May God help our nation:
In a farewell address expected to be posted online at 4 p.m., Trump will tout his record as president and declare that “the movement we started is only just beginning,” according to excerpts released by the White House on Tuesday afternoon.
“This week, we inaugurate a new administration and pray for its success in keeping America safe and prosperous,” Trump is expected to say. “We did what we came here to do — and so much more.”
In the excerpts, Trump does not make any mention of the coronavirus pandemic, which has taken the lives of nearly 400,000 people in the United States.
Neither does the president make any mention of Biden by name, nor does he retract his repeated, false claims that the presidential race was “stolen.” There is no evidence of any widespread voter fraud in the November election.
“Above all, we have reasserted the sacred idea that in America, the government answers to the people,” Trump is expected to say. “We restored the idea that in America, no one is forgotten — because everyone matters and everyone has a voice. I took on the tough battles, the hardest fights, the most difficult choices — because that’s what you elected me to do.”
Trump’s four years in office have seen America become more divided than at any other point in recent history — spurred, in part, by the president’s inflammatory rhetoric toward his political opponents as well as toward immigrants, Black people, women, people of color and other groups.
Nonetheless, in his farewell address, Trump will attempt to cast his presidency as one marked by a bipartisan spirit.
“Our agenda was not about right or left, it wasn’t about Republican or Democrat, but about the good of a nation, and that means the whole nation,” Trump will say.
He will also declare, “We built the greatest economy in the history of the world,” in what will be his 493rd time repeating the falsehood, according to The Washington Post’s Fact Checker.
“All Americans were horrified by the assault on our Capitol. Political violence is an attack on everything we cherish as Americans,” Trump is expected to say. “It can never be tolerated. Now, as I prepare to hand power over to a new administration at noon on Wednesday, I want you to know that the movement we started is only just beginning.”
Trump last week became the first president in U.S. history to have been impeached twice. The Senate is expected to begin its trial of Trump next week, with Democrats pressing not only for conviction but also for Trump to be barred from running for office again.
In a farewell address expected to be posted online at 4 p.m., Trump will tout his record as president and declare that “the movement we started is only just beginning,” according to excerpts released by the White House on Tuesday afternoon.
“This week, we inaugurate a new administration and pray for its success in keeping America safe and prosperous,” Trump is expected to say. “We did what we came here to do — and so much more.”
In the excerpts, Trump does not make any mention of the coronavirus pandemic, which has taken the lives of nearly 400,000 people in the United States.
Neither does the president make any mention of Biden by name, nor does he retract his repeated, false claims that the presidential race was “stolen.” There is no evidence of any widespread voter fraud in the November election.
“Above all, we have reasserted the sacred idea that in America, the government answers to the people,” Trump is expected to say. “We restored the idea that in America, no one is forgotten — because everyone matters and everyone has a voice. I took on the tough battles, the hardest fights, the most difficult choices — because that’s what you elected me to do.”
Trump’s four years in office have seen America become more divided than at any other point in recent history — spurred, in part, by the president’s inflammatory rhetoric toward his political opponents as well as toward immigrants, Black people, women, people of color and other groups.
Nonetheless, in his farewell address, Trump will attempt to cast his presidency as one marked by a bipartisan spirit.
“Our agenda was not about right or left, it wasn’t about Republican or Democrat, but about the good of a nation, and that means the whole nation,” Trump will say.
He will also declare, “We built the greatest economy in the history of the world,” in what will be his 493rd time repeating the falsehood, according to The Washington Post’s Fact Checker.
“All Americans were horrified by the assault on our Capitol. Political violence is an attack on everything we cherish as Americans,” Trump is expected to say. “It can never be tolerated. Now, as I prepare to hand power over to a new administration at noon on Wednesday, I want you to know that the movement we started is only just beginning.”
Trump last week became the first president in U.S. history to have been impeached twice. The Senate is expected to begin its trial of Trump next week, with Democrats pressing not only for conviction but also for Trump to be barred from running for office again.
