Fox News host Chris Wallace had high praise for President Biden’s inaugural address, saying it was the “best” that he’s “ever heard.”
“I thought it was a great speech,” Wallace said on Fox shortly after Biden completed his address. “I thought this was the best inaugural address I ever heard.”
Wallace pointed out that “obviously” Biden’s address “was colored by the emotion” of the U.S. Capitol siege earlier this month, but appreciated Biden’s call for future unity despite those events.
“There was a mob of thugs, of insurrectionists, of domestic terrorists on the inaugural stand,” Wallace said. “And Joe Biden was saying that democracy prevailed. We were able to get through that, and he was talking about how we need to get through that in the future if we are going to be a united country.”
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Wallace also said he appreciated Biden’s call to defeat white supremacy and domestic terrorism, calling the speech “part sermon, part pep-talk.”
“It was a call to our better angels, a call saying, ‘Look, we’ve got tremendous challenges, COVID, the economy, racial injustice, climate change, but there’s nothing we can’t do if we come together,’” Wallace said.
But Wallace warned that Biden will now face the real challenge of putting his words into action.
“This is the easy part, as has been suggested,” Wallace said. “Now, he’s gotta turn words, rhetoric into reality and action, but I thought it was a great start.”
Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States Wednesday after a tumultuous campaign that spilled into 2021 as former President Donald Trump made claims of election fraud that failed to overturn the results of the election.
Biden’s inaugural message mostly centered on healing the divisions, calling “unity” the “path forward” for the country, and promising such a path “will not fail.”
