On Thursday, NBC’s Today comforted the comfortable in President Biden as they gushed over his “historic” speech aimed at explaining why he dropped out of the 2024 race (which, in actuality, he failed to do) and concluded with an ice cream social for administration officials and reporters alike.
A few minutes after co-host Craig Melvin teased “[r]eaction pouring into President Biden’s historic address to the nation”, the network did nothing to include an array of reactions aside from the First Family and former President Trump.
Co-host Savannah Guthrie set the table by describing the remarks “as an attempt to define his legacy while passing the torch to a new generation of leaders” and gave way to chief White House correspondent Peter Alexander touting Wednesday night as “the beginning of…an extended farewell”.
“The President…
