I inherited a mess, and Im fixing it, President Donald Trump said at the start of his 20-minute Wednesday evening national address, soon adding, We had men playing in womens sports, transgender for everybody, barely a minute into his speech. For the last four years, the United States was ruled by politicians who fought only for insiders, illegal aliens, career criminals, corporate lobbyists, prisoners, terrorists and, above all, foreign nations, he said, They indoctrinated your children with hate for America. Related Major journalist who covered Trump for years now says hes off his f**king rocker We have broken the grip of sinister woke radicals in our schools, he continued before saying he had returned control of schools to our great and loving states, a likely reference to his attempt to unilaterally eliminate the Department of Education without congressional consent, even though the Republican-led Supreme Courts shadow docket permitted him to.Ive ended the war in Gaza, bringing for the first time in 3,000 years peace to the Middle East, he lied. Since the U.S.-brokered ceasefire began on October 10, 2025, at least 394 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza by Israeli attacks, according to the Gaza Health Ministry and the United Nations sources. Insights for the LGBTQ+ community Subscribe to our briefing for insights into how politics impacts the LGBTQ+ community and more. Subscribe to our Newsletter today He then claimed to have secured a record-breaking $18 trillion of investment into the United States experts say that amount is a lie. He then lied about his executive order reducing future prescription drug prices by as much as 400, 500, and even 600% a mathematical impossibility (reducing a price by 100% would mean that it costs nothing).He then repeated racist statements, accusing undocumented immigrants of invading and stealing American jobs and housing. (Both claims are untrue, according to the Economic Policy Institute and PolitiFact). Trump also continued his racist attacks against Somali immigrants living in Minnesota for committing billions in fraud. In actuality, the ringleader of the scam was a white woman named Aimee Bock (and only some of her accomplices, now facing criminal charges, were Somali, according to CBS News).Trump uttered numerous, regularly disproven lies during the rest of his speech. Writer Zach Beauchamp at Vox.com said of the speech, It reeks of desperation, as Trump lacks a coherent strategy for addressing rising healthcare and cost-of-living expenses for tens of millions of Americans.Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.