{"id":215272,"date":"2026-06-28T23:56:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T23:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/biden-calls-trump-a-loser-portraying-him-as-incompetent-corrupt-and-vain-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T23:56:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T23:56:43","slug":"biden-calls-trump-a-loser-portraying-him-as-incompetent-corrupt-and-vain-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/biden-calls-trump-a-loser-portraying-him-as-incompetent-corrupt-and-vain-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden calls Trump \u2018a loser\u2019, portraying him as incompetent, corrupt and vain – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pugnacious speech invokes Trump\u2019s \u2018vanity projects\u2019 to makeover Washington and the \u2018brazen, blatant corruption\u2019
Joe Biden<\/a> called Donald Trump<\/a> \u201ca loser\u201d in a pugnacious speech on Saturday that invoked his presidential successor\u2019s attempted makeover of Washington DC to portray him as incompetent, corrupt and vain.
He delivered<\/a> those remarks while giving the keynote address at a gala in Hanover, Maryland, hosted by the state\u2019s Democratic party, which is hoping to help wrest control of Congress away from Trump and his Republican allies during November\u2019s midterm elections.
Biden\u2019s 10-minute discourse touched on Trump\u2019s demolition of the White House\u2019s East Wing to make space for a ballroom, the court-ordered removal of his name after he added it to the facade of the John Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, his plans for a triumphal arch, and the algae bloom that undermined his $14.7m renovation of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool<\/a>.
But \u201cit\u2019s not just his vanity projects\u201d in the nation\u2019s capital city that are a disgrace, Biden contended at the Live! Casino & Hotel Maryland. He also invoked how the administration has been seeking to compensate those convicted of \u2013 and then presidentially pardoned for \u2013 roles in the violent attack at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 after Trump\u2019s first Oval Office term ended in defeat to Biden.
\u201cWhoa!\u201d Biden said while reciting all of that. \u201cWhat a loser.\u201d
The reflecting pool project in particular \u2013 for which the federal government awarded<\/a> a $1.7m no-bid, filtration system contract to a Trump donor who is a neighbor of the president\u2019s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida \u2013 \u201creflects something even worse than the narcissism and incompetence at the core of this administration,\u201d Biden continued.
\u201cIt\u2019s the corruption \u2013 the corruption, the brazen, blatant corruption,\u201d Biden said. \u201cCorruption on a scale never seen before in American history in any administration.\u201d
Biden also criticized Trump\u2019s relationship with Vladimir Putin after the Russian leader\u2019s forces invaded Ukraine in 2022. And Biden accused Trump of \u201cdeliberate distortion and destruction\u201d of the Nato military alliance, widely seen as strained by the war that the US and Israel started in Iran in late February.
\u201cHe\u2019s diminished our standing in the world more than any president in history has,\u201d Biden, 83, said of Trump, 80.
Biden\u2019s comments on Saturday came exactly two years after a disastrous televised debate with Trump \u2013 a relentless critic of his \u2013 that preceded his decision to drop out of running for re-election in the November 2024 presidential race.
Trump subsequently won a second White House term by defeating Biden\u2019s endorsed candidate, Vice-President Kamala Harris<\/a>.
It also came at a time when his family was conspicuously becoming more visible on the political scene in the wake of his departure from office.
For instance, former first lady Jill Biden published her memoir View from the East Wing on 2 June. She appeared at an event promoting the book that day and \u2013 among other things \u2013 said<\/a> her husband\u2019s cancer diagnosis, announced<\/a> in May 2025, \u201creally puts life into perspective\u201d.
Biden\u2019s son Hunter, meanwhile, has gained himself fans through self-deprecating social media posts<\/a> covering topics such as politics, mental health and addiction recovery \u2013 something that was perhaps unexpected when his father, in the waning days of his presidency, issued him a pardon for convictions on federal gun and tax charges.
Prior to Saturday\u2019s gala, Biden had struck a more conventional tone in a statement attributed to him in anticipation of his address. \u201cI\u2019ve always believed democracy isn\u2019t a spectator sport,\u201d Biden\u2019s statement said, before praising political organizers for \u201cknocking on doors, making phone calls and putting in the time nobody sees but everyone benefits from\u201d.<\/p>\n

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