“This year we have witnessed tremendous courage, strength, resilience and determination for all of you who care, comfort, educate, protect and serve the country on a large and small scale,” Biden wrote in a letter also signed by his wife: Jill Biden by the occasion of Christmas.
“They demonstrate time and time again that our differences are precious and our similarities are endless,” added the Democrat, who leads a country deeply divided on many issues.
“We pray for the promise of the gospel to find light in the dark, which is perhaps America’s greatest effort,” says a message from Joe Biden, a devout Catholic.
Joe Biden and Jill Biden, accompanied by their new four-legged companion, a German shepherd puppy named Commander, also took part in a virtual conversation with the military.
“As Supreme Commander, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you, thank you, thank you. This is a little compensation for what they have lost, ”in other words, a vacation with family,” Joe Biden said in front of screens showing soldiers in Qatar and Bahrain, Romania and Colorado.
“You are the backbone of this nation,” the US president emphasized, recalling that his son Bo, who died in 2015, was in Iraq, and Jill Biden talked about her father, who served in the Navy during World War II on Monday.
Faced with an America weary of a pandemic and frustrated with rising inflation, the presidential couple has given special attention this year to the traditions of the period, whether forgiving a turkey on Thanksgiving or decorating the White House.
Regardless, Joe Biden was surprised Friday by the particularly dire political climate in the United States.
In a telephone conversation with his family about Santa Claus, the caller shouted, “Come on, Brandon” – a passphrase popular among supporters of former President Donald Trump for insulting Joe Biden, AFP reports.
