Freshman Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin delivered the Democrats’ response to President Trump’s address to Congress on Tuesday.
President Trump spoke for roughly one hour and forty minutes. Slotkin spoke for roughly ten minutes.
“We just went through another fraught election season,” said Slotkin, acknowledging the brutal loss and attacking President Trump as anti-Democracy.
During her speech, Stotkin attacked President Trump, attacking his “Peace Through Strength” slogan inspired by Ronald Reagan and saying that Reagan is “rolling in his grave” after President Trump stood up for America and kicked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky out of the White House.
However, as The Gateway Pundit reported, Zelensky came begging for a truce after President Trump showed more strength by cutting off military aid to Ukraine if they want to fight an endless war. She then compared Zelensky’s outburst and refusal to sign an already agreed upon peace agreement and minerals deal in the Oval Office to “a bad episode of reality TV.”
She further claimed that “Trump would have lost us the Cold War” and said an obvious lie that “he doesn’t believe we’re an exceptional nation.”
WATCH:
Slotkin: Today’s world is deeply interconnected. Migration, cyber threats, AI, environmental destruction, terrorism. One nation cannot face these issues alone. We need friends in all corners, and our safety depends on it.
President Trump loves to say, peace through strength. That’s actually a line he stole from Ronald Reagan.
But let me tell you, after the spectacle that just took place in the Oval Office last week, Reagan must be rolling in his grave.
We all want an end to the war in Ukraine, but Reagan understood that true strength required America to combine our military and economic might with moral clarity. And that scene in the Oval Office wasn’t just a bad episode of reality TV.
It summed up Trump’s whole approach to the world. He believes in cozying up to dictators like Vladimir Putin and kicking our friends like the Canadians in the teeth. He sees American leadership as merely a series of real estate transactions.
As a Cold War kid, I’m thankful it was Reagan and not Trump in office in the 1980s. Trump would have lost us the Cold War. Donald Trump’s actions suggest that in his heart, he doesn’t believe we’re an exceptional nation.
He clearly doesn’t think we should lead the world. Look, America is not perfect, but I stand with the majority of Americans who believe we are still exceptional, unparalleled, and I would rather have American leadership over Chinese or Russian leadership any day of the week.
Slotkin also criticized President Trump’s tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China and reciprocal tariffs across the board.
“His tariffs on allies like Canada will raise prices on energy, lumber, and cars and start a trade war that will hurt manufacturing and farmers,” she claimed while ignoring the nearly two trillion dollars in manufacturing investments that President Trump has already secured as a result of the tariffs.
Later in her response, Slotkin put out a call to activists to “[fight] for this Democracy” and protest, likely violently.
Watch her full response below:
The White House issued a response to Slotkin’s remarks:
“Slotkin voted against overturning Biden’s tailpipe emissions rule, a rule that would force automakers to sell more electric vehicles, killing auto manufacturing jobs. President Trump stood up for American consumers and autoworkers and repealed this de facto electric vehicle mandate.
- Slotkin voted against congressional disapproval of Biden’s EPA rule seeking to limit tailpipe emissions.
- The House Budget Committee called the regulation “a de facto ban on the sale of gas-powered and traditional hybrid vehicles.”
- Research shows that EV mandates would kill thousands of jobs:
- America First Policy Institute: New Report Exposes Biden-Harris’s Proposed EV Mandates to Cost 200,000 American Jobs
- “The Midwest will suffer the most, with Michigan (-37,000), Indiana (-24,000), and Ohio (-21,000) facing the highest job losses.”
- A UAW study from 2019 projected that EVs would kill 35,000 jobs at its plants.
Slotkin has repeatedly voted for open borders. President Trump has moved swiftly to secure our borders with attempted crossings in February at the lowest number ever recorded.
- In May 2023, Slotkin voted against the H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act.
- In February 2019, Slotkin voted to terminate President Trump’s declaration of an emergency at the southern border.
- In March 2019, Slotkin again voted again to terminate the declaration in an attempt to override President Trump’s veto.
- In July 2024, Slotkin voted against a resolution “Strongly condemning the Biden Administration and its Border Czar, Kamala Harris’s, failure to secure the United States border.”
- Slotkin said, “I don’t believe that anyone really thinks a wall from sea to shining sea is needed to make us safer.”
Slotkin is just another out-of-touch politician that wants to hollow out American manufacturing and let criminals flood into our communities.“
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