Biden Rips Fox News’ Coverage of Him in Stump Speech: ‘We Have the Strongest Economy in the World’

President Joe Biden named-checked Fox News in a speech on Friday while taking issue with the network’s coverage of his State of the Union address the night before.

Speaking before the joint session of Congress, Biden repeatedly attacked his predecessor Donald Trump, who will likely be the Republican presidential nominee. The president battled Republican hecklers while laying his vision for the country, which afterward was criticized by multiple Fox News pundits.

At a campaign event in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Friday, Biden made his case for reelection and took a detour to hit an unnamed Fox News commentator for accusing him of trying to “ruin America”:

I was watching on television last night about two in the morning after he got back to the house. The house. The White House. Still hard to think of it as home. I had the TV on. There was a Fox News commentator saying, “You know, Biden is changing from trickle-down economics to build from the middle-out, the bottom-up. Gonna ruin America.”

“Ruin America? We have the strongest economy in the world right now. Like I said–

[APPLAUSE]

Like I said – and I mean this sincerely – and I believed my whole career, finally got it done. If we focus on the middle class– first of all, first of all, they’re the heart and soul and sinew of the country. If you focus on them and give them an even chance, the poor have a way up and the wealthy still do very, very well. Still do very well.

As I said, I’m a capitalist, but capitalism, when it turns to– engaged in non-competition, it ends up being just stealing.

Though Fox’s coverage of Biden’s speech was highly critical, a search of a TV transcript database yielded no such accusation of Biden seeking to “ruin America” on either Fox News Channel or Fox Business Network.

Of all the network’s on-air talent, Sean Hannity was perhaps the most critical, slamming “Jacked-Up Joe” for sounding “like a hyper-caffeinated, angry, old man.”

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