Published March 7, 2024
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told Newsmax on Thursday that everything President Joe Biden has touched since former President Donald Trump left office in 2021 “has been a disaster,” leaving him with “nothing to brag about” in his State of the Union address.
Johnson covered a range of issues in a sit-down interview with Greta Van Susteren, host of “The Record with Greta Van Susteren,” on Capitol Hill, looking ahead to Thursday night’s State of the Union, which Johnson said is in “decline” on Biden’s watch.
Johnson has a catbird seat for his first SOTU as speaker, seated directly behind Biden during the address. However, he said he’d much rather be taking in a message of prosperity vs. the “different reality than we have right now,” including a president who’s “missing a step” on the world stage.
“You look at the contrast on election day between President Trump and President Biden. I mean, it is a stark contrast, night and day,” Johnson told Van Susteren. “Everybody knows what President Trump can deliver because we did that.
“After the first two years his administration, we had the greatest economy in the history of the world, not just the U.S. — ever. In every demographic, everybody was doing better,” Johnson said. “The world was safer. We were projecting, you know, strength on the world stage. And so we were maintaining peace because of it. In terms of public policy, in terms of our standing around the globe, it was just a much different reality than we have right now.
