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Trump Set High Bar for Biden’s Speech Before Congress on Wednesday–Can Biden Possibly Meet It?

Posted on Monday, April 26, 2021
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bidenThis Wednesday, Joe Biden will give his first address before a joint session of Congress, marking the President’s most important public appearance since taking office. As AMAC Newsline has previously noted, Biden has already waited longer to appear before Congress than any President in generations.

When Biden takes the podium on Wednesday, he will confront the challenge of putting a positive spin on what has been a turbulent start to his presidency. Biden is facing a massive crisis of his own creation at the southern border, a stagnating economic recovery, continued social unrest, and renewed aggression from China, Russia, and Iran in response to perceived U.S. weakness. Americans will expect answers from their president, and the Biden administration thus far hasn’t provided any. President Biden will likely tout the number of Americans that have been vaccinated, but that success is thanks to President Trump’s Operation Warp Speed. President Trump’s vaccine plan has largely succeeded in 2021 in spite of the Biden administration’s bungled rollout and continued mixed messaging on the safety of vaccines.

Despite the magnitude of Wednesday’s speech in the context of Biden’s presidency, relatively few lawmakers will be present. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has capped attendance at around 200, a move that makes little sense given that the House chamber is designed to hold more than 1,000 people, nearly double the 535 members of Congress that would normally be invited. Moreover, nearly every member of the House and Senate has already been vaccinated.

Undoubtedly, Biden will have a tough act to follow after President Trump dramatically raised the bar for the speech during each of his four years in office and earned glowing reviews and high approval ratings from Republicans and Democrats alike.

Under President Trump, the annual address to Congress became must-watch television filled with unifying moments for all Americans. Indeed, Trump turned the event into an annual patriotic ritual with unforgettable scenes that will live on in Americans’ collective memory for decades. One such moment came early on in 2017 when President Trump delivered a stirring tribute to Navy SEAL Ryan Owens, who was killed in a raid in Yemen, as his widow, Carryn Owens, looked to Heaven with tears in her eyes. Even outspoken Trump critic Van Jones called it “one of the most extraordinary moments you have ever seen in American politics, period.”

In 2018, during his first official State of the Union Address, President Trump once again delivered breathtaking television–from recognizing Congressman Steve Scalise who had nearly been killed by a left-wing extremist attack on the Republican baseball team, to highlighting the grieving parents of two Long Island girls murdered by MS-13, to telling the unbelievable harrowing story of a North Korean defector, Ji Seong-ho.

Trump’s 2019 State of the Union Address was even more packed with emotion and drama, beginning with the recognition of three D-Day heroes and then returning to them at the end of the speech to reveal that some of those same heroes had gone on to liberate the Nazi concentration camps of survivors who were seated right next to them. One of the Holocaust survivors, Judah Samet, was then revealed to have recently survived the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting.  President Trump noted that it was Judah’s 81st birthday. The entire chamber, Republicans and Democrats alike, spontaneously sang “Happy Birthday” to the elderly Judah, as a smiling Trump mimed the role of a conductor in the well of the House chamber.

Trump’s ability to perfectly articulate a vision of America that celebrated its history and looked toward a better future translated into record approval from viewers. CBS ran an instant poll following Trump’s address that found 76% of respondents viewed his speech positively. The Drudge Report declared “TRUMP ROCKS HOUSE.” Lance Morrow, writing in the Wall Street Journal, declared the 2019 Address a “masterpiece.”

Yet in 2020, Trump took the form to even greater heights. Janiyah Davis, a fourth-grader from Philadelphia, was surprised when the President bestowed her with a school choice scholarship. Ian Lanphier, a young man who wanted to join the Space Force, was revealed to be accompanied by his 100-year old grandfather, one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, whom the President had just promoted to Brigadier General. Juan Guaido, the recognized legitimate president of Venezuela, made an unexpected appearance. A dying Rush Limbaugh was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on live television. Carl and Marsha Mueller, whose daughter Kayla Mueller had been murdered by ISIS, were informed for the first time that the mission to kill ISIS founder al-Baghdadi had been named in Kayla’s honor. And finally, in a made-for-TV ending, a military wife and her two children were reunited with their American soldier husband and father who had been deployed in Afghanistan, as he bounded into the chamber to the shock of his family. As Trump uttered the final syllables of the address’s moving conclusion, Nancy Pelosi was so thoroughly defeated that she stood up and literally tore her copy of the speech in half.

CBS’s Norah O’Donnell, no Trump fan, said afterward that the speech was a “master showman at his best.” Obama advisor David Axelrod said it was a “very, very well crafted re-election speech.” The New York Post wrote, “Trump Hits Grand Slam.”

Trump also saw increases in his approval rating following all four of his addresses to Congress. Americans watched, and they liked what they saw. We’ll see if Mr. Biden can meet the high standard set by his predecessor.

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JOHN
JOHN
3 years ago

I have sincere doubts that Biden even comprehended the President’s message. His “handlers” insulate him from reality. The puppet masters pull the strings.

44fraud
44fraud
3 years ago

AMAC author fawning over OBiden and addressing him as “president” makes me sick and tells me that AMAC is an organization that I do not wish to spend another nickel on. Reminder to AMAC staff: The 2020 election was stolen by the liberals and RINOs. OBiden IS a usurper POtuS; Kamala Harris is a co-conspiritor in this usurpation of the Executive Office. Harris is not a natural born US Citizen because a natural born Citizen is a person born in the USA to two (2) US citizen parents.

P Key
P Key
3 years ago

Hopefully the promoter will go out and all of America will be able to see a (not mine) representative not capable of running this country and never should have been elected!

Lorey
Lorey
3 years ago

If tbe replubicans had a pair. They would all stand up 4 obiden with their backs 2 him. But of course u would need pair that is so unlikely with these rhinos who love 2 bend over ,& grab their ankles 4 a e ticket ride from demonrats ( disney,)

Jeanne
Jeanne
3 years ago

I seriously doubt he will. It’ll all be in his notes, and he will be coached ahead of time as how things will be done.
I bet nobody will will tear up his speech demonstrating extreme disrespect for an elected official like Pelosi did after Trump’s speech!!

Stephen Russell
Stephen Russell
3 years ago

No he wont meet it & will wear mask & read from Teleprompter

Phil Hammersley
Phil Hammersley
3 years ago

Can some hacker mess with his teleprompter? He couldn’t get three cogent sentences out if he can’t read it off the prompter. Even at that he has to squint like Mr. Magoo!

Carol Adams
Carol Adams
3 years ago

The media will praise biden to the sky no matter what he says or does. Any compliments by media to trump were a gift and not given often. Main stream media, cnn. MSNBC, pbs are too biased to ever be believed. So do not expect any thing but praise after the biden speech or rather I should say after the biden reading of the teleprompter.

GKP
GKP
3 years ago

I will not watch this jerk at any time//Just think the house will have Pelosi+Harris holding hands sitting behind a complete dementia buffoon. Now that should be a picture of 3 idiots for a cartoon/

J. Farley
J. Farley
3 years ago

Hidden Joe Biden, will manage to do the Limbo, if anyone remembers that dance, it’s dancing around and managing to dance as low as you can go under a bar. His train of thought will derail in the first 10 minutes

Felix
Felix
3 years ago

Someone should pull the plug on his teleprompter.

The Rebel
The Rebel
3 years ago

This guy is a complete MORON So what does that say for the Delaware voters who put him in office for 50+ years??????

phoenix
phoenix
3 years ago

of course he will. I mean he won’t and can’t

But its going to be reported that he did.

I’ve no plans to watch

I am busy preparing for a stock market crash, High energy and food prices and inflation

‘Nonymous
‘Nonymous
3 years ago

Biden couldn’t come close to Trumps abilities or standards on the most lucid day of his worthless life!

Bchris
Bchris
3 years ago

Can Biden match Trump’s speech? NO WAY – NOT IN A ZILLION YEARS! Old joe and his puppet managers are ruining this country!

Lyn echols
Lyn echols
3 years ago

Notice his wife always needs to be near by to coach him. All you ever see is him poised with pen in hand to sign something he knows nothing about. He’s just playing at being a president, so incompetent!

Tim
Tim
3 years ago

It will be very short, as Joe is unable to be up to long. Maybe, Jill will be at his side and looking over his shoulder to ensure he is staying on track. I will not be watching a Socialist message from the king pin crime boss of the Biden crime family.

Rachel
Rachel
3 years ago

President Trump is still my president, not this fool Mr. Biden. I will not be watching him read this speech that someone else wrote. He has been practicing for the past week. Good luck.

ShellzNcheez
ShellzNcheez
3 years ago

Joe can’t tie his own shoes. Listening to Trump speak (whether you liked what he said or not) and listening to Joe stammer while chasing trails of fading thoughts, is like night and day. What kind of idiot would vote for ‘Slow Joe’?! I passed said idiot on the road yesterday. Two HUGE Biden Harris stickers proudly displayed on his back window. Ugh.

Stephane
Stephane
3 years ago

Whatever the handlers of the chinese stooge will put on the “prompter”, the senile idiot will flub it!
If they put 2 lines he wiill go from one to the other and loose his elan. That shadow of a man will NEVER aain make sense in any speech, even if he can read it.

demarree1
demarree1
3 years ago

I want the job of tearing up the speech, just like Pelosi did to Trump’s speech last year!

Heather
Heather
3 years ago

They are all Globalist in bed with China

Mike
Mike
3 years ago

Well they have a whole list of issues Biden has on his plate but they forgot one that could possibly cost the Dem’s the White House and more. INFLATION! Just since Joe took over prices have gone up. And I directly hold him responsible for fuel prices which may be what is driving prices up. It costs more to transport products and we all know that price is passed on to the consumer. Oh and let’s not talk about what it costs now at the gas pump. Joe has no policies that help the people of this country. He and the Dem’s are only in it for power not to help anyone but themselves.

linda 1
linda 1
3 years ago

Prediction: Biden will speak less than 20 minutes. He will allow his co-president to take over. We’ll hear about the justice for George Floyd thanks to the tireless effort of BLM. He will tell us how the influx of ‘migrants’ across the southern border is a great thing for our country. He will take full credit for the vaccine and ending the wars in the middle East. He will praise the Chinese for working with us on Climate Change. Harris will giggle and tell us every thing she is doing to help those crossing the border.

Jeanette Wojtas
Jeanette Wojtas
3 years ago

I don’t see why Congress cannot be 100% in attendance..and an designated survivor be put in place. This administration is hurting our country..

John
John
3 years ago

What the Hey? We all KNEW Old Doddering Joe would be telling some real whoppers! He really doesn’t know he is an idiot.
“When you are dead, you really do not know you are dead. The suffering, anguish and loss is felt by those friends and family that are left behind… the SAME is also TRUE when you are a Democrat!”

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