Joe Biden’s recent State of the Union address to Congress has been widely criticized as a campaign speech, filled with self-praise for unachieved goals and direct attacks on his probable opponent, President Donald Trump, and his numerous supporters.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and an investigative journalist specializing in radical Left and Islamic terrorism issues, took this critique a step further.
“This was not a State of the Union address, it was a fascistic campaign rally of the kind that he had been giving for years, most disturbingly while flanked by Marines at Independence Hall before the 2022 midterms, declaring war on Trump, Republicans and all political opponents,” he analyzed.
While Biden did mention some national developments during his tenure, he claimed economic success despite an 18% inflation rate under his policies.
Most of his speech was spent threatening the U.S. Supreme Court and all Americans who might choose a political path that does not align with his pro-abortion and pro-transgender ideologies.
In a column at FrontPageMag, Greenfield expressed his concerns directly.
“Joseph Robinette Biden began his final State of the Union address by invoking FDR. But while Biden has nearly as much trouble getting around as FDR, he didn’t lead a nation out of a depression, but into one, and he didn’t win a war, he did however lose several. Including a personal war with his diction and his teleprompter at the State of the Union,” he said.
Greenfield noted that Biden’s speech was the eighth-longest on record.
“The only reason it wasn’t even longer is that Biden rushed to get through it, mumbling and slurring words, rattling off threats and insults at a speed that made them all but impossible to understand,” he said.
He continued, “A few breaths after implicitly comparing himself to FDR during WWII, Biden then compared himself to Lincoln during the Civil War (‘not since President Lincoln and the Civil War have freedom and democracy been under assault here at home as they are today’) and then President Reagan before launching an attack on President Trump. The State of the Union isn’t a place to attack opposing candidates. Bush didn’t take potshots at Kerry in his State of the Union speech and even Obama didn’t mention Romney in his. And yet Biden attacked Trump a few minutes into his. And then did it again. And again.”
Greenfield criticized Biden for turning what should be “a presidential review of the year” into a “deranged partisan hatefest of a speech.”
The result was “the quavering rattlings of an angry old man,” according to Greenfield.
Biden claimed that America’s economy is “the envy of the world” and inflation is “the lowest in the world.” These claims were buried deep within his speech.
“Why didn’t Biden begin by bragging about these incredible accomplishments? Why bury them toward the middle of his speech? Because not only are they lies, but no one believes them,” Greenfield pointed out.
Greenfield noted that Biden then started “promising free stuff,” but with a $34 trillion national debt, there’s no money for any of his promises. “We’re on the way to $1 trillion in interest payments a year thanks to his previous spending sprees,” he said.
Biden attacked conservatives, Israel, Trump and more.
“Biden violated the most elementary State of the Union decorum. He gave a speech that he should not have been allowed to deliver. And that should have been shut down during. Presidents deliver these addresses as guests of Congress. As a guest, Biden insulted his hosts, soiled the drapes and tried to wrap his partisan hatefest in name dropping and the flag,” Greenfield stated.
What does Biden’s vision for America’s future look like?
“The future looks like a senile president arriving at a State of the Union to launch vitriolic attacks on the opposition, wrecking political norms, implying that a new civil war is at hand, threatening the Supreme Court and defining all opposition as a dangerous form of treason,” Greenfield concluded.