FULL SPEECH: President Biden's first prime-time address to the nation

One year after the nation was brought to a near-standstill by the coronavirus, President Joe Biden used his first prime-time address Thursday night to announce his plan to make all adults vaccine-eligible by May 1 and “begin to mark our independence from this virus” by the Fourth of July. He offered Americans fresh hope and appealed anew for their help.

Speaking in the White House East Room, Biden announced moves to speed vaccinations, including lifting eligibility qualifications, deploying an additional 4,000 active-duty troops to support vaccination efforts and allowing more people — such as medical students, veterinarians and dentists — to deliver shots.

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[miguelcabrera]

I think keeping him in office could almost be considered elderly abuse. Somebody help this man

[WendellD]

Lots of drama in this speech for a virus that 99.5 % recover

[paulnorth]

A whole lot of words and we are being told nothing. What they are doing to this old man is an outrage.

[chewie]

I see strings holding him up, who is the puppet master?

[michellesucco]

they got nothing except for tryting to put blame on Trump...still! Give me a what a joke. God Help us!!!

[michaelmakoi]

They should just turn the Teleprompter around so people can read it themselves...LOLLLL

[starrmasion]

This whole speech of Biden’s is, so dark and the energy he projected to his audience is, so dark and miserable. He’s filling the world with misery, fear, and despair. He had no uplifting tone nor did he have anything uplifting to say to help people with coping with this plandemic

[squizzyicetea]

This is meant to be a LIVE address to this Nation. He does NOT care.

[AtumnLeaf]

"My fellow Americans." PLEASE. We are not YOUR fellow Americans when you are stomping all over us and not putting us first.

[starrmasion]

Hey YouTube, I will not and do not consent to your community guidelines!

[Lamplighter]

Let's call adult protective services and get him out of this abusive home he is in

[jackstarnrs]

Explain why gas is so high doctor covid

[MichaelSmith-rbyb]

Okay, that's no State of the Union Address. It's not even called that in the title. What the heck is going on?

[adelehill]

I am high risk, so why am I waiting in line behind 3, 000 people to get vaccinated ???

[cristeromoderno-apologetic]

Hypocrisy talking about "divided instead of unititing". Sir America is divided because your party divided it.

[charlie_deadOG]

Like he wears it every day as he's telling you what you can and cannot do this is crazy

[allenrappaport]

NyQuil should find a way to bottle him.

[vleugelman]

I've seen better film on teeth! 🤢🤮🤢😱

[jakezuidema]

World war II alone claimed 417, 000 American lives world war I was 290, 000 American livesthe Vietnam war had 58, 000 American casualties

[vivalarica]

LIES, LIES & more LIES! Disgusting!