John Rich Rips Into Biden

Opinionated country singer John Rich has taken aim at Joe Biden over his State of the Union (SOTU) address.

He accused the president of being "angry" during his speech to a joint sitting of Congress on March 7—which was described to Newsweek as a "hell of a speech" by Heath Brown, associate professor of public policy at the City University of New York.

"He was a bulldog in this SOTU. He was combative, funny, and aggressive. It also was the most pro-union speech I've ever heard from a U.S. president," Brown added at the time.

A CNN poll found that 65 percent of those who watched SOTU reacted positively to Biden's speech, including 35 percent who reacted "very positively."

But Rich was less than impressed and argued the president's display of passion made it harder for Democrats to "25th Amendment him from office." The 25th Amendment of the U.S. constitution refers to "presidential vacancy," and the way a president could be removed from office.

"Due to Joe's angry, screaming state of the union speech, the Dems are now forced to say he's 'Still got it' thus, making it 1,000 times harder to 25th Amendment him from office," Rich wrote on X, formerly Twitter on Tuesday.

"They are being forced to wear him around their necks like a ball and chain all the way to the end, and they know he can't win. Had he fallen apart during that speech, they would have had a much easier route to replace him. A classic catch 22."

During the SOTU, which was generally well received, Biden listed his accomplishments since taking office, such as reviving the U.S. economy, and announced plans to provide aid to Gaza, which would include the U.S. military establishing a temporary pier off its coast to provide life-saving humanitarian assistance to besieged Palestinian territory.

Biden also used the speech to hit out at Donald Trump, his likely opponent at November's presidential election, for running on a campaign of "hate, anger, revenge, retribution."

As for Rich, he is no stranger to sharing his opinions on X.

He went viral in February for sharing his thoughts on gun control, writing "When Kennedy was shot, nobody blamed the gun," referring to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963.

Gun violence continues to be a fatal epidemic in the U.S. where 3,139 have been killed by a gun so far in 2024 and there has already been 74 mass shootings, according to the Gun Violence Archive.