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Trump says 'best is yet to come' in New Year's Eve address, Internet says he has '19 days to pack and leave'

Trump also boasted about his presidency and reminded the people of the United States that the country 'is greater than ever before' and it was due to the four years that he spent in the Oval Office

Despite counting down the days till he will be out of the office and President-elect Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th leader of the country, President Donald Trump addressed the nation on New Year's Eve to insist that the "best is yet to come." He also boasted about his presidency and reminded the people of the United States that the country "is greater than ever before" and it was due to the four years that he spent in the Oval Office. The POTUS touted the "incredible grit, strength, tenacity, and resolve" shown by the country in the face of incredible challenges that people faced in 2020. 

In the five-minute-long video, the president claimed that the US "achieved truly historic victories like nobody ever thought possible" after he started to lead the country. He then went on to tout the measures taken by the administration after the coronavirus outbreak took place in the nation. the POTUS claimed that his administration "launched the largest mobilization since World War II" to defeat the pandemic. 

"Nobody thought it could be done," Trump said, speaking of how factories created ventilators and produced masks at breakneck speed. "We ignored the experts who demanded open borders and we shut down travel from China and Europe to protest our citizens," he said of his travel restrictions earlier this year. He also claimed to have "we saved millions of American lives" by speeding up the creation of the vaccine for the virus under his administration's Operation Warp Speed, which would otherwise have taken years to develop. "All of the experts said absolutely unthinkable, Trump is exaggerating, it can't happen. And we did it – long before the end of the year," he said. 

So far the Food and Drug Administration has approved two vaccines for emergency use in the US, from Moderna and Pfizer. He also went onto claim that his administration had begun a nationwide distribution of the vaccines and soon will be able to send it worldwide, for which leaders from different countries had called to thank him.

"We will end the pandemic once and for all," Trump said, adding that his administration should be remembered as a historic one. "This is one of the most extraordinary scientific, industrial, and medical feats in history. Everybody has it as that. That's what they're marking it down as, and we can never let people forget where it came from, and how it came. We have to be remembered for what's been done."

Many of the people on social media reminded Trump that his tenure was about to come to an end after he lost the election this year. "@realDonaldTrump There are 19 days, 22 hours, 7 minutes and 49 seconds left until @JoeBiden is President," one of them said, while another wrote, "You have 19 days to pack and leave." 

A third noted, "Trump said he'd run the country like he runs his businesses. Seems like we're at the point where he declares America's bankruptcy, crumbled democracy and runs away unscathed." One more quipped, "Still grasping at straws, I see." The next remarked, saying, "And then one day, it was January 20, 2021 and he was gone. Everyone cheered, for they knew the 4 year nightmare was over." Another commented, "God Bless the NY state prosecutors who will finally get to do their jobs in 21 days."