It has been a communicative of 2 antithetic universes arsenic President Biden has been spending a bully vacation play with his household arsenic Donald Trump is melting down connected his failing societal media platform.
Here is President Biden:
Small businesses are much than conscionable the engines of our economy. They’re the glue that clasp our communities together.
Shop tiny today, folks. pic.twitter.com/xnJeEEAUjp
— President Biden (@POTUS) November 25, 2023
Here is however President Biden is spending portion of Thanksgiving weekend, via the White House Pool Report arsenic provided to PoliticusUSA connected Friday:
At 4:08 p.m. POTUS walked retired of Nantucket Books, limb and limb with Finnegan. He was carrying a book: Democracy Awakening by Heather Cox Richardson. Naomi was beside him.
He walked into Craftmasters of Nantucket astatine 4:12 p.m. and retired astatine 4:19 pm. Jill Biden has joined the posse of Bidens walking in and retired of shops.
POTUS paused astatine assorted shops to question to radical lasting successful the windows. Crowds are each all implicit the sidewalks waving and shouting “Happy Birthday” and “Mr. President.” He is waving backmost and has shouted “Happy Thanksgiving.”
At 4:22 p.m. helium walked into the Jewelers’ Gallery. Hunter, Melissa and Baby Beau sat connected a seat outside. He came retired astatine 4:25 pm.
A radical of kids had been waiting astatine a upstairs model successful the gathering adjacent to the jewelry store but an cause told them to adjacent it. They came downstairs nevertheless and POTUS stopped to chat with them. They asked for a photograph with POTUS. Hunter took it.
In the astir 20 minutes POTUS walked astir six blocks and made his mode to the municipality quadrate astatine 4:30 pm. The agents cleared the sidewalk earlier him, the statesmanlike SUV trailed him and the excavation was connected the other sidewalk, weaving its mode done civilians who were waving and taking pics of POTUS with their compartment phones.
During POTUS jaunt, Melissa Cohen walked down POTUS arsenic did Hunter. Ashley Biden wore a headband with immoderate benignant of ears oregon decoration. Her hubby Howard was carrying Baby Beau. Peter Neal is besides walking successful the group.
POTUS and Bidens are present astatine municipality quadrate for the yearly histrion lighting. A choir is singing accepted carols.
This is however Donald Trump is spending his play connected Truth Social posting things similar this:
Andrew C. McCarthy: “If you’re a apical enforcement astatine a fiscal instauration that is heavy regulated by New York State, and you spot however the authorities has gone aft Trump hammer and tong successful a transparently partisan vendetta, bash you privation to get connected the ‘wrong’ broadside of that? When you spot that an elected-Democratic lawyer general, aided and abetted by an elected-Democratic judge, is hellbent connected putting Trump retired of concern and taking a quarter-billion dollars from him successful a lawsuit wherever determination are nary victims, what makes you deliberation they wouldn’t travel aft you if you transverse them? This is the concern clime nether woke-progressive, vindictive government.”
Trump has besides threatened to instrumentality distant healthcare from 40 million Americans if helium returns to the White House, and helium attacked Forbes mag for not believing his lies astir his wealth.
The mode the 2 men are spending their vacation weekends encapsulates the prime that voters volition look successful little than a year.
Do the American radical privation the debased cardinal propulsion backmost Americana competence of the Biden presidency, oregon bash they privation to instrumentality to divisive self-centered chaos of Trump?
Polls and talking heads tin trying to quantify the predetermination astir numbers and issues, but the prime comes down to a elemental question. In purely quality terms, which of these 2 men bash the bulk of Americans privation to walk the adjacent 4 years?
The reply volition specify the absorption and aboriginal of the nation.
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Jason is the managing editor. He is besides a White House Press Pool and a Congressional analogous for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree successful Political Science. His postgraduate enactment focused connected nationalist policy, with a specialization successful societal betterment movements.
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