The president also addressed concerns about his age and announced plan for US troops to build port on Gaza shore for aid delivery<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/p>\n Good morning,<\/p>\n Joe Biden made a forceful State of the Union speech<\/a> on Thursday, criticising the former president Donald Trump over the January 6 insurrection, vowing to stand up to Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin, urging Israel to take responsibility in the delivery of aid to Gaza, backing reproductive freedom and taking on rightwing antagonists over immigration.<\/p>\n Threats to democracy:<\/strong> \u201cNot since President Lincoln and the civil war have our freedom and democracy been under assault at home as they are today,\u201d Biden said. \u201cWhat makes our moment rare is freedom and democracy are under attack both at home and overseas at the very same time.\u201d<\/p>\n Israel\u2019s war on Gaza:<\/strong> \u201cHumanitarian assistance cannot be a secondary consideration or a bargaining chip. Protecting and saving innocent lives has to be a priority\u201d for Israel, he said.<\/p>\n Abortion on the ballot:<\/strong> The president said efforts to restrict abortion were an \u201cassault on freedom\u201d, and he derided the supreme court ruling that overturned Roe v Wade.<\/p>\n The age question:<\/strong> Biden, 81, leaned into his age, mentioning he was born during the second world war, but defended his vision for the country as fresh. \u201cYou can\u2019t lead America with ancient ideas that only take us back,\u201d he said, referring to Trump.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The president also addressed concerns about his age and announced plan for US troops to build port on Gaza shore for aid delivery Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here Good morning, Joe Biden made a forceful State of the Union speech on Thursday, criticising the former president Donald Trump over … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}