Washington:
The outgoing and incoming U.S. presidents had totally different messages for the Christmas vacation, with Democrat Joe Biden urging People to replicate and unite and Republican Donald Trump providing a vacation greeting and a flurry of politically centered social media posts.
Biden narrated a video tour of the White Home Christmas decorations that was revealed on YouTube late on Christmas Eve, by which he urges People to put aside “all of the noise and every little thing that divides us.”
“We’re right here on this Earth to look after each other, to like each other,” Biden says in a voiceover as a digicam pans previous adorned evergreen bushes and bedecked fireplaces contained in the White Home. “Too usually we see one another as enemies, not as neighbors, not as fellow People,” he mentioned.
Biden urged People to discover a second of “quiet reflection” to remind themselves to deal with one another with dignity and respect, “reside within the gentle” and keep in mind there was extra to unite than divide People. “We’re really blessed to reside on this nation,” he mentioned.
Trump revealed a mid-morning “Merry Christmas” message on Reality Social on Christmas Day with a photograph of himself and his spouse Melania, adopted by over two dozen retweets of articles or different social media posts that backed his political positions on subjects together with controversial Protection Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth and his pursuit of Greenland and the Panama Canal.
One was a mocking meme of Barack Obama that exhibits a photograph of the forty fourth President and Trump on the 2017 inauguration with the message “Once you see the man who mentioned ‘you will by no means be president’ at your inauguration.”
Biden took workplace in 2021 vowing to “finish this uncivil conflict that pits pink in opposition to blue, rural versus city, conservative versus liberal,” and mentioned he bowed out of the 2024 presidential race in July to unite the nation.
By some measures, polarization within the nation has elevated as a substitute, together with in the course of the 2024 marketing campaign that pits Biden in opposition to Trump, once more, earlier than Democrat Kamala Harris took over.
Trump has referred to as for the prosecution of perceived political enemies and vowed to restructure the federal authorities.
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