President Donald Trump addressed a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, six weeks into his historic return to the White House.
During the speech, Trump said "America is back" and defended the tariffs on key U.S. trading partners. He touched on immigration and the mineral deal with Ukraine, but neglected to go into detail on his economic plan. The speech was also met with protests and disruptions from Democrats.
ABC News, along with PolitiFact, is live fact-checking Trump's speech statements that are exaggerated, need more context or are false.
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Marc Fogel, an American history teacher who was released from a Russian prison last month after four years detainment, is in attendance at tonight's speech.
Trump said he promised Fogel's mother "that we would bring her boy safely back home."
"After 22 days in office, I did just that," he said.
As Trump finally turned to talking about Russia and Ukraine, Democrats clapped when he said the U.S. has sent billions of dollars to support Ukraine's defense.
"Do you want to keep it going for another five years? Yeah, yeah, you would say, Pocahontas says 'yes,'" he said. The reference is a callback to his 2018 taunt of Sen. Elizabeth Warren as she ran for president.
The camera then panned to Warren, who was wearing her signature blue suit. Warren clapped throughout Trump's jab.
Ukraine came up 90 minutes into the speech and Trump provided an update following last week's blow up in the Oval Office.
He claimed Zelenskyy sent him a letter today indicating that he was ready to come back to the negotiating table and was willing to sign the agreement to give the U.S. Ukraine's rare materials.
"Wouldn't that be beautiful? Wouldn't that be beautiful? It's time to stop this madness," Trump said.
Trump asked Congress to help fund "golden dome" over the U.S. akin to Israel's Iron Dome defense system.
But experts told ABC News it wouldn't make much sense for the nation's national security, with allies located to the north and south and oceans on both sides.
