Trump shares social media submit attacking ‘radical left lunatics’ and says Canada may turn out to be 51st US state.
The outgoing and incoming United States presidents had completely different messages for the Christmas holiday, with Democrat Joe Biden urging Individuals to replicate and unite, whereas Republican Donald Trump supplied a vacation greeting after which took goal at his political opponents.
Biden narrated a video tour of the White Home Christmas decorations that was revealed on YouTube late on Christmas Eve on Tuesday, wherein he urged Individuals to put aside “all of the noise and every thing that divides us”.
“We’re right here on this Earth to look after each other, to like each other,” Biden mentioned in a voiceover as a digicam pans previous adorned evergreen timber and bedecked fireplaces contained in the White Home. “Too usually we see one another as enemies, not as neighbours, not as fellow Individuals,” he mentioned.
Biden urged Individuals to discover a second of “quiet reflection” to remind themselves to deal with one another with dignity and respect, to “stay within the gentle” and bear in mind there was extra to unite than divide Individuals. “We’re actually blessed to stay on this nation,” he mentioned.
Trump revealed a mid-morning “Merry Christmas” message on Reality Social on Christmas Day on Wednesday with a photograph of himself and his spouse Melania, adopted by greater than two dozen re-posts of articles or different social media posts that backed his political positions on subjects together with defence secretary nominee Pete Hegseth and his pursuit of Greenland and the Panama Canal.
Later, Trump revealed a extra prolonged “Merry Christmas” message that claimed Chinese language troopers had been working the Panama Canal, and criticised Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Biden and Democrats.
“Merry Christmas to the Radical Left Lunatics, who’re consistently attempting to hinder our Courtroom System and our Elections,” Trump wrote. “They know that their solely likelihood of survival is getting pardons from a person who has completely no concept what he’s doing.”
“Additionally, to Governor Justin Trudeau of Canada, whose Residents’ Taxes are far too excessive, but when Canada was to turn out to be our 51st State, their Taxes could be lower by greater than 60 %,” Trump wrote.
Biden took workplace in 2021 promising to “finish this uncivil warfare that pits crimson towards blue, rural versus city, conservative versus liberal,” and mentioned he bowed out of the 2024 presidential race in July to unite the nation.
Biden’s Democrats misplaced each battleground state and each homes of Congress within the November election.
By some measures, polarisation within the nation has elevated, together with through the 2024 marketing campaign that noticed Biden face Trump, once more, earlier than Kamala Harris took over the Democratic candidacy earlier than she finally misplaced the presidential election.
Trump has known as for the prosecution of perceived political enemies, the US takeover of the Panama Canal and pledged to restructure the federal authorities.