The long national nightmare is over.

And it's how my former colleague Jake Tapper described the end of Trump's first term.

That was mere moments after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 election.

And then Jake went on to call Trump's four years in the White House.

And I quote here, a time of cruelty, a time when truth and in fact, were treated with disdain and an error of just plain meanness.

Now, it was a journalistic tour to force, I have to admit, unrelenting in its honesty.

Take a listen. Here it is.

It's been a time of several significant and utterly avoidable failures most tragically.

Of course, the unwillingness to respect

facts and science and do everything that can be done to save lives during a pandemic. It has been a time

where truth and fact were treated with disdain. It is a time of cruelty. We're official inhumanity,

such as child separation, became the official shameful policy of the United States.

But now the Trump presidency is coming to an end, to an end, with so many squandered opportunities and ruined potential,

but also an era of just plain meanness.

It must be said, to paraphrase President Ford, for tens of millions

of our fellow Americans, their long national nightmare is over.

Look, Bravo, Jake. Not many that day had the courage of their convictions to speak the plain

truth. Trump was still contesting the election.

He was claiming he was the right for winner. He was already asserting, and falsely, I should add,

that he had evidence, that he had evidence proving that the results were fraudulent. That monologue

made me feel proud to be a journalist.

It made me proud that we have dedicated our lives to speaking truth to power.

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