MICHAEL GOODWIN: Joe Biden’s D-Day speech was a bitter mockery of Ronald Reagan.
Joe Biden’s trip to France proved two big things: He’s no Ronald Reagan, and he forgot to pack his patriotism.
Along the way, he also managed to cheapen historic heroes by trying to score partisan political points with attacks on Donald Trump and House Republicans.
Whatever happened to the tradition that partisanship stops at the water’s edge?
Other than that, heckuva job, Mr. President.
Biden’s visit to Normandy for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion was overshadowed from the start by Reagan’s exceptional speech at the same spot 40 years earlier.
Although the contrast must have eaten at Biden, who bitterly opposed almost everything Reagan did and stood for, White House aides used the Gipper’s speech as a guide for Biden’s.
Joe Biden’s trip to France proved two big things: He’s no Ronald Reagan, and he forgot to pack his patriotism.
Along the way, he also managed to cheapen historic heroes by trying to score partisan political points with attacks on Donald Trump and House Republicans.
To crib so shamelessly from Reagan’s 1984 speech, there has to be some sadistic element of the “anything you put on that teleprompter, Ron Burgundy will read” mindset to Biden’s speechwriters. They had to know that doing so would simultaneously cause reminders of Joe’s long history of plagiarism, and illustrate Biden’s increasingly diminishing state:
Joe Biden essentially plagiarized Ronald Reagan’s famous 1984 speech at Pointe du Hoc today in Normandy. Watch these clips side by side. Wow: pic.twitter.com/jeGgTS2Nnm
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) June 7, 2024