Biden Shares Last Christmas, Hanukkah Statement as President

‘For the final time as your president, it’s my honor to want all of America a really Merry Christmas,’ President Joe Biden wrote on X.

President Joe Biden made his final Christmas and Hanukkah handle as president to the American folks on Dec. 25.

“For the final time as your president, it’s my honor to want all of America a really Merry Christmas,” Biden wrote on X. “My hope for our nation, at this time and all the time, is that we proceed to hunt the sunshine of liberty and love, kindness and compassion, dignity and decency.

“Might God bless you all.”

This assertion adopted a video tour of the White Home shared on Christmas Eve narrated by Biden, through which he urged Individuals to put aside “all of the noise and the whole lot that divides us,” discover a second for “quiet reflection,” and “stay within the mild”—treating one another with dignity and respect.

“We’re right here on this Earth to take care of each other, to like each other,” Biden stated in a voiceover.

“Too typically, we see one another as enemies, not as neighbors, not as fellow Individuals.”

The president and first girl spent Christmas morning calling models from all six branches of the navy stationed all over the world, thanking the servicemen and girls and their households for his or her service.

Based on the White Home, the president and first girl referred to as the 401st Military Area Assist Brigade stationed in Kuwait, and the I MEF Coordination Component (MCE) 25.2 or the Marine Rotational Power stationed in Darwin, Australia. Additionally they referred to as the crew of the usSterett (DDG-104) at the moment underway, the U.S. Air Power Particular Operations Job Group in East Africa, the U.S. Area Power SPACECENT Fight Detachment 3-1 stationed in Al-Udeid Air Base, Qatar, and the crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Napier (WPC 1115), docked in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The president and first girl shared an image of them making these calls on X, stating: “There’s a real selflessness in giving up a seat at your Christmas desk to defend your nation.”

Because the solar set on Dec. 25, the primary evening of Hanukkah additionally started, and to commemorate the day, the president shared an image with First Woman, Jill Biden, across the first-ever White Home menorah.

“Two years in the past, Jill and I launched the first-ever White Home Menorah constituted of historic wooden sourced from the inspiration,” Biden wrote on X. “As Hanukkah begins, it’s exhibited to clarify that the historical past of the Jewish life is woven into the material of America. Like this menorah, it’s everlasting.”

In the meantime, President-elect Donald Trump additionally shared his personal Christmas statements, utilizing the chance to bolster his stances on resecuring the Panama Canal, absorbing Greenland, and making Canada the 51st state.

Reuters contributed to this report.