U.S. President Joe Biden will criticize an American story of “resentment, revenge, and retribution” in a thinly veiled broadside at his predecessor, Donald Trump, during the State of the Union address Thursday, according to its excerpts.
Prereleased by the White House, the excerpts showed that Biden, a Democrat, will use the bully pulpit to highlight his reelection campaign credo, as he is gearing up for an all-but-certain rematch with Trump, now the only key Republican presidential candidate, in November.
“My lifetime has taught me to embrace freedom and democracy. A future based on the core values that have defined America: honesty, decency, dignity, equality. To respect everyone. To give everyone a fair shot. To give hate no safe harbor,” he said, according to the excerpts.
“Now some other people my age see a different story: an American story of resentment, revenge and retribution. That’s not me,” he added, not mentioning Trump by name.
The speech came just two days after both Biden and Trump coasted
to victories in more than a dozen states on Super Tuesday, making their head-on matchup all but certain.
Right after the primary victories, Biden cast Trump as being “driven by grievance and grift, focused on his own revenge and retribution, not the American people.”
Source: Yonhap News Agency