Presidential historian Mark Updegrove just compared President Joe Biden’s speech on the anniversary of January 6 to “FDR after Pearl Harbor, Lyndon Johnson after Selma [and] George W. Bush after 9/11”:
.@MarkKUpdegrove puts Biden on this list today: "This was FDR after Pearl Harbor, Lyndon Johnson after Selma, George W. Bush after 9/11." @ABCNewsLive
— Rick Klein (@rickklein) January 6, 2022
And then what happened after these speeches?
FDR then put Americans in camps
LBJ was a one-term president
Bush then got us into two unwinnable wars https://t.co/pK6ThTaV5n— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) January 6, 2022
We’re surprised he didn’t say it was better than this speech, too:
Move over, Gettysburg Address. https://t.co/K0K2zhgbSX
— Max (@MaxNordau) January 6, 2022
And it’s pretty disgusting to compare January 6 to these other times in our history:
This is pretty disgusting. Sorry, I was 12 years old and watched 9/11 live. I watched GWB give that speech and, honestly, I am just horrified by comparisons. https://t.co/wKQb1vuNdE
— kaitlin (@thefactualprep) January 6, 2022
It’s “not even close”:
Not even close https://t.co/3wHDngI8Xw
— Andy Lancaster (@andylancaster) January 6, 2022
But they just can’t help themselves:
It’s okay to say ‘hey, that was a good Biden speech’ without descending into this sort of excessive lickspittery. https://t.co/Ygd1D3En6q
— Peter Cook (@_Peter_Cook) January 6, 2022
Anyway, once the coverage dies down today we can get back to pointing out how badly Biden has botched the Covid response:
No one will remember this speech next week and certainly no one driving all over their city looking for a covid test. https://t.co/SdVjTwxUzF
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) January 6, 2022
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