Please contact us for subscription options. "The presence of the Marines at the speech was intended to demonstrate the deep and abiding respect the president has for these service members, to these ideals and the unique role our independent military plays into defending our democracy no matter which party is in power," said White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre at a news conference.Īnadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. They live not in the light of truth but in the shadow of lies, Biden said in front of a red-lit Independence Hall, harnessing the historic setting to call for a reckoning on the movement led by. The White House issued a statement saying that the use of military members at events "is not abnormal, it is actually normal."
"If he doesn’t want to Make America Great Again, which through words, action, and thought, he doesn’t, then he certainly should not be representing the United States of America!" "Someone should explain to Joe Biden, slowly but passionately, that MAGA means, as powerfully as mere words can get, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" he said. President Joe Biden delivers a primetime speech at Independence National Historical Park Sept. he threatened America, including with the possible use of military force," Trump wrote. "If you look at the words and meaning of the awkward and angry Biden speech. Trump himself lashed out at Biden on his social media platform, even though the former president used military members in backdrops for his own photo ops. "Joe Biden essentially declared all those who oppose him and his agenda enemies of the republic. "(The) most demagogic, outrageous, and divisive speech I have ever seen from an American president," said conservative commentator Ben Shapiro in an online post. “We have to defend it, protect it, stand up for it.”Īs Biden called on Americans to vote in November, many critics noticed the presence of the two service members standing on both sides and pointed out that the American military should serve as apolitical symbols having no alliance to any particular political party. “For a long time, we’ve told ourselves that American democracy is guaranteed, but it’s not,” Biden said, as he implied that those Marines standing behind him were a key part of protecting democracy. "None of our politicians or elected leaders should do that."ĭuring what amounted to an anti-MAGA (Make America Great Again) speech criticizing former president Donald Trump and his base, Biden was flanked by two US Marines as he warned Americans that Trump and his Republican followers represent "an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic." "It's not right if a Democrat uses the military as a political pawn and it's not right if the Republican Party does it as well," she added. 1, 2022 President Biden delivered remarks in Philadelphia on Thursday about what he described as ongoing threats to democracy in the United States. Its a little bit like when Id go into the tank with. "We need to make sure that our military is as removed from politics as possible," said former executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Allison Jaslow in an interview with CNN. And I feel mildly intimidated speaking before such a group of esteemed economists. Biden on Tuesday intends to discuss his plan for public safety and will contrast that with what he will say is an “extreme MAGA agenda” from congressional Republicans that “is a threat to the rule of law.Democrats and Republicans alike slammed President Joe Biden on Friday for using two US Marines as what has been called a political maneuver in his "Soul of the Nation" speech Thursday night, while the White House defended the move. The event in Philadelphia will be his third in the battleground state in the span of one week. Thursday's speech comes as Biden is ramping up his travel schedule in the closing months of the midterm elections.
He later drew on Abraham Lincoln with a major speech at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and Franklin Roosevelt in Warm Springs, Georgia, in the closing weeks of the 2020 campaign. In that campaign, Biden repeatedly drew upon the message of not just the nation’s Founding Fathers but other great leaders in highlighting how he viewed then-President Donald Trump as someone who would risk changing the character of the nation if given another term in office.
Biden will deliver the speech outside Independence Hall, another echo of his 2020 candidacy, which began with a rally in Philadelphia.