Joe Biden Uses First Oval Office Address To Take Swipe At Trump. Debt Ceiling Deal Victory Lap, & Set Up Reelection Campaign Themes

deadline.com:

Joe Biden may have stumbled yesterday at the US Air Force Academy graduation, but the President had some swagger tonight. “There were extreme voices threatening to take America for the first time in our 247-year history and a default on our national debt,” said Biden with a swing at Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans in his first Oval Office address to the nation since taking office.

Nothing, nothing would have been more irresponsible. Nothing would have been more catastrophic.” In much criticized CNN town hall on May 10, the past and potentially future president urged Republicans “to do a default” if they couldn’t get massive spending cuts and more. Underscoring the importance that the current occupant of the Oval Office wanted to give to the “vital” debt ceiling deal that passed both chambers of Congress this week after some down to the wire negotiations, Biden’s speech was covered live by CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and the BBC.

Fronted by anchor Norah O’Donnell, CBS also carried the almost primetime address live in a special report as did ABC and NBC.

On the West Coast, the Comcast owned network missed the first couple minutes of Biden’s speech due to local news coverage. If anything, tonight’s speech was a sneak peek at the Rose Garden strategy one of America’s great retail politicians has planned for next year’s election campaign.