President Biden shared his holiday message by calling into NBC’s broadcast of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday and saying Americans should “stop the rancor.”
“On this Thanksgiving day, Al, we have to come together,” he told the network’s Al Roker. “We can have different political views, but we have one view. The one view is we’re the finest, greatest nation in the world. We should focus on that.”
He added, “We should focus on dealing with our problems and being together and stop the rancor. We have to bring the nation together and treat each other with a little bit of decency, and I think that’s where the vast majority of the American people are.”
First lady Jill Biden added that everyone should “commit to an act of kindness.”
The couple called in from Nantucket, Massachusetts, where they traditionally spend Thanksgiving and on this day stopped at the Nantucket Fire Department to deliver pumpkin pies.
The duo also called service members “to offer our sincere gratitude for the sacrifices they make every day to protect our freedom,” Mr. Biden posted on X. “They’re the best of us.”
• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.
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