our very, very beautiful land. Our
terrible drug epidemic will slow down
and, ultimately, stop. And our neglected inner
cities will see a rebirth of hope,
safety and opportunity. Above all else, we will
keep
our promises to the American
people. (Applause.)
It’s been a little
over a month since my inauguration, and I want to
take this moment
to update the nation
on the progress I’ve made in keeping those
promises.
Since my election,
Ford, Fiat-Chrysler, General Motors, Sprint,
Softbank, Lockheed,
Intel, Walmart and
many others have announced that they will invest
billions and
billions of dollars in the
United States, and will create tens of thousands
of new
American jobs. (Applause.)
The
stockmarket
has gained almost $$3 trillion in value since the
election on
November 8th, a record.
We’ve saved taxpayers hundreds of millions of
dollars by
bringing down the price of a
fantastic
–
and it is a
fantastic
–
new F-35 jet
fighter,
and we’ll be saving
billio
ns more on contracts all across
our
government
. We have
placed a hiring freeze on
non-
military
and non-
essential federal workers.
We have
begun to drain the swamp of
government
corruption by
imposing a
five-year ban on lobbying by
executive branch officials and a lifetime ban
–
(applause)
–
thank you
–
and a lifetime ban on
becoming lobbyists for a
foreigngovernment
.
We have undertaken a historic
effort
to massively reduce
job-crushing regulations,
creating a
deregulation task force inside of every
government
agency.
(Applause.)
And we’re imposing
a new rule which mandates that for
every one new regulation,
two old
regulations must be
eliminate
d. (Applause.)
We’re going to stop the
regulations
that threaten the future and livelihood of our
great coal miners.
(Applause.)
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We have
cleared the way for the construction of the
Keystone and Dakota Access
Pipelines
–
(applause)
–
thereby
creating tens of thousands of jobs. And I’ve
issued a
new directive that new
American pipelines be made with American
steel
. (Applause.)
We have withdrawn the United States
from the job-killing Trans-Pacific Partnership.
(Applause.) And with the help of Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau, we have formed a
council
with our
neighbor
s in Canada to help
ensure that women entrepreneurs have
access to the networks,
market
s and capital they
need to start a business and live
out
their financial dreams. (Applause.)
To
protect our citizens, I have directed the
Department of Justice to form a Task
Force on Reducing Violent Crime. I have
further ordered the Departments of
Homeland Security and Justice, along
with the Department of State and the Director
of National Intelligence, to coordinate
an aggressive strategy to dismantle the
criminal cartels that have spread all
across our nation. (Applause.) We will stop the
drugs from pouring into our country and
poisoning our youth, and we will expand
treatment for those who have become so
badly addicted. (Applause.)
At the same
time, my administration has answered the pleas of
the American people
for immigration
enforce
ment and border
security. (Applause.) By finally enforcing
our immigration laws, we will raise
wages, help the unemployed, save billions and
billions of dollars, and make our
communities safer for everyone. (Applause.) We
want all Americans to succeed, but that
can’t happen in an
environment
of lawless
chaos. We must restore integrity and
the rule of law at our borders. (Applause.)
For that reason, we will soon begin the
construction of a great, great wall along our
southern border. (Applause.) As we
speak tonight, we are removing gang members,
drug dealers, and criminals that
threaten our communities and prey on our very
innocent citizens. Bad ones are going
out as I speak, and as I promised throughout
the
campaign
.
To any in Congress who do not believe
we should
enforce
our laws,
I would ask you
this one question: What
would you say to the American family that loses
their jobs,
their income, or their
loved one because America refused to uphold its
laws and
defend its borders?
(Applause.)
Our obligation is to serve,
protect, and defend the citizens of the United
States. We
are also taking strong
measures to protect our nation from radical
Islamic
terror
ism.
(Applause.) According to data provided
by the Department of Justice, the vast
majority of individuals convicted of
terror
ism and
terror
ism-related offenses
since
9/11 came here from outside of
our country. We have seen the attacks at home
–
from Boston to
San Bernardino to the Pentagon, and, yes, even the
World Trade
Center.
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