'We must stand together': Biden calls on Americans to stop viewing their political opponents as enemies
Source: NBC News
July 14, 2024, 2:32 PM EDT / Updated July 14, 2024, 8:00 PM EDT
WASHINGTON President Joe Biden called on Americans to "lower the temperature" in political rhetoric in an address from the Oval Office on Sunday night, asking for more respectful discourse and civility in the wake of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
Disagreement is inevitable in American democracy, Biden said, adding that politics should never turn into a killing field.
While we may disagree, we are not enemies, Biden said during his approximately six minutes of remarks. Were neighbors, were friends, coworkers, citizens, and most importantly, we are fellow Americans. We must stand together.
The speech is only the third Biden has delivered from the Oval Office during his term. Presidents typically reserve the Oval Office for speeches of the highest consequence, typically war and peace.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/biden-oval-office-address-sunday-evening-trump-shooting-rcna161790
He has rarely done any addresses from the Oval Office so this would add extra gravity to the situation.
Article updated.
Original article/headline -
July 14, 2024, 2:32 PM EDT
In an address from the White House on Sunday afternoon, President Joe Biden spoke about yesterday's assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump and cautioned Americans against making "assumptions about [the shooter's] motives or his affiliations."
He spoke about the importance of national unity and promised to speak on the subject more during an Oval Office address Sunday night at 8 p.m. ET.
The president also spoke about the "short but good conversation" he had with Trump earlier today, adding that "Jill and I are keeping him and his family in our prayers." Biden mentioned the briefing he had in the White House Situation Room earlier Sunday that included Vice President Kamala Harris and top White House advisers.
Biden also said he's asked the director of the Secret Service to review all security measures for the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, which begins tomorrow. The president also said he's asked for an independent review of security at yesterday's rally and promised to publicly share the results of that review.
bucolic_frolic
(46,729 posts)and MAGA Republican incumbents won't buy any of it.
Cha
(304,875 posts)4139
(1,976 posts)That should prevent team Trump from getting nasty and ugly
Mawspam2
(843 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(36,561 posts)JoseBalow
(4,920 posts)Novara
(6,113 posts)The only thing I want to hear is the acknowledgement that the biggest promoter of political violence is that orange motherfucker himself, and that this sort of thing was inevitable because the media treated it as a spectacle, not a danger.
BumRushDaShow
(141,332 posts)Because the yellow journalist-filled, RW-owned corporate media won't cover him otherwise unless they can create an AI-generated slime story and narrative about him. So doing these remarks "commands the networks" to cover him in his Presidential capacity.
angrychair
(9,676 posts)This was an R on R crime. We had nothing to do with it and I will be damned if I will let Republicans try and put any blame on Democrats in general or the president.
The Grand Illuminist
(1,616 posts)The right has done way too much damage to our nation and the greater good. It all started with Rush Limbaugh whose hateful rhetoric and vitriol found an emboldened audience and its use got the right both houses in the 90s. Then you have the original January 6 riot back in 2000 in Miami which, with all truth, stole the presidency from Al Gore and then Bush stole the election again, this time from John Kerry. After 8 years of high quality leadership of Barrack Obama, the right stole another for Trump, this time from Hillary. I put the blame on all of this squarely on those RWers who voted them in office. They know what they are doing. And I'll be damned if I let them destroy our way of life even if it comes to the last resort. There is no other choice, they put us in an uncompromising position.
Mr. Mustard 2023
(230 posts)a demonic pedophile. I will not stand with a Nazi.
Sorry President Biden and others, but the fascist fake Christian Republicon right wing propaganda machine wants money. The only way they make their money is to keep their angry base of uneducated white Americans motivated to give money is to scare them into thinking I'm their enemy.
In other words, I'll unify with MAGA once they admit their mistakes and apologize for them.
Elessar Zappa
(15,656 posts)And I would like us to unite too but I agree with you that its impossible to stand with people who hold wicked moral values.
machoneman
(4,121 posts)....invading like Visigoths the Capitol, laying waste to offices and even pooping on the floor. What would make one think they would even recognize the meaning of an Oval Office speech?
Freddie
(9,662 posts)Hope22
(2,606 posts)They are in attack mode 24/7. Sir you tell us to stand down at our own peril.
Marthe48
(18,841 posts)I wish Americans would get the result like the scene on the ferry in Dark Knight, but I'm too idealistic for these times :/
Autumn
(46,018 posts)who work with Republicans to further their agenda and halt Democratic agendas are my enemy. Republicans and their ilk are the ones who have turned America into a killing field. I will stand with none of them.
republianmushroom
(17,279 posts)I've lost to many of my family to fascism not to view the MAGA fascist as an "enemy". They pose a greater danger to this country than Russia or any other country. IMO. They may not be your enemy, Joe, but they are mine.
Oneironaut
(5,760 posts)Their Unity means Cis-Hetero-White Men being the only ones visible and with power in society. Not interested in unity with Fascist scum.
The Grand Illuminist
(1,616 posts)Last edited Mon Jul 15, 2024, 07:42 PM - Edit history (1)
Or be the party of the compromised. Sorry Joe, war is hell.