President Biden took a departing jab at Trump, saying that what the president-elect did was a “genuine threat to democracy.”
Ahead of the anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, Biden was asked if he still thought Trump was a threat to democracy.
“We’ve got to get back to establishing basic democratic norms,” Biden told reporters in the White House East Room on Sunday. “I think what he did was a genuine threat to democracy. I’m hopeful that we are beyond that.”
Biden made the comments to the press after signing the Social Security Fairness Act.
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President Biden speaks to the media after signing the Social Security Fairness Act at the White House on Jan. 5, 2025. (CHRIS KLEPONIS/AFP via Getty Images)
“The bill I’m signing today is about a simple proposition. Americans who have worked hard all of their lives to earn an honest living should be able to retire with economic security and dignity,” he said. “That’s the entire purpose of the Social Security system crafted by Franklin Delano Roosevelt nearly 90 years ago.”
The president said that the signing “is the culmination of a four-year fight.”
“As the first president in more than 20 years to expand social security benefits, this victory is the culmination of a four-year fight to provide security for workers who dedicate their lives to their communities, and I’m proud to have played a small part in this fight,” Biden said.
President Biden speaks to the media after signing the Social Security Fairness Act at the White…
