01-16-25 YMS White House Correspondent JON DECKER analyzes President Biden’s farewell address to the nation.

White House Correspondent JON DECKER analyzes President Biden’s farewell address to the nation. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Previously on your Morning show with Michael Dill Choonhaoe.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
And then there was the farewell address of Joe Biden
last night to a nation, statistically in polls that has
already said good riddance. You could make a case this
speech was destined to fail before it ever began. White
House Correspondent John Decker is here to analyze President Biden's
farewell address. I tried to be as kind as I
can about this. I just think it's a not a

(00:26):
tough cell. I think it was an impossible cell. I
don't know that I would have given one, but he did.
Would you think.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
I didn't think it was in the top tier of
farewell addresses that I've heard, watched and covered, and I've
covered them going all the way back to when Bill
Clinton gave his farewell address handing the keys to the
White House over to George W. Bush. It was all
over the map, It wasn't focused, and as you know,
on top of all of that, Joe Biden is not

(00:57):
a good speech maker. So you put all that together,
it was not your top tier farewell address given by
an outgoing president.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
And let me say, I appreciate your desire to be
kind as I was trying to be kind watching it,
but it evolves so quickly into bitterness, and really the attempt,
I guess to rewrite how America already firmly feels about
this presidency. That's just difficult to do well.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
It's difficult to do in the immediacy. And what I
mean by that is presidencies are not always seen the
same way. After a president leaves office a few years later,
Americans maybe view a presidency different. I'm not saying that's
going to happen with Joe Biden, simply saying if you
look at George W. Bush and his presidency viewed a

(01:47):
lot differently now than when he left office in two
thousand and nine, and Jimmy Carter is themed differently now
mostly because of his good works after he was president.
So in repair your image, and Joe Biden has a
lot to repair, given that his approval rating is in
the low thirties.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Right now, and based on his age and condition, may
may not have a lot of time to do that,
all right. Closing moments with John Decker, White House correspondent,
The oligarchy. You know, I don't want to play talk
rady with you. I never do that we don't do
that off the air, and we don't do that on
the air. But I would say, this is a guy
that benefited from a leftist oligarchy. He just put the
medal of freedom around George Sorows's neck. He benefited greatly

(02:29):
from COVID and the weaponization of COVID, and and a
lot of zucker Bucks and so on. And then to
go out the door and warn of an oligarchy that
is now turning another tough, if not impossible sell.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yeah, that's that's a tough sell, don't I don't know
you know who he's appealing to when he talks about
that warning. And you know, it's different than when President
Dwight Eisenhower in his farewell dress warned about the military
industrial complex. He was going out as a president with
a high approval rating. He was going out with someone

(03:05):
who had some intimate knowledge of the military industrial victorious.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
World War two general and popular.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
President world War two general exactly. So to me, that
fell flat. You know, you may think we're nothing alike,
but it's scary. In the five o'clock hour, I brought
up Eisenhower because at the end of the day, if
I was Joe Biden. I think, you know, not every
president gives a farewell address, and this is one that
probably shouldn't.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
I would have just shuffled off into the sunset. It's
like leaving a party that nobody really wanted you to
come to, and everybody's glad you're leaving. There's really no
reason for a big, long goodbye. They tried it. I
think it failed. Probably a lot of people didn't watch it,
and there'll be a lot of talk about the oligarchy,
comment and goose and gander and hypocrisy, But all right,
I just wanted to make sure I wasn't crazy. I

(03:52):
was trying to find something to say, and I.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
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