{"id":215330,"date":"2026-06-29T11:06:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T11:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-biden-says-trump-has-diminished-us-standing-in-the-world-as-he-attacks-his-successor-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T11:06:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T11:06:55","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-biden-says-trump-has-diminished-us-standing-in-the-world-as-he-attacks-his-successor-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-biden-says-trump-has-diminished-us-standing-in-the-world-as-he-attacks-his-successor-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: Biden says Trump has \u2018diminished\u2019 US standing in the world as he attacks his successor – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former president calls Trump \u2018a loser\u2019 and criticizes his attempted makeover of Washington. Key US politics stories from Sunday 28 June at a glance

Joe Biden<\/a> has said Donald Trump<\/a> has diminished America\u2019s standing in the world \u201cmore than any president in history\u201d.
The former president delivered remarks highly critical of his successor, 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.
Calling Trump \u201ca loser\u201d, Biden invoked his presidential successor\u2019s attempted makeover of Washington DC to portray him as incompetent, corrupt and vain.
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>.
Biden also criticized Trump\u2019s relationship with Vladimir Putin and accused Trump of \u201cdeliberate distortion and destruction\u201d of the Nato military alliance.
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A new round of escalating strikes between Iran and the US has continued, further undermining the fragile interim peace agreement between the two countries, and prompting Trump to threaten violence that would ensure Iran \u201cwill no longer exist\u201d.
On Sunday, Tehran launched drone and missile attacks against Bahrain and Kuwait after new US strikes<\/a> on sites in southern Iran, and threatened a \u201ccomplete halt\u201d to negotiations to end the war. Trump said that a moment might come soon when he abandoned talks and the US would \u201cmilitarily finish the job\u201d.
The US president posted on social media: \u201cIf that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran<\/a> will no longer exist!\u201d
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Migrants in the US on temporary protected status should seek permanent residence or leave, Markwayne Mullin, the Homeland Security secretary, said in the wake of last week\u2019s supreme court decision<\/a> that stripped humanitarian protections from hundreds of thousands of immigrants.
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An opaque White House office staffed largely by veterans of Elon Musk\u2019s \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge) has quietly rebuilt some of the federal government\u2019s most sensitive websites \u2013 for passport applications, voter registration, prescription-drug pricing and children\u2019s savings \u2013 in ways critics say appear to violate federal law.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Bill Cassidy, the Republican senator from Louisiana who is being ousted from his position after Trump successfully backed a challenger in May\u2019s primary, has accused the US president of treating Congress as \u201cmerely an appendage\u201d in his handling of the Iran war.
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Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor, said on Sunday that he and a slew of democratic socialist allies who prevailed in recent primary elections are carrying a \u201cnational message\u201d<\/a><\/strong> to struggling working Americans hungry for a new kind of politics \u201ccoast to coast\u201d.
Three firefighters were killed and two others were hurt while responding to wildfires along the Colorado-Utah border<\/a><\/strong>, officials announced on Sunday.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened Saturday 27 June<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Former president calls Trump \u2018a loser\u2019 and criticizes his attempted makeover of Washington. Key US politics stories from Sunday 28 June at a glance Joe Biden has said Donald Trump has diminished America\u2019s standing in the world \u201cmore than any president in history\u201d.The former president delivered remarks highly critical of his successor, while giving the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-215330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}