President Trump gives his farewell address.

The media go full Meg Ryan in when Harry met Sally over Joe Biden,

and President Biden's early picks don't inspire a lot of confidence.

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They are indeed simply smarter wireless. Okay, so today is President Trump's last day in office.

He is leaving around noon today, or he left around noon today, depending on when you're listening

to this. And Joe Biden is slated to take office around noon Eastern time. He'll be sworn in

slightly before then. That is when he is going to be giving his inauguration

address, and we'll be covering that a little bit later on when he actually gives it. But first, President Trump has to leave. President Trump gave a farewell address last night. And honestly, listening to the farewell address, it makes you sad for a couple of reasons. One, what we're about to get from the Biden administration is not going to be conducive to American liberty.

For all the talk about the wonders of Joe Biden, which we'll get to in just a second, and how he's going to bring the country together, the reality is the next four years are going to be a time in which many of your core liberties are encroached upon. Religious liberty will be encroached upon, freedom of speech will be encroached upon, freedom of association will be encroached upon, all in the name of healing and unity. That is what we can expect over the next four years. I hope that that is not so. As with every president, every week in Scholl. In my synagogue, we pray for the government of the United States, including the president of the United States. We'll continue to do that for Joe Biden, obviously, because you pray for the person who is holding the office.

I just pray that Joe Biden doesn't do what his base wants him to do, which is to encroach upon those core liberties that Americans hold dear.

So seeing Trump leave office, and in some ways he was a bulwark against a lot of those encroachments, that's sad.

It's also sad to hear Trump's farewell address in the sense that you hear what could have been had he stayed on message. This is something that so many of us said for years at a time, which was Trump is giving us all this good policy, right? He's giving us the judges that we want. He's giving us the foreign policy that we want. He's giving us a booming economy. Why can't he just stay out of his own way? Why doesn't he just stay on the teleprompter? So last night, he gives his farewell address. And his farewell address is replete with a bunch of statements that, frankly, are great. He says a lot of things here that I wish he had just said for four years. And by the way, if he had said that for four years long, then he wouldn't be leaving the White

House with this with this sort of aura of depression, right? If he had, he probably wouldn't

be leaving the White House at all if he had stopped with the extraneous nonsense that he was doing

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