Trump airs familiar grievances, charts MAGA plan in address before bitterly divided Congress

Trump said “not long ago, and you can't even believe these numbers, one in 10,000 children had autism, one in 10,000 and now it's one in 36.”

He is correct about the current rate being one in 36, per the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

It’s not clear what year Trump was referencing for his “one in 10,000” statement, but in 2000 it was one in 150, according to the CDC.

There are reasonable explanations for why the rate is higher now than decades ago. The autism criteria shifted in 2013 when three diagnoses — autistic disorder; Asperger's syndrome; and pervasive developmental disorder, not otherwise specified — were merged into a singular autism spectrum disorder diagnosis, Evan H. Dart, University of South Florida associate professor in the school psychology program, previously told PolitiFact.

"This alone could explain large increases in medical diagnoses of autism since the 2000s, even more so compared to the 1980s," when autism first appeared in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Dart said.

— Amy Sherman, PolitiFact

Trump continued his push to rename landmarks and vowed to rename the Panama Canal.

He repeated several false claims about its ownership and told Secretary of State Marco Rubio "good luck."

"We know who to blame if anything goes wrong," Trump said.

The mother of Jocelyn Nungaray -- a 12-year-old Houston girl who was sexually assaulted and killed last summer -- is in attendance at tonight's speech.

The two men accused in her assault and death are undocumented immigrants from Venezuela, who Trump called "two illegal alien monsters."

Trump accused former President Joe Biden of allowing the suspects to enter the U.S. through what he slammed as a "ridiculous open border" policy.

During his speech, Trump announced that a wildlife refuge near the victim's home would be renamed the "Jocelyn Nungaray National Wildlife Refuge" in her honor.

Trump asked Congress to help fund "golden dome" over the U.S. akin to Israel's Iron Dome defense system.

But experts told ABC News it wouldn't make much sense for the nation's national security, with allies located to the north and south and oceans on both sides.

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