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Barack Obama's farewell address was the final public speech of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States, delivered on January 10, 2017 at 9:00 p.m. EST. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The farewell address was broadcast on various television and radio stations and livestreamed online by the White House.
On July 19, 2013, President Obama gave a speech in place of the usual White House daily briefing normally given by White House Press Secretary Jay Carney. In the 17-minute speech, President Obama spoke about public reaction to the conclusion of the George Zimmerman trial, racial profiling, and the state of race relations in the United States. [46]
It was Obama's seventh and final State of the Union Address and his eighth and final speech to a joint session of the United States Congress. [2] Presiding over this joint session was the House speaker, Paul Ryan, accompanied by Joe Biden, the vice president, in his capacity as the president of the Senate.
President Barack Obama bids the nation farewell on Tuesday, leaving behind two terms served and one the most rocky legacies in U.S. political history.
President Barack Obama said farewell to the American people a little more than a week before Donald Trump took the Oval Office.
Obama's 2013 State of the Union Address was, in the words of CNN's Rebecca Sinderbrand, "a companion to the ideological offensive in his inauguration speech." The New York Times added: "Obama did not match the lofty tone of his inauguration speech, but the address was clearly intended to be its workmanlike companion.
Obama laughed as Trump added, “and after, I will,” before the pooled TV camera feed cut away from the men, who were bracketed by former first lady Laura Bush and Trump’s wife Melania.
[1] [2] It was Obama's first State of the Union Address and his second speech to a joint session of the United States Congress. Presiding over this joint session was the House speaker , Nancy Pelosi , accompanied by Joe Biden , the vice president , in his capacity as the president of the Senate .