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In the first year in power, President Joe Biden chose to call the representative “that guy”.
But now Biden names Donald Trump in unflattering terms.
The attacks on Trump’s policies are expected to be blunted in a speech that Biden will give on the night of Friday.
The televised speech is held in Philadelphia and Independence hall, which is a kind of symbol of American democracy. And the speech will be a vicious attack on Trump just ten weeks from the important midterm elections in November.
Biden has already indicated the direction:
– What we are seeing now is either the beginning or it is the death knell of the Maga movement philosophy, Biden told Democratic Party supporters in Maryland last week.
The reference to Maga relates to Trump’s slogan Make America great again, which has become a mantra and collective term for Trump’s followers.
Tough salve
Then came the salvo from Biden.
– It’s not just Trump, it’s about the entire philosophy that is characterized by . . . semi-fascism.
The reason for the strong words is Trump’s renewed and active attempt to push his own political direction within the Republicans. As well as his continued questioning of the current US leadership.
President Biden’s anger is also due to the arduous struggle to pass several of the reform proposals on which he was elected.
Representatives to the entire House of Representatives are elected in November, as are one-third of the members of the Senate. The Democrats have the smallest possible majority margin in the Senate and a narrow majority in the House of Representatives.
Rare attack
It is very rare for a sitting president to criticize representatives; political pundits can hardly recall anything like it.
But Timothy Naftali, who is a historian at New York University, notes that the situation has changed.
– It has never happened before that a former president actively tries to undermine the US constitution, says Naftali to the AP news agency.
The night’s speech is supposed to begin at 02:00, Swedish time.