My fellow Americans, I'm speaking to you tonight from the Oval Office.
Before I begin, let me speak to important news from earlier today.
After eight months of nonstop negotiation by my administration, a ceasefire and a hostage deal has been reached by Israel and Hamas, the elements of which I laid out in great detail in May of this year.
This plan was developed and negotiated by my team.
And it will be largely implemented by the incoming administration.
That's why I told my team to keep the incoming administration fully informed, because that's how it should be, working together as Americans.
This will be my final address to you from the American people from the Oval Office, from this desk as president.
And I've been thinking a lot about who we are, and maybe more importantly, who we should be.
Long ago, in New York Harbor, an iron worker installed beam after beam, day after day.
He was joined by steel workers, stonemasons, engineers.
