Biden calls these 'dark days' as he urges Americans to 'get back up' [View all]
Source: ABC News
October 27, 2025, 1:56 AM
Former President Joe Biden called these “dark days” as he urged Americans to stay optimistic and not to check out in response to what he says are attacks on free speech and tests on the limits of executive power by President Donald Trump. “Since its founding, America served as a beacon for the most powerful idea ever in government in the history of the world,” Biden said. “The idea is stronger than any army. We’re more powerful than a dictator.”
Biden, 82, speaking publicly for the first time since completing a round of radiation therapy for an aggressive form of prostate cancer, addressed an audience in Boston on Sunday night after receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Edward M. Kennedy Institute.
He said America depends on a presidency with limited power, a functioning Congress and an autonomous judiciary. With the federal government facing its second-longest shutdown on record, Trump has used the funding laps as way to exercise new command over the government.
“Friends, I can’t sugar coat any of this. These are dark days” Biden said before predicting the country would “find our true compass again” and "emerge as we always have — stronger, wiser and more resilient, more just, so long as we keep the faith.”
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