{"id":10565,"date":"2021-01-19T22:11:45","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T22:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=152098"},"modified":"2021-01-19T22:11:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T22:11:45","slug":"good-riddance-you-fascist-white-supremacist-trump-farewell-gets-cold-shoulder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/19\/good-riddance-you-fascist-white-supremacist-trump-farewell-gets-cold-shoulder\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Good Riddance You Fascist White Supremacist’: Trump Farewell Gets Cold Shoulder"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Members of Congress, major news networks, journalists, and other critics of President Donald Trump responded coldly to his farewell message on Tuesday as the nation prepared for President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Today is the last full day of the worst and most dangerous president in American history,” tweeted<\/a> Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) shortly after Trump’s nearly 20-minute video<\/a> message was posted to the White House YouTube channel.<\/p>\n

“For four years Trump has tried to divide our people up,” added Sanders, a Democratic presidential primary candidate who ultimately supported Biden. “Our job, now, is to bring people together around an agenda that works for all, not just the few.”<\/p>\n

Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) was more concise:<\/p>\n

Washington Post<\/em> media reporter Jeremy Barr pointed out<\/a> that as Newsmax<\/em> and Fox News <\/em>anticipated Trump’s farewell address, CNN<\/em> and MSNBC<\/em> focused on Biden arriving at Joint Base Andrews\u2014notably by private plane due to safety concerns with Amtrak and because Trump reportedly<\/a> refused to offer the customary Air Force plane.<\/p>\n

Though CNN<\/em> later aired clips of Trump’s remarks, Barr noted the contrast between the networks just after the video’s release in a series of tweets:<\/p>\n

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Fox News is now airing the Trump farewell video<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jeremy Barr (@jeremymbarr) January 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

The lack of attention to Trump’s remarks was reminiscent of when, just after the November 2020 presidential election, major news networks cut away<\/a> from an evening address by Trump to fact-check his false claims that he had been elected to a second term. At the time, the race hadn’t been called for either candidate.<\/p>\n

In the months that followed Biden’s electoral victory, Trump repeatedly claimed without evidence that the election was “rigged” and refused to accept his loss. On January 6, his lies about the election\u2014echoed by congressional enablers\u2014incited a deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol as lawmakers tried to certify Biden’s win.<\/p>\n

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Trump’s incitement of the Capitol attack led major online platforms to ban the president, after years of resisting pressure to do so, and House Democrats\u2014joined by just 10 Republicans\u2014to impeach<\/a> him a historic second time; a Senate trial<\/a> is expected<\/a> to begin sometime after Biden takes office and Democrats take control of the chamber.<\/p>\n

Following in the footsteps of other platforms<\/a> such as Twitter and Facebook, Google-owned YouTube suspended<\/a> Trump’s personal channel for at least a week on January 12 for violating the company’s policies. According to NBC News<\/em> reporter Scott Budman, YouTube has extended that ban for at least another seven days:<\/p>\n

In his farewell speech\u2014the full text<\/a> of which was posted to the White House website\u2014Trump touted his record of tearing up regulations and boosting U.S. contributions to the global climate crisis.<\/p>\n

“We slashed more job-killing regulations than any administration had ever done before,” Trump declared. “We also unlocked our energy resources and became the world’s number-one producer of oil and natural gas by far.”<\/p>\n

As CNN<\/em> noted<\/a> when Trump made similar comments during his 2020 State of the Union address, the U.S. become the world’s top energy producer during the Obama administration, though the country “became the top producer of crude oil in particular during Trump’s tenure.”<\/p>\n

Although Trump did not mention Biden by name on Tuesday, he said, “We extend our best wishes, and we also want them to have luck\u2014a very important word.”<\/p>\n

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