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The Daily Signal Podcast

Victor Davis Hanson: Joe Biden is no Dwight D. Eisenhower

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🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

On today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” a Daily Signal original, Hanson critically analyzes Joe Biden's farewell address, pointing out the hypocrisy in Biden's warnings about a new oligarchy. Hanson compares Biden's speech to Dwight D. Eisenhower's historic warning about the military-industrial complex and argues Biden lacks credibility. “But remember Joe Biden is no Dwight Eisenhower. He had credibility. He was a two-term president. He was the hero of what he called the American crusade in Europe, from the beaches of Normandy in June 1944, all the way into the interior of Germany. So, people believed him. Unfortunately, Joe Biden has no such credibility.”  ”I'm not a big fan of Mark Zuckerberg, and he was a hostile opponent of Donald Trump, but whether you like him or not, he revolutionized Facebook. So, these so-called oligarchs, David Sachs, or Peter Thiel, or Elon Musk, or Mark Zuckerberg, or Jeff Bezos, they are ‘can-do’ people. And Trump has them around him now. They're making kind of a hajj to Mar-a-Lago, not because he wants to have some consortium and rig the market or punish his enemies, but because they make things. They're very similar to the captains of industry, the ‘dollar-a-day’ men, that Franklin Delano Roosevelt enlisted to win World War II.” The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: https://www.dailysignal.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I think all of you may have heard or tuned in to Joe Biden's farewell address where he warned

0:35.2

about a new oligarchy or multi-billionaires

0:38.1

that have undue influence.

0:40.1

So he's obviously alluding to Donald Trump.

0:42.4

It's hypocritical.

0:43.9

Joe Biden gave the Medal of Honor to George Soros.

0:47.2

The Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hansson for the Daily Signal.

1:02.5

The word oligarchs is in the news lately.

1:05.5

I think all of you may have heard or tuned in to Joe Biden's farewell address,

1:10.2

where he warned about a new

1:12.2

oligarchy or multi-billionaires that have undue influence in the United States. It's kind of

1:18.1

strange because it's at the end of his four-year tenure, so he's obviously alluding to Donald Trump.

1:24.0

A couple of things to think about when he brings up this topic of oligarchy.

1:29.3

He's trying to resonate in his farewell address.

1:33.4

Ike Dwight D. Eisenhower's speech some 64 years earlier,

1:38.9

warning about a military industrial complex that we're going to perpetuate

1:43.4

huge government bureaucracies, build

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