On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump delivered his second State of the Union address before a joint session of the US Congress.
Jacqueline Luqman, the co-editor-in-chief of Luqman Nation, joined Radio Sputnik’s Loud & Clear Tuesday to discuss Trump’s speech.
Trump promised to get funding for southern border security, also noting that he has already sent Congress a “common sense proposal” during his Tuesday address.
“In the past, most of the people in this room voted for a wall — but the proper wall never got built. I’ll get it built,” Trump told Congress, adding that the border wall with Mexico to curb illegal immigration will be “a smart, strategic, see-through steel barrier — not just a simple concrete wall.”
“Legal immigrants enrich our nation and strengthen our society in countless ways,” the president said. “I want people to come into our country in the largest numbers ever, but they have to come in legally.”
According to Luqman, Trump’s speech appeared to be more him making a case for declaring a national emergency in a couple weeks than a typical State of the Union speech.
“That wasn’t a State of the Union address,” Luqman told hosts John Kiriakou, Brian Becker and Walter Smolarek.
