President Trump will stand before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday to give an accounting of his first weeks in office. Meanwhile, Trump’s long-threatened tariffs against Canada and Mexico finally went into effect Tuesday, setting up costly retaliations by the United States' North American allies.

President Donald Trump will stand at the front of the U.S. House chamber to address a joint session of Congress, the first of his second term in office

Eight years later after Trump's first joint address to Congress, there are striking similarities to today's political climate and a prophetic question Trump asked in 2017.