White House senior adviser Keisha Lance Bottoms argued that President Biden’s recent address to the nation condemning “MAGA Republicans” was an “optimism” that spoke to all Americans regardless of political party. “What I see in this speech, I see words of encouragement, I see optimism, I see a commander-in-chief calling out to all of us, regardless of our political affiliation,” Bottoms, a former Atlanta mayor. he said Sunday during an appearance on ABC’s “This Week.” “All of us? He certainly wasn’t calling out MAGA supporters. He cited them more than a dozen times as a threat to democracy,” answered host Martha Raddatz. Critics slammed Biden for what they say was an angry speech in which the president repeatedly took aim at the millions of Americans who voted for former President Donald Trump in 2020. The set of the speech was also ridiculed for having a “red” background that was labeled as “infernal”. BIDEN SHOCKS VIEWERS WITH ‘RED BACKGROUND’ FOR POLITICAL SPEECH “MAGA Republicans don’t respect the Constitution,” Biden said Thursday, flanked by Marines in front of a red backdrop. “They don’t believe in the rule of law. They don’t recognize the will of the people.” BIDEN DEMONS ‘MAGA DEMOCRAFT’, BUT DEMOCRATS SPENT $46 BILLION MORE TO HELP TRUMP CANDIDATES WIN PRIMARIES “This is a nation that believes in the rule of law,” he added. “We don’t deny it.” Bottoms argued during Sunday’s interview that the “MAGA agenda” is about “distorting the truth” and urged people to read Biden’s speech on the White House website to understand his words of “optimism.” NEW ORLEANS, LA – JULY 07: Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms speaks on stage during the 2018 Essence Festival presented by Coca-Cola at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on July 7, 2018 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images for Essence) (Paras Griffin/Getty Images for Essence) TRUMP SAYS BIDEN’S ANTI-MAGA SPEECH: ‘HE’S THE ENEMY OF THE STATE’ “That’s what this MAGA agenda is all about. It’s about twisting the truth. It’s about misleading people. It’s about releasing information that makes people angry. And I just encourage people, go to the website of the White House, at whitehouse.gov. Read the speech for yourself.” Trump criticized Biden’s speech at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on Saturday night, calling the president an “enemy of the state.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP “This week, Joe Biden came to Philadelphia to deliver the most vicious, hateful and divisive speech ever given by an American president,” Trump told the crowd. “Defamation of 75 million citizens, plus probably another 75 to 150, if we want to be precise about it, as threats to democracy and enemies of the state. You are all enemies of the state.” Trump continued: “He’s the enemy of the state, if you want to know the truth.”
