President Biden issued a warning about the state of the press during his farewell address, while CNN’s Jim Acosta used the sign off to tell Americans that the press are not the enemy of the people, something incoming President Donald Trump has long said after years of unfair media coverage. Acosta, who has long been confrontational with conservatives and Trump, held up a sign gifted to him during a Washington march, calling the press “defenders of the people” and quoting journalist Walter Cronkite.

Jim Acosta gears up for Resistance 2.0 with clown world propaganda riff, says the job of journalists is to tell the truth and hold the powerful accountable.

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“We are not the enemies of the people, we are the defenders of the people.”

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— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) January 16, 2025

“President Biden said during his farewell address. He warned the free press is crumbling in this country. I would add that only if we, the people, let that happen. Journalists exist to seek the truth, to tell people stories, to lift up voices that may not be heard otherwise to shine a light on injustice and to hold the powerful accountable. We are not the enemy of the people, we are the defenders of the people. Walter Cronkite once said freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy. I want to take a moment to show you something, a woman sent me this sign eight years ago. She carried it here at a march in Washington,” Acosta, who even authored a book titled “The Enemy of the People: a dangerous time to tell the truth in America”,  said before holding up a sign showing a fist holding a pencil with the words, ‘I march for Jim Acosta and a Free Press.’

We are not the enemy of the people. I am not your enemy. You are not my enemy. It is wrong to call your fellow Americans the enemy. We are all on the same team. We are all Americans.

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) October 29, 2018

“She wrote on the back of the sign to me and the press here in DC, ‘you have our support.’ To Nora, wherever you are, right back at you,” Acosta said before signing off. 

Biden’s comments come despite years of deception, avoiding tough interviews with the press, and hostility towards journalists who do not align with the leftist vision his administration sought to implement.