President Donald Trump will deliver what he has described as an “address to the nation” from the White House at 9 pm ET Wednesday.
He announced plans for the speech in a post on Truth Social Tuesday, writing: “My Fellow Americans: I will be giving an ADDRESS TO THE NATION tomorrow night, LIVE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, at 9 P.M. EST. I look forward to ‘seeing’ you then.”
”It has been a great year for our Country, and THE BEST IS YET TO COME,” he added.
He did not elaborate further on the topic of his planned remarks, but White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt later told reporters it would be a “really good speech.”
“He's going to talk a lot about the accomplishments over the past 11 months, all that he's done to bring our country back to greatness, and all he continues to plan to do to continue delivering for the American people over the next three years,” she said.
The president did not specify whether he would be speaking from the Oval Office, but if tomorrow’s remarks take the usual form of a prime-time presidential speech, he will most likely be broadcast while speaking from behind the iconic Resolute desk.
Trump has delivered two sit-down addresses from the Oval Office since returning to power this past January. The first was a set of September 9 remarks on his administration’s efforts to promote “law and order” in the wake of the stabbing of a Ukrainian immigrant, Iryna Zarutska.
He spoke from the same place a day later after the assassination of GOP activist and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk on a college campus in Utah.
Wednesday’s speech, the possible third of his second term, will see him equal the total number of sit-down addresses he delivered during his first four years in office.
One of those three, a speech he gave at the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, was widely panned as a shambolic affair that started when Trump was caught on a hot microphone cursing over an ink stain on his shirt.
"Ah f***. Uh oh. I got a pen mark," he said before asking those present if anyone had a wipe or some "white stuff" to hide the stain on his shirt.
Moments later, he spooked markets by mistakenly saying he was halting the entry of all cargo being sent from Europe to the U.S. for the next month, leaving his advisers to clarify that he had meant to announce a travel ban from Europe — not a ban on the entry of goods.
His next formal address to the nation came ten months later in the wake of the riot he fomented at the U.S. Capitol in a last-ditch attempt to prevent certification of his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden.
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