Trump in SOTU address says all countries fear ‘far worse’ tariff terms, want exing deals to continue with US | World News

3 min readUpdated: Feb 25, 2026 08:31 AM Trump State of The Union Speech: US President Donald Trump said that all countries which had signed tariff deals before the Supreme Court of the United States’ order striking down his policies want to continue “along the same path”.
Trump said that one of the primary reasons that his country saw an economic turnaround was his tariff policies. He said “deals are all done”. “The big story was how Donald Trump called the economy correctly. Twenty-two Nobel Prize winners and economs got it totally wrong. And just four days ago, an unfortunate ruling from the United States Supreme Court, it just came down. Very unfortunate ruling.
“But the good news is that all countries and corporations want to keep the deals that the already made, knowing that the legal power that I as President have to make a new deal could be far worse for them. And therefore, they will continue to work along the same successful path that we had negotiated before the Supreme Court’s unfortunate involvement,” he said.
‘Bigger, better, richer’
Trump began his speech saying: “Our Nation is BACK—bigger, better, richer, and stronger than ever before.”
He said: “I had inherited a nation in crisis, with stagnant economy, inflation and record levels, wide open borders, horrendous equipment for military and police, and wars and chaos all over the world. But within one year, we have achieved a transformation like no one has seen before.”
President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the US Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo)
Speaking about his anti-illegal immigration policy, he said: “In the past nine months, zero illegal aliens have been admitted to the United States. But we’ll always allow people to come in legally and work hard to maintain our country.” He further said that the flow of “deadly fentanyl” is down 56%.
He also said that last year, the murder rate in the US saw its single largest decline in recorded hory. “The lowest number in over 125 years,” he said.

.@POTUS: “In the past 9 months, ZERO illegal aliens have been admitted to the United States… The flow of deadly fentanyl across our border is down a record 56%…And last year, the murder rate saw its single largest decline in recorded hory…the lowest number in over 125… pic.twitter.com/IG6Llnh48P
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Oil-rich Venezuela is US’s ‘new friend and partner’
Trump said the oil-rich Venezuela, whose President Maduro US captured recently, is America’s “new friend and partner”. “American oil production is up more than 600,000 barrels a day and we just received from our new friend and partner Venezuela 18 million barrels of oil,” he said
He further said American natural gas production is at an all time high because he delivered on his promise of “drill ba, drill”.
Watch Trump’s full SOTU speech below:

 
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