United States President Joe Biden has used his final formal address as president to warn of the dangers of “oligarchy” and “extreme wealth” to democracy, as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to begin his second term with an administration stacked with billionaires.
“Today, an oligarchy takes shape in the United States, excessive wealth, strength and influence that literally threaten to all our democracy, our basic rights and freedoms and a photo so that everyone can move forward,” Biden said on television on the Oval Office of the Oval Office of The oval office. In the White House on Wednesday night.
Biden’s speech occurs five days before Trump’s inauguration on January 20 and a few hours after Israel and Hamas announced that they had accepted a stop in Gaza, a result that escapes from the Biden management for months to despite the wonderful opposition to war among many Americans.
In his speech, Biden warned about “a concentration of strength in the hands of a few ultra rich people” and “consequences if their abuse of strength is left without control. “
The incoming roast of President -elect Trump has at least 11 billionaires who occupy official positions, according to the Democratic Party. They come with the richest type in the world, billionaire Elon Musk, who said Trump said the so -called government ministry.
Biden also warned that “powerful forces” threatened to undo their climatic achievements, while unprecedented forest fires are burned in Los Angeles, the largest moment in the United States.
Biden began his speech shortly referring to the newly announced high -fire agreement between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which is partly Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attributed to Trump.
“After 8 months of negotiations through my administration, a ceasefire and hostage agreement through Israel and Hamas were concluded,” Biden said.
Biden added that even if his team had negotiated the agreement, he had told them to remain “the administration completely informed” because “would be widely implemented” through them.
While claiming the ceasefire as an achievement of his presidency, many voters in the 2024 presidential elections said they were unable to support the Democratic Party due to Biden’s dogged support for Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip.
Biden, 82, left the disappearance for a moment after the electorate and his own party expressed his considerations regarding this functionality the first debate on the presidential elections opposed to the republican candidate of the time, Donald Trump, with the vice president from Biden, Kamala Harris, to dispute the presidency and then lose opposite to Trump.
Biden used its last days as a service to introduce a radical prohibition of oil and herbal fuel drilling that cover more than 625 million acres (253 million hectares), adding the “east coast of the United States, The Oriental Gulf of Mexico “and sure portions of the” North Bering sea in Alaska “.
This was realized as an obvious move to avoid Trump’s promise to “break, baby drill” for oil “on day one” of his time.
Biden said in his farewell that “it will take time to feel the effect of everything we have done together, but the seeds are planted, and will grow, and flourish in the coming decades. “
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