Washington
CNN
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Joe Biden left the White House almost a month ago, but he is not far from Donald Trump’s heart.
The former president has been a recurring punchline and punching bag in almost every look since Trump returned to power. With Republicans who have full control of Washington, Trump is looking for Foyle, and Biden is at the top of the list.
“A lot of this is due to Biden,” Trump said last week in an oval office, referring to federal employees being allowed to work remotely. “It’s his fault.”
For Trump, Buck stops with Biden – not with him. It was a new wrinkle in the indication that “the bag will stop here” was sitting at Harry Truman’s desk, and has since been a guide to most presidents.
The list of challenges Trump and his team have denounced Biden is long. High prices of eggs, crashing passenger planes on the Potomac River, disaster relief from FEMA, wars in Gaza and Ukraine, spreading terrorists, widening trade deficits in Somalia and the US, worsening relations with Beijing.
“I think Biden is incompetent,” Trump said. He called out his predecessor eight times on Thursday, as he condemned him for the Russian-Ukraine war. “When he said they could join NATO, I think it was a very stupid thing.”
While all the issues of presidency are closely tied, the Bidens hold a rare place in history, and his administration is sandwiched between Trump’s Article 1 and Second Conditions. When Biden took office, he made a point that he wouldn’t mention Trump by name.
For years, Biden has occupied a singular place in Trump’s mind, and aides say he is an eternal rival who never lost in the ballot box. Trump enjoys using Biden as a ratio phor for the harsh contrast between style and substance.
As Trump settles into his routine of signing executive action, he asks a wide range of questions from reporters almost every day, and he has dozens of predecessors about his dislike of Ukraine, illegal immigration and paper straws last week. I called.
“This was all led by Biden and a group of stupid people,” Trump said. It blows up Biden’s border policy. He soon moved to US aid to Ukraine, and “Biden gives it because he’s not a clever individual.”
Don’t worry about Trump making history and defeating Kamala Harris to become the 47th president. He rarely mentions her, despite frequently checking the states of the battlefield he carried and frequently ticking the popularity polls he won in November.
Instead, Trump returns to Biden again and again.
“We did more in two weeks than Biden completed in five or six years,” Trump said one afternoon, an oval-shaped message that Biden, who had been president for four years, left a wishful message. I declared, sitting behind the Resolute Desk in my office. His successor wrote, “May God bless you and guide you.”
It has rarely been a day since Trump returned to power, saying that he has not called for Biden’s name to criticize, denunciate or slanderous over domestic agenda, foreign policy and more.
Trump has questioned his mental vision, pointing out the age of his previous rival (Biden is 82, Trump is 78) almost on every turn.
That decision Trump revealed while flying to Mar-a-Lago last weekend came just four years after Biden made the same move against Trump. .
“Joe, you’ve been fired,” Trump announced the move, saying in a social media message. He ended with his signature slogan, “Make America Great Again.”
On his side, Biden settled in his presidential life in Delaware.
He sometimes spoke to longtime friends and allies about Trump. People who are familiar with conversation often express a sense of disappointment and surprise at the whirlwind events of a particular day. If he accepts responsibility for his role in Trump’s return, he hasn’t said that even in private.
Several former Biden advisers said they preferred not to openly talk about the frequent variance of former boss Trump. A Biden spokesman declined to comment.
Presidential historian and former director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, Tim Naftali said Trump’s obsession with Biden stands out in the long-term relationship between one American leader and the next. Ta.
“It’s amazing how he cared after winning the popularity poll and enjoying a much better approval rating in the first few weeks,” said Naftali, a CNN contributor. “He mentions President Biden more often than Democrats.”
He added: “Talking about Biden is a way of mobilizing his base and he can’t get away from it.”
When Trump first became president eight years ago, he cried out over and over again for his defeated rival Hillary Clinton, and against his then-planned Barack Obama. He adopted a similar attitude. Their accusations date back many years to when Trump falsely claimed that Obama was born outside the United States.
At the time, hostility was considered a major violation of the president’s history. Most often, the presidents of both parties tried to at least maintain the emergence of joint congregations with their predecessors, even when they secretly sped and delivered public criticism in subtle ways.
Not like that with playing cards wearing light da on his sleeves. He accused Obama of surveillance at Trump Tower, along with other broader shortcomings. He was a little happy to say that he also accused his Republican predecessors of being accused of warming, including George HW Bush and George W. Bush.
In Biden, Trump has foils that he is far less popular than Obama.
The 46th president has been appointed with a historically low approval rating, and even by Democrats, could have stepped aside early to allow Harris or other candidates to hold a full-sam campaign to stop Trump. It was widely criticized for not being able to do so.
But at one point, it appeared Trump had some sympathy for Biden’s plight. He lamented what he described as a rude and cruel process of pushing the president aside from a democratic ticket.
“The presidency was taken away from Joe Biden and I’m not a Biden fan,” he said weeks after Biden came aside.
Comfort continued during a meeting a week after the November election as President Trump and Biden met for nearly two hours to discuss a peaceful transition of power.
“It’s going to be smooth enough to get,” Trump said.
But the tone was short-lived.
Trump stopped criticizing Biden by name in his inaugural speech, even if he declared that “America’s decline is over,” but he didn’t wait to do so. By the end of his first week of office, Biden had already become a recurring storyline for Trump’s speeches.
Trump told the crowd at a rally in Las Vegas that he spoke of conversations with foreigners.
“He’ll call you back in two months,” Trump claimed foreign leaders were told, citing French President Emmanuel Macron as his source.
Trump has not ventured so far, but has launched a formal criminal investigation into Biden himself, but he has taken office and left his attorney general to carry out a wide-ranging probe to the previous administration. I did.
Based on comments made shortly after Trump took office, Biden’s investigation may not be too far away.
“We went through four years of hell with this scum that we had to deal with. I went through four years of hell. I spent millions of dollars on legal costs and won. But I did that the hard way,” Trump told Fox News. “It’s really hard to say they don’t need to go through that either. It’s very hard to say that.”
Trump didn’t stop there, adding, “What’s interesting, perhaps sad, is that he didn’t pardon himself.”
