{"id":2195235,"date":"2024-03-08T22:49:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T03:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-final-state-of-the-union-was-everything-the-media-called-trumps-address-at-mount-rushmore\/"},"modified":"2024-03-08T22:49:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T03:49:00","slug":"bidens-final-state-of-the-union-was-everything-the-media-called-trumps-address-at-mount-rushmore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-final-state-of-the-union-was-everything-the-media-called-trumps-address-at-mount-rushmore\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s Final State Of The Union Was Everything The Media Called Trump\u2019s Address At Mount Rushmore"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbidens-final-state-of-the-union-was-everything-the-media-called-trumps-address-at-mount-rushmore%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2195235&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<div>\n<figure>                         <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Joe Biden delivered one of the most partisan, divisive, hate-filled speeches of his presidency Thursday night with seething criticisms of his chief political opponent and direct threats to democratic institutions. If the speaker had been Donald Trump, there might have been a movement to impeach him a third time.<\/p>\n<p>In what may have been Biden\u2019s final State of the Union, the president spent the first half hour of his angry address attempting to intimidate the associate justices of the Supreme Court seated in the House chamber while depicting his opposition as violently extreme.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy predecessor and some of you here seek to bury the truth about Jan. 6,\u201d Biden said, declaring objections to electoral certification \u2014 which Democrats have made for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/13\/second-j6-hearing-criminalizes-republicans-for-election-objections-after-democrats-made-them-for-decades\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">decades<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 the \u201cgravest threat to U.S. democracy since the Civil War.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then, the president condemned the Supreme Court for overturning the 50-year precedent set forth in\u00a0<em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> that wrongly recognized a constitutional right to abortion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith all due respect, justices,\u201d Biden said, \u201cwomen are not without electoral or political power \u2026  you\u2019re about to realize just how much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thursday night\u2019s speech put to rest any remaining doubt that President Biden failed to represent the \u201creturn to normalcy\u201d he promised four years ago that <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/04\/02\/bidens-presidental-run-is-the-2020-digital-version-of-a-1920-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">echoed<\/a> the 1920 campaign of Ohio Sen. Warren G. Harding, who also campaigned from home. Biden\u2019s divisive address rivaled his kickoff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2022\/09\/01\/remarks-by-president-bidenon-the-continued-battle-for-the-soul-of-the-nation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">speech<\/a> for the 2022 midterms when the president depicted political dissidents as a \u201cthreat\u201d to \u201cthe very soul\u201d of America while flanked by marines under a blood-red background.<\/p>\n<p>The Beltway press <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/08\/bidens-speech-from-hell-was-everything-the-media-called-trumps-address-at-mount-rushmore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">celebrated<\/a> both speeches as righteously defiant against unprecedented threats against democracy itself.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Media types clearly in the tank for Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Do yourself a favor and search X for \u201cBiden\u201d and \u201cfiery.\u201d See how many hits you get.<\/p>\n<p>This was an angry political speech. The media is reframing it for the White House. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ywvPvVQeJt\">pic.twitter.com\/ywvPvVQeJt<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Tim Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimMurtaugh\/status\/1766073563805548576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cBiden Calls on Americans to Resist Threats to Democracy\u201d read a headline from The New York Times\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/09\/01\/us\/biden-speech-philadelphia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">three years ago<\/a>. Last night, the Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/03\/07\/us\/biden-state-of-the-union-updates#:~:text=%E2%80%9CNot%20since%20President%20Lincoln%20and,both%20at%20home%20and%20overseas.%E2%80%9D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">headlined<\/a>: \u201cBiden Focused on Defending Democracy, the Economy and the Border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump, on the other hand, delivered an election-year speech in 2020 celebrating civil rights heroes, and the Times <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/07\/05\/president-delivers-patriotic-speech-sending-trump-deranged-media-into-rage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">called<\/a> it \u201cdark and divisive.\u201d Speaking at the base of Mount Rushmore, Trump was aspirational about American ambitions, dreaming that \u201cone day very soon, we will plant our flag on Mars,\u201d as far-left rioters tore down statues of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/06\/19\/protestors-topple-george-washington-in-portland-continuing-purge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">George Washington<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Heminator\/status\/1267463903853916160?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Abraham Lincoln<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opb.org\/news\/article\/thomas-jefferson-statue-pulled-down-portland-jefferson-high\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Thomas Jefferson<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/06\/24\/now-that-teddy-roosevelt-is-under-attack-heres-why-animals-must-be-next\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Theodore Roosevelt<\/a>, the four men carved into the South Dakota mountain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis monument will never be desecrated, these heroes will never be defaced, their legacy will never be destroyed, their achievements will never be forgotten, and Mount Rushmore will stand forever as an eternal tribute to our forefathers\u2019 fathers and to our freedom,\u201d Trump triumphantly declared.<\/p>\n<p>Any time Trump gave a speech, however, he was blasted with hysterical press coverage. The Washington Post claimed Trump\u2019s Independence Day address at Mount Rushmore \u201cexploits social division\u201d and sought to \u201camplify racism.\u201d But Trump could have spent Jan. 6 <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/08\/02\/trump-could-have-spent-jan-6-talking-about-the-weather-and-still-would-have-been-indicted\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">talking about the weather<\/a>, and the Democrats still would have indicted him.<\/p>\n<p>Biden will spend the rest of the year being celebrated by the press for smearing half the nation as domestic extremists. Trump will continue to run against an incumbent who remains propped up by the Beltway media.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>   Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist and the author of Social Justice Redux, a conservative newsletter on culture, health, and wellness. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan&#8217;s email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden delivered one of the most partisan, divisive, hate-filled speeches of his presidency Thursday night with seething criticisms of his chief political opponent and direct threats to democratic institutions. If the speaker had been Donald Trump, there might have been a movement to impeach him a third time. In what may have been Biden\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2195297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Donald-Trump.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2195235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Donald-Trump.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2195235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2195297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2195235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2195235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2195235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}