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President Biden Should Have Walked Out During Trump's Inaugural Address

Trump gracelessly dumps on President Biden in final insult

John Dean
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4 min readJan 22, 2025

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Screen Capture from C-SPAN coverage of 2025 Trump Inauguration Speech.

I watched too much of President Trump’s Inauguration on January 20, but I had to. I needed to hear Trump’s vision for America’s future and hoped the speech would focus on the present, not the past. I was not prepared for what I heard.

In casting his administration as the start of a “Golden Age” for America, Trump described the last four years as a disaster caused by the policies of the Biden administration. Never mind that Trump called Biden senile and incompetent for the previous four years. To make himself feel good, Trump must belittle someone else.

I focused on Trump’s speech in my January 22, 2025, editorial in Spy Community Media’s Eastern Shore newspapers. The piece suggests that Biden made a mistake in graciously and patriotically attending the Inauguration but should have stood up and walked out when Trump started to spew his disingenuous description of America and blame Biden for it.

The editorial, as published in The Spy, may be found here and below.

President Biden Should Have Walked Out

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