President Biden took a departing jab at Trump, saying what the president-elect did was a “real 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 need to get back to establishing basic democratic norms,” Biden told reporters in the East Room of the White House on Sunday. “I think what he did was a genuine threat to democracy. I’m hopeful that we’ve moved beyond that.”
Biden made the comments to the press after signing the Social Security Fairness Act.
Biden also discussed his plans to visit New Orleans on Monday to mourn with relatives of victims and meet with officials following the terrorist attack in the city on New Year’s Day.
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President Biden speaks to the media after signing the Social Security Fairness Act on January 5, 2025 at the White House. (CHRIS KLEPONIS/AFP via Getty Images)
“I’ve been there. There’s nothing you can really say to someone who has suffered such a tragic loss. And my message will be personal to them,” he said. “They just have to hold each other and one day they will think of their loved one and smile before a tear comes to their eyes.”
President Biden speaks to the media after signing the Social Security Fairness Act on January 5, 2025 at the White House. (CHRIS KLEPONIS/AFP via Getty Images)
The visit comes after 14 people were killed and dozens injured after police said 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar rammed a rented pickup into pedestrians on bustling Bourbon Street early Wednesday morning. Police fatally shot Jabbar after he opened fire on officers.
“We have determined beyond a reasonable doubt that New Orleans was a single man acting alone. All the talk about conspiracies with other people, there’s no evidence of that, zero,” Biden said.
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‘He had real problems in terms of his own, I think, mental health. And he only acted in a similar manner to what happened in Las Vegas,” Biden said. “But there is no evidence, zero evidence to support the idea that these are foreigners crossing the border, but they worked here and stayed here.”
