Trump's week in review: Pentagon worship service, year-end address to the nation

3. Trump delivers speech reflecting on his first year in office

As 2025 comes to a close, Trump delivered a speech from the White House Wednesday, reflecting on the first 11 months of his second term in office. The speech contrasted his record with that of the Biden administration and announced some new initiatives the Trump administration would be pursuing going forward. 

Trump credited his administration’s immigration policies with creating the “strongest border in the history of our country” and resulting in the release of “zero illegal aliens” into the country for the past seven months. The president also touted his tariffs as a success, announcing that the revenue from tariffs would be used to provide more than 1.4 million members of the military with “warrior dividends” of $1,776 before Christmas.

The president also unveiled a forthcoming website, TrumpRX.gov, which will enable Americans to take advantage of lower prescription drug prices that resulted from his negotiations with drug companies and foreign nations beginning in January. Another accomplishment mentioned in the speech involved what he described as breaking “the grip of sinister woke radicals in our schools.”

“Control over those schools is back now in the hands of our great and loving states, where education belongs,” Trump said, referring to his efforts to abolish the U.S. Department of Education. The process to completely dismantle the federal agency remains ongoing.