President Joe Biden narrated a shocking tour of the adorned White Home and wished the nation a “Merry Christmas and Completely happy 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 way of rooms of Christmas bushes and even one that includes a carousel. A luxurious show of baked items caught the digicam’s eye as nicely.
A earlier Biden vacation put up 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 reward is given” from a passage in “O Little City of Bethlehem.” He additionally spoke of the beginning 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 People,” he stated. “So my hope this Christmas season is that we take a number of moments of quiet reflection and discover that stillness within the coronary heart of Christmas and have a look at one another as who we actually are: fellow People, fellow human beings worthy of being handled with dignity and respect. As a result of there’s a lot that unites as People, a lot extra that unites us than divides us.”
