Joe Biden is the President of the United States, the most powerful man in the world, and he lives a life of privilege. 

Donald Trump is a former President of the United States, vilified by all the Right People™, being hounded in multiple courts, slandered on every news channel and believes rightly or wrongly that he was cheated out of a victory in the last election. 

So if you didn't know better, would you believe that the occupant of the White House is the one trashing his country and driving division and the one currently being persecuted is singing the praises of this wonderful country?

I can't think of a better contrast between the candidates for president than these two clips from the last week.

Joe Biden went to a commencement at a historically black college. He told them they're victims and that America is an evil place that will always keep them down.… pic.twitter.com/S7vqSX3G0y

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) May 24, 2024

Joe Biden, who was Vice President under the first Black President of the United States, paints a dark and pessimistic view of his country. One filled with hate, injustice, random racial murders, and no hope even for Blacks graduating from college. 

Sure, the president is there to congratulate them. But rest assured, White Americans hate them and will crush their dreams. 

Donald Trump, a man who even his harshest critics in the media (outside MSNBC) admit is being persecuted in a New York courtroom, goes to the Deep Blue South Bronx and paints a picture of America in which everybody is welcome, everybody can succeed, and in which together we will build a brighter future. 

Which America do you want to live in? The one with a president who hates his fellow citizens, or the one who wants to replace the current crop with millions who flood across the border illegally? 

Both presidents present a world with friends and enemies--it's not like you can say that Trump doesn't paint a world with dark forces trying to bring us down. Both he and Biden describe worlds with good and bad people; it's just that those who fit into those categories are very different groups. 

For Biden, the bad people are ordinary Americans, the police, American patriots, and any White person who likes the nuclear family. 

For Trump, it's illegal immigrant invaders, the media, the Establishment, and our foreign adversaries. 

The good guys for Biden are Democrats, the alphabet people, Iran, and Ukraine. 

For Trump: anybody who loves America. That's his criteria.

It's no secret that I don't care for Trump as a human being and that I have major issues with his decision-making during the COVID pandemic. But I am in awe of how he has turned himself into an avatar for the everyman. I can't imagine how he has managed to absorb all the slings and arrows over the past few months, no less the past few years. 

He has a sunnier disposition now than before all this lawfare began. It is as if the fight itself energizes him. 

Watching those clips from the two speeches it's difficult, almost impossible to believe that Biden can win. His message is one of despair and hatred. There isn't a bit of hope or elevation there. 

I will never find Trump inspiring; it's not in me to identify with him. But I can now see why others do. 

No matter how hard they come at him he rises. Compare that to Biden. 

PITCH: 

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