Joe Biden’s announcement that he is not seeking another term as president ranks among the most important and consequential statements from a president in history; you just don’t see many commanders in chief who are eligible for another term decide to hang it up.
And Biden told the public through Twitter/X.
He didn’t do it on camera. (The president’s doctor says he’s recovering from Covid well.) He didn’t do it in a radio address. No, he did it on Elon Musk’s social-media platform, the one that is allegedly dying, no longer popular, and supposedly being replaced by other platforms.
This is a huge day in American history and one of the biggest and best days in X/Twitter history.