A main theme will be that the country is booming with a rise in domestic manufacturing and new jobs, despite many Americans not feeling that way. “It’s going to be a long speech because we have so much to talk about," said Trump, who promised a heavy dose of talk about the economy.
Trump's address also comes as two U.S. carriers have been dispatched to the Middle East amid tensions with Iran.
The president will recount how U.S. strikes last summer pounded Tenran's nuclear capabilities, and laud the raid that ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Nicolas Maduro, as well as his administration's brokering of a ceasefire in Israel’s war with the Hamas terrorist group in Gaza.
President Trump has also invited the gold medal winning U.S. men's Olympic hockey team to be present at tonight's speech.
