Former President Joe Biden slammed his successor on Saturday, labeling President Donald Trump as a “loser” over his projects to the East Wing of the White House and the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
Speaking at a gala in Maryland, the former president slammed Trump for what he called “vanity projects” and labeled the current president as corrupt.
“It’s not just his vanity projects,” Biden said. “He’s tearing down the East Wing of the White House, making room for his ballroom. Putting his name on the Kennedy Center. Building an arch in his own honor. Even hiring his own pool guy to fix his Reflecting Pool. … Whoa, what a loser.”
“The Reflecting Pool reflects something even worse than the narcissism and incompetence at the core of this administration,” he continued. “It’s the corruption, the brazen, blatant corruption. Corruption on a scale never seen before in American history in any administration.”
The remarks are Biden’s most pointed critiques of Trump since leaving office. The 10-minute speech was delivered exactly two years to the day he stood on stage with Trump at the now infamous CNN debate that would lead to him abandoning his re-election bid a month later.
“What makes me angry is that Trump wants to give taxpayers’ money, your money, to the January 6th insurrectionists. That’s what he wants to do,” Biden told the crowd. “These people don’t deserve to be compensated. They deserve to be put in jail for a long, long, long time.”
Since leaving office, Biden has not shied away from criticizing Trump, speaking out against his administration in events in South Carolina, South Dakota, and Maryland. He’s made the appearances even while battling an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
“He’s diminished our standing in the world more than any president in history has,” Biden said on Saturday.
