STATE OF THE UNION: “Tonight, as I outline the next steps we must take as a country, we must honestly acknowledge the circumstances we inherited. Ninety-four million Americans are out of the labor force. Over 43 million people are now living in poverty, and over 43 million Americans are on food stamps. More than one in five people in their prime working years are not working. We have the worst financial recovery in 65 years. In the last eight years, the past administration has put on more new debt than nearly all of the other Presidents combined.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Joint Address to Congress,” whitehouse.gov, Feb. 28, 2017
[Note: U.S. presidents present an annual State of the Union address after being in office for a year; in the first year, the speech is called an address to a joint session. Click to read the whole speech.]