In his final speech from the Oval Office, President Biden urged the country to remember its roots and not surrender its values at the altar of a populist nationalism that he sees as dangerous.

President Joe Biden offered up a few surprises in his farewell address. Instead of simply summing up his term in office, he warned Wednesday about the increasing influence of the ultrawealthy, criticized disinformation on social media and called for continuing the fight against climate change.

After four years in the White House – and a half-century in Washington – President Joe Biden has said farewell.

To call this Biden’s political tragedy would be crass. This, after all, is a man who lived unending personal anguish after burying his first wife and two of his children. But it’s the fate he’s been handed by history — and his own grave electoral miscalculation.

Joe Biden’s last Oval Office address as president – the closing speech of his over five-decade political career – set off an immediate stream of reaction days before the president is set to return to life as a private citizen.