> After highlighting his efforts to thwart climate change, and how “we’ve proven we don’t have to choose between protecting the environment and growing the economy,” Biden said that “powerful forces want to wield their unchecked influence to eliminate the steps we’ve taken to tackle the climate crisis, to serve their own interests for power and profit.”

Biden, quoting President Dwight Eisenhower’s 1961 farewell address urging Americans to be wary of the “military-industrial complex,” offered a revised version for 2025.

> “Six decades later, I’m equally concerned about the potential rise of a tech-industrial complex that could pose real dangers for our country as well,” he said.

“Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation and disinformation, enabling the abuse of power. The free press is crumbling. Editors are disappearing. Social media is giving up on fact checking,” he said, alluding to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Trump-friendly decision to ditch fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram, where millions get their news.