Joe Biden delivers a speech at the cliff-top monument at Pointe du Hoc in Cricqueville-en-Bessin, France, on June 7.
President Joe Biden has called on Americans to defend freedom and democracy, drawing an implicit contrast to Republican Donald Trump by invoking the heroism of the U. S. Army Rangers who scaled the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc on D-Day to reach a Nazi position.
Four decades ago, President Ronald Reagan delivered one of his most prominent speeches in the same place, urging Americans not to give in to isolationism and to stand up to the Soviet Union. By opting for this site, Biden sought to align himself with a former Republican. president to assume who embraced strongmen and championed an “America First” foreign policy.