President Joe Biden delivered his farewell address to the nation on Wednesday night. In his speech, Biden touted his record on the economy and his support for “democracy.”
“The Statue of Liberty, a gift from France after our Civil War, like the very idea of America, it was built not by one person, but by many people, from every background, and from around the world,” Biden said.
The outgoing president blasted the “wealthy” and “oligarchs” who he said are corrupting politics. He also said that “social media is giving up on fact-checking,” and that Americans are being inundated with misinformation.
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Here is a fact check of some of Biden’s factual claims in his speech.
Job Creation
Biden took credit for producing the greatest amount of job creation for any president in one term. He said that his administration created “nearly 17 million new jobs, more than any other single administration.”
However, that statistic is extremely misleading since most of the job creation happened after mass job losses during the COVID-19 lockdowns. Even Politico has noted that the “U.S. economy didn’t recover all the jobs lost during Covid until 2022.”
A smaller percentage of Americans are working today than there were working when Biden took office.
Heritage Foundation economic and labor policy analyst Rachel Greszler wrote in August that “the unemployment rate alone understates rising non-employment in the United States.”
“Over the past year, the employment-to-population ratio of people ages 16 and older fell from 60.4 to 60.0,” she wrote. “That’s equivalent to 934,000 fewer people working today than just a year ago. And compared to 2020, just prior to the pandemic, there are 2.9 million fewer people working.”
There have also been issues in the administration’s reporting of job growth numbers.
In September, the Bureau of Labor Statistics made a massive correction to its March jobs report and essentially admitted that 818,000 fewer jobs had been created than initially reported.
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President Joe Biden delivered his farewell address to the nation on Wednesday night. In his speech, Biden touted his record on the economy and his support for “democracy.”
“The Statue of Liberty, a gift from France after our Civil War, like the very idea of America, it was built not by one person, but by many people, from every background, and from around the world,” Biden said.
The outgoing president blasted the “wealthy” and “oligarchs” who he said are corrupting politics. He also said that “social media is giving up on fact-checking,” and that Americans are being inundated with misinformation.
Here is a fact check of some of Biden’s factual claims in his speech.
Job Creation
Biden took credit for producing the greatest amount of job creation for any president in one term. He said that his administration created “nearly 17 million new jobs, more than any other single administration.”
However, that statistic is extremely misleading since most of the job creation happened after mass job losses during the COVID-19 lockdowns. Even Politico has noted that the “U.S. economy didn’t recover all the jobs lost during Covid until 2022.”
A smaller percentage of Americans are working today than there were working when Biden took office.
Heritage Foundation economic and labor policy analyst Rachel Greszler wrote in August that “the unemployment rate alone understates rising non-employment in the United States.”
“Over the past year, the employment-to-population ratio of people ages 16 and older fell from 60.4 to 60.0,” she wrote. “That’s equivalent to 934,000 fewer people working today than just a year ago. And compared to 2020, just prior to the pandemic, there are 2.9 million fewer people working.”
There have also been issues in the administration’s reporting of job growth numbers.
In September, the Bureau of Labor Statistics made a massive correction to its March jobs report and essentially admitted that 818,000 fewer jobs had been created than initially reported.
Violent Crime
After touting the passage of a gun control law under his administration, Biden said that he’s brought violent crime down to a 50-year low.
“I passed the most significant gun safety law in 30 years and brought violent crime to a 50-year low,” he said.
But violent crime surged under Biden and remains high despite some misleading statistics suggesting a crime decrease.
According to a September report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the “total instances of reported violent crimes increased from 5.6 per 1,000 individuals aged 12 and over in 2020, when [President Donald] Trump was still in office, to 8.7 per 1,000 in 2023.”
Additionally, the study found that there were “9.8 instances of violent crime per 1,000 people aged 12 and over in 2022, which marks the highest rate during the 2020-2023 era.
The New York Post reported in August that “between 2016 and 2020, violent crime fell by 17% under Trump — and soared by 43% under Biden between 2020 and 2022.
Additionally, there are now problems with the recording of crime statistics. Not only are many crimes going unreported, but many city police departments haven’t been reporting complete crime data to the FBI since the system changed in 2021.
Hostage Deal
“After eight months of nonstop negotiation by my administration, a ceasefire and a hostage deal has been reached by Israel and Hamas,” Biden said. He claimed that the deal struck between Israel and Hamas this week was conducted and developed by his “team.”
However, according to Arab officials, and even the Biden administration itself, this deal was largely hashed out by the incoming Trump administration. The New York Post reported that officials in the Biden administration gave credit to Trump in facilitating the deal between Israel and Hamas.
“Multiple insiders and officials in both Israel and the US told The Post that it was Trump’s impending inauguration — combined with the efforts of his Middle East special envoy, Steve Witkoff, that finally solved a problem that had proved intractable for President Biden and his team,” the New York Post reported.
According to Reuters, “Witkoff was able to pressure Netanyahu into accepting the deal and moving quickly. It’s that conversation that shifted everything into motion.”
Also, according to two Arab officials interviewed by the Times of Israel, Trump did more to sway Netanyahu to make a deal in one day than Biden had done all year.
Reprinted with permission from The Daily Signal by Jarrett Stepman.
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As usual, everything this administration has done, is just FANTASY. NO IMPROVEMENTS, just FAILURES.
Lying to the very end! OBiden was reading from a script, as usual. He hasn’t been running this country since his minions cheated him into office. His disgusting wife used him like a disposable utensil, as all the DemoKKKRATS did. Good riddance to bad rubbish!
If nothing else, Braindead Joe is consistent – a consistent liar.
In that brief address, he told enough lies to fill a book.
His legacy will be exactly what I have been saying for more than three years: this administration is the most corrupt, criminal, treasonous administration in this nation’s history.
It was also filled with the largest number of incompetent buffoons ever gathered together in one government at one time.
If we can recover from all the damage intentionally done to our nation by this administration, it will truly be a miracle.
Thankful that we have a President Elect that is able to accomplish a lot of things that are beneficial to Americans before he has officially started his 2nd term. January 20th can’t get here fast enough!
The Statue of Liberty was designed and built in France by French workers, not people from around the world. It was merely unassembled, shipped to the US, and reassembled. It wasn’t built here.
You can’t believe a word this idiot says. Biden family and friends ARE the oligarchs he’s talking about. Go kiss Soros’s ring! He had all social media sensor all of his dirt!! He should not have been President! Biden has trampled on every Constitutional right there is and rubbed our noses in it. If we questioned these oligarchs, you were immediately targeted. So many people were unjustly attacked including pastors, grandmothers, etc.
Go retire to one of your homes with the gates tax payers bought! F*%^ YOU BIDEN!
If his mouth is moving he is lying. He pardoned murderers, and others who had life sentences and also his drug addicted own son who brought cocaine into the White House.
His senility/dementia or whatever is no excuse. Who behind the scenes has been running our government while his mental capacity languished?????????
When will people wake up and see that democrats care nothing for us, out here working land, and worse they hate their own country.
Im so glad President Trump is returning to office next week.
I hope the door hits him in the A$$ on his way out and that it leaves a Mark!
Liar, Lair, I hope his pants catch on fire!
I’m surprised Biden’s nose didn’t get longer with all the lies he has told over the past years including comments in his farewell speech. He has been in the political spotlight for years and has done nothing to show for it except drive America into the ground. Biden’s support of al-Qaeda, ISIS, Hamas, and Hezbollah in the war against Israel is unparalled and anti-American. He has supported and advocated for trans-males to play in womens sports, allowed payments to BLM (Black Live Matter) and open the American borders to everyone including known terrorists and hardened foreign crimminals and gang members. Biden has given away BILLIONS of US taxpayer dollars to foreign countries and ignored Americans including military veterans.
I refused to watch this sack of lies spew his garbage last night. He spent the last four years destroying our nation and the only promise he kept was to flood our country with ILLEGAL ALIENS. Good riddance!!!!
Which ventriloquist was pulling the dummy’s chain?
Sadly he continues to decline, but happily he’ll be a sad footnote in history Soon
Guess he was describing himself, “wealthy” and “oligarchs” who are corrupting politics. One thing we can all be sure about…when his lips are moving, he is lying through his dentures….
It’s a laugh the way the crats re-define the word “democracy” to cover up their blunders. Why didn’t Joe bring up his US border disaster that allowed 15 million homeless illegal aliens into the US at tax payer expense?? WHY,….because Biden’s been nothing but a tool for the progressive socialist’s that have been running his administration as well as run the US over a cliff.
What a stain on the United States Biden’s presidency has been. Incompetent, corrupt, a constant liar. His only accomplishment was relieving Jimmy Carter of being the worst president in history, while Jimmy was still alive. Scranton Joe holds that title now and it is really doubtful his record of incompetence can ever be exceeded without a for real impeachment.
As illegitimate corrupt lying incompetent moron he solidified his place in history as such as the worst one.
A few more days of this lying President Biden. I am still surprised that 37% of the people think Biden did a good job. He had nothing to brag about. And what he bragged about, democracy, he had to go back to the Civil War and a monument made by foreigners to justify democracy. He destroyed America. He created wars and couldn’t get a cease fire established or hostages released. He forgot the people in America and aided the Ukraine to the detriment of the homeless and sick people in the US. Hallujah for Trump and Inauguration Day Monday January 20-2025. 249 years after our Independence from Great Britain we are getting our Independence back from the elite globalists that want to destroy America. USA. United States of America. E pluribus Unum. Out of one, many.
delusional, lying sack of c**p
Good riddance!
I agree with the comments I read and B iden et al should be remembered as total failures and habitual liars…however, more importantly is that I hope he is not remembered as the President that financially and morally killed America and fostered WWIII.
Such a despicable human being I have rarely seen in all my years. Nothing but the worst for him and his lying, cheating, stealing family going forward.
The only oligarch trying to take over this country he gave a medal of freedom to last week.
Hopefully we get term limits established so this country never, ever produces another one like him.
Look at the presidential vote tallies.
Blasting wealthy and oligarchs, no comment As for the other claims , no comment, let the facts speak.
Reading this is so laughable. First and foremost, what does Biden know anything of democracy? Under his “dictatorship he screwed the American people with his higher taxes and is a capital murderer. Second the only thing he was right about is we were misinformed and misinformed all for the wrong reasons. We were misinformation by his buddies of left wing radical media. Third, what does he mean when he says that the next administration is focused on power and wealth. Really Joe? What kind of drugs is your doctors giving you? This made me LAOM!! Also had the gull to meet with the Pope. Wow!! Pope is an idiot for having ANY TIME to spend with a murderer. Shows you how shallow Pope is.
Arrogant, narcissistic, and lying old fool. We’ve put up with this guy for 50 years. Bye.
It’s Clinton 101. When caught lying, state the other side is lying more. Watching the democrats since Bill Clinton reveals that what they accuse the other side of is what they are the best experts in doing. That is why they can be so convincing when accusing…they know the evil practices better than anyone. How evil? Look at how many people could have hurt the Clinton’s that wound up in the grave. You can find at least 56. That is a lot of coincidences. The accusation about oligarchy is laughable. Check the Geore Soros and son relationships. Evil does exist, and the ballot slot supported has a great big D BY THE NAME.
Biden and his administration was never in touch with real issues and problems facing our nation. His open border policies was a total fiasco. Criminals released from foreign nations were treated like heros and were given free Healthcare, housing, taxpayers money, and released from jail for crimes they committed. He was the worst president ever to lead our nation in the wrong direction. He took credit for the good things he should have done and not for his failures.
He probably didn’t even know what he was saying.