Outgoing President Joe Biden during a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in front of the White House in Washington.Image: trapezoid
The winner of the US presidential election will not occupy the White House until January 20, 2025. But Donald Trump doesn't want to wait that long; he's already president. That didn't seem to bother Biden too much.
Renzo Ruf, Washington/ch media
His tenure began long after the holidays ended, long after even the cruelest New Year's hangover had passed. But Donald Trump is acting as if he is the president of the world's largest economy.
It wasn’t Joe Biden who attended Notre Dame’s reopening, but Donald Trump.Image: trapezoid
The Republican sat in the front row with his legs spread apart at Notre Dame's opening celebrations. He made detailed campaign promises online and issued ultimatums to political operatives in Washington. Moreover, as in his first term from 2017 to 2021, Trump is trying to get heads of government of friendly and allied countries to go his way – most recently he mocked Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Justin Trudeau), who described him as a governor as if America's northern neighbor was a new part of the country.
There is effectively no shadow head of state in the United States, just as there is no formal opposition leader in the political system in Washington. “There's only one president at a time,” Trump aptly said after his first election win in November 2016, as the Republican impatiently awaited his final inauguration and demanded a number of things from the outgoing president. Political course correction.
Joe Biden with his son Hunter in Washington.Image: trapezoid
On the other hand, the U.S. Constitution provides for a very long transition period between Election Day and the beginning of the president's next term. In the UK, for example, new Prime Minister Keir Starmer was received in Downing Street, London, the day after the successful vote. Trump, on the other hand, had to wait nearly eleven weeks in total to win the White House. No election winner wants to last that long, especially not a notoriously fretful man like Donald Trump (78).
Unlike 2016, there's no Barack Obama standing in the way this time. Instead, the outgoing president is Joe Biden, who has stepped away from the spotlight long before his term ends.
Overthrowing Syrian dictator is only worth 8 minutes to Biden
Biden has been missing since at least Election Day, a bitter disappointment for his party. He spent a lot of time with his family at his beach house in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, or on his vacation island in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Democrats rarely appear in public, speaking out only in exceptional circumstances. Biden last spoke on Sunday about overthrowing the Syrian dictator and on Tuesday about the success of his administration's economic policies. The first speech lasted 8 minutes and the second speech lasted less than 40 minutes.
Despite claims to the contrary by his close aides, the 82-year-old Biden looks like a man who has ended a long political career – although he will still have all the powers of the President of the United States until noon on January 20, 2025, when his term officially ends Finish.
Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden sit under an umbrella in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, in late August.Image: trapezoid
Many of his party friends also noticed Biden taking a dive. “We should be louder,” Jay Inslee, the outgoing governor of Washington state, said recently. Trump plans to radically reorganize the American federal government during his second term, a move that Democrats should resist. Inslee told the Wall Street Journal that reaction to Trump’s future Cabinet was too mild.
In addition, many Democrats also have a grudge against Biden. They have a feeling that his party's old chairman has botched the 2024 campaign with his stubbornness. They also cannot understand why Biden granted his son Hunter a full pardon after he repeatedly promised not to take such a step. We heard in the nation's capital that at the end of his long career, Biden had more than damaged his credibility. His political legacy was also destroyed.
Trump is now filling this power vacuum. The future president sounds a bit arrogant. Although he has not yet been sworn in, he is already raving about his accomplishments. This was the headline of a media release his staff sent out earlier this month: “Promise fulfilled – President Trump hasn’t even been inaugurated yet.” (aargauerzeitung.ch)
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