President Joe Biden narrated a shocking tour of the adorned White House and wished the nation a “Merry Christmas and Glad Holidays” in a video posted to X on Tuesday. (Watch it beneath.)
The sunshine-filled journey, which appeared to be filmed by a drone, roamed by means of rooms of Christmas timber and even one that includes a carousel. A luxurious show of baked items caught the digital camera’s eye as effectively.
A earlier Biden vacation submit triggered some conservatives as a result of he didn’t point out Christmas particularly. However in a reverent voiceover for the White Home tour, the outgoing president famous “how silently the wondrous present is given” from a passage in “O Little Town of Bethlehem.” He additionally spoke of the delivery of the kid “Christians consider to be the son of God bringing hope and love and peace and pleasure to the world.”
Biden then pivoted to a extra secular message:
“Too typically we see one another as enemies ― not as neighbors, not as fellow Individuals,” he stated. “So my hope this Christmas season is that we take just a few moments of quiet reflection and discover that stillness within the coronary heart of Christmas and take a look at one another as who we actually are: fellow Individuals, fellow human beings worthy of being handled with dignity and respect. As a result of there’s a lot that unites as Individuals, a lot extra that unites us than divides us.”
