Joe Biden's farewell address was the final official speech of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States, delivered in the Oval Office on January 15, 2025.
[1] Biden's wife Jill,[2] his son Hunter, Hunter's wife Melissa, their son Beau, Biden's granddaughter Finnegan, and vice president Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff were present in the Oval Office during the speech.
[3] He initially covered the history of the United States and described the Statue of Liberty as a representation of the U.S.[4] Biden claimed that an oligarchy was taking hold in the U.S.,[5][6] invoking Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address, in which Eisenhower argued that the military–industrial complex was influencing the country; he criticized the "tech-industrial complex".
He boasted of provisions to combat climate change in the Inflation Reduction Act.
[7] Biden indirectly criticized Meta Platforms's decision to end its fact-checking program.