Politics

A Tale of Two Presidents

One does his job, the other used to play one on TV

Jennifer Friebely
Curated Newsletters
4 min readMar 2, 2021

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President Biden: By The White House from Washington, DC — V011013DL-0556, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24903444; President Trump: By Shealah Craighead — White House, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63768460

“I promise you, the day will come when the memory of the loved one you lost will bring a smile to your lips before a tear to your eye. It will come, I promise you.” — Joe Biden

Last week, while I watched President Biden solemnly and appropriately mark the deaths of 500,000 COVID-19 victims in the United States — a little over a year since his predecessor said it “would magically go away” — I felt it was something as our “empathizer-chief” only he can do. He’s been there. He walks the talk. The contrast between the two men watching over our great country, cannot be starker.

It’s like one does the job. The other pretended to do the job like a TV character. No, not like one. He was one.

The prior weekend, while Trump was golfing, Biden was visiting an ailing old friend and GOP rival, Bob Dole. Could you imagine Trump ever paying someone a sick visit? Let alone a colleague from the opposing party? One man is large and big-hearted, and the other is tiny and so, so small-minded.

This past weekend Trump spoke at CPAC, spewing more of the big lie that created the Capitol…

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