President-elect Trump is calling on his fellow Americans to come together and “heal our divisions” this Thanksgiving, but acknowledges hard feelings over the election result won’t “heal overnight.”
“It is my prayer, that on this Thanksgiving, we begin to heal our divisions and move forward as one country, strengthened by a shared purpose and very, very common resolve,” Trump said in a Thanksgiving message posted to YouTube on Wednesday.
Trump called on Americans to speak with “one voice and one heart,” a nod to a Thanksgiving address given by President Abraham Lincoln.
“We have just finished a long and bruising political campaign,” Trump said. “Emotions are raw and tensions just don’t heal overnight,” he added, perhaps alluding to demonstrations in cities across the nation protesting his election victory over Hillary Clinton.
The president-elect alluded to his campaign promise to “drain the swamp” of Washington, D.C., and bring prosperity to all Americans, including in “our inner cities.”
“But to succeed, we must enlist the effort of our entire nation,” he said.
“This historic political campaign is now over,” Trump said. “Now begins a great national campaign to rebuild our country and to restore the full promise of America for all of our people.”
