All posts tagged "Speech"

President Donald Trump delivered a nationally televised address carried by all major networks, and repeated many claims that have already been widely debunked.

On Wednesday, CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale singled out eight of the president's most obvious lies in what he characterized as a "half-asleep kind of presidential speech." He began by breaking down Trump's claims about having "stopped" inflation, pointing out that inflation was still ongoing. He then said that Trump's claim of inheriting record-high inflation was false, and that at the time former President Joe Biden left office, inflation was at three percent, which is where it was in September (the most recent month of data available).

Third, Dale pivoted to Trump's claim about lowering drug prices "by 400 to 600 percent," and described the statement as "mathematically impossible."...

President Joe Biden's major speech came on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021 anniversary and was roundly praised by pundits for taking it to Donald Trump and MAGA for decimating the founding ideals of America.

“Today we’re here to answer the most important of questions: Is democracy still America’s sacred cause,” he said while about 10 miles from Valley Forge National Historical Park, where 250 years ago George Washington rallied troops during the Revolutionary War. “It’s what the 2024 election is all about.”

The president’s remarks were inspired by the 2021 insurrection attempt, when a Trump-inspired mob stormed the U.S. Capitol and attempted to prevent Biden from taking office despite his clear victory in the 2020 election....

Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to hold an address at an auto parts plant in Clinton Township, Michigan, on Wednesday night at 8:00pm EST.

The event, which comes one day after President Joe Biden joined the picket line of striking United Auto Workers in Detroit, has come under criticism from workers due to the fact that the plant in question is not unionized.

The former president was already warned by UAW not to go through with this speech — but he disregarded them....

A 17-year-old senior at Sequoyah High School, Chris Sigler, claimed his principal shoved and verbally harassed him last week for wearing a t-shirt in support of establishing a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) club.

In his speech to the "Take Back The American Dream" conference Monday, former Obama advisor Van Jones held up the "Occupy Wall Street" movement as an example of what progressives could do to force change.