His administration would not disclose what the outgoing president planned to say in his speech. But in his final months he has been seeking to cement a legacy as a transformative president.

After four years in the White House – and a half-century in Washington – President Joe Biden has said farewell.

President Joe Biden bid farewell to the nation and his 50 year political career with an address warning against an oligarchy while offering optimism.

President Joe Biden will deliver a farewell address to the nation Wednesday night, seizing what may be his final opportunity to reshape Americans' grim views on his term before he departs the White House.

Speaking from the Oval Office, the president warned of a rising oligarchy, a potential tech-industrial complex and the threat of the climate crisis in his farewell address to the nation.