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Trump vows to acquire Greenland 'one way or the other' in address with chaotic start

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President Donald Trump delivered the longest first address to a joint session of Congress in the country’s history, at one hour , 39 minutes and 32 seconds .

It took 90 minutes for him to provide an update on Ukraine and peace negotiations.

Just minutes into his speech, a Democratic Rep Al Green stood up and shouted at the president: You have no mandate. It's time to stop this madness. The chamber broke out in shouting and jeering between members of the two parties.

Republican lawmakers chanted Trump 's famous words from surviving an assassination attempt.

Trump got into a shouting match with Zelensky in the Oval Office during a meeting that was supposed to end with the latter signing a rare mineral deals toward peace and ending the war with Russia .

The Ukrainian president offered his country’s rare earth minerals for security guarantees and promised to sign it in any time and any convenient format’ Hours before his address, Trump reportedly told his advisers he wanted to announce the deal in his remarks, but that it had not yet been signed.