President Donald Trump will deliver what he calls “an address to the nation” from the White House on Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET.
He announced plans for the speech in a post on Tuesday’s Truth Social, writing: “My fellow Americans: I will address the nation tomorrow night at 9 p.m. ET, live from the White House. I look forward to ‘seeing’ you then.”
“This has been a great year for our country and the best is yet to come,” he added.
He did not elaborate further on the subject of his planned speech, but White House press secretary Carolyn Leavitt later told reporters it would be a “very good speech” in which the president would “talk a lot about the accomplishments of the past 11 months.”
Trump did not disclose the content of Wednesday’s speech. (Getty Images)
The president did not specify whether he would speak from the Oval Office, but if tomorrow’s address takes the usual format of a prime-time presidential address, he will likely do so from behind the iconic president. resolute table.
Since returning to power in January, Trump has delivered two sit-down remarks in the Oval Office. The first was a series of remarks on September 9 about his government’s efforts to promote “law and order” following the stabbing of Ukrainian immigrant Iryna Zarutska.
He spoke at the same location one day after Republican activist and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated on a Utah college campus.
Wednesday’s speech will likely be the third of his second term, which will equal the total number of sit-down speeches he delivered in his first four years in office.
Trump is no stranger to speaking to cameras, but speaking during prime time is unusual. (Getty Images)
Three of the speeches were from a speech he gave in March 2020 at the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, widely considered a chaotic event that began when Trump was caught swearing into a hot microphone into an ink stain on his shirt.
“Ah f***. Uh oh. I got a handwriting,” he said, before asking those present if anyone had used a rag or some “white stuff” to cover the stain on his shirt.
Soon after, he unnerved markets when he incorrectly said he would stop all shipments from Europe to the U.S. next month, and his advisers clarified that he meant to announce a European travel ban, not a ban on goods.
His next official address to the nation came ten months later, when he incited a riot at the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to prevent his loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
