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When Donald J. Trump was a private citizen, he used his platform, his allies and the Republican Party to help him paint his successor and later predecessor as the problem.
Those Americans with that "6th Grade education" believed Biden was ineffective in solving their everyday economic turmoils. While Biden (and Kamala Harris') adamant supporters blame the people who sat it out, the writing was on the wall.
Former president Joe Biden made several key mistakes.
He failed to fast track the indictments of Trump and his allies in Jan. 6, the theft of classified documents and the collusion with foreign entities to sabotage the 2020 elections.
He allowed assistance to Ukraine which led to inflation because Russia was a provider of fuel and diesel. He gave military weapons and assistance to Ukraine as it enters its fourth year of war.
He allowed assistance to Israel after the Oct. 7 resistance from Palestine. He gave cover to Israel after it continued illegal annexation of sovereignty. He did not hold people in Israel accountable for the deaths of Americans at the hands of the state. He allowed Israel to conduct a genocide under his watch. He dismissed the concerns of Arab, Muslim and young voters.
He signed the TikTok ban law. That caused millions of creators to denounce him and Harris for believing that app was a national security risk. In reality, TikTok was aiding in changing the minds of millions by watching Palestinians in real time describe the Israeli occupation being the reason to their resistance. Zionist groups pushed Congress to advocate that law.
He allowed Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema and John Fetterman stall his agenda.
He failed to acknowledge his declining health.
Harris said "I'm speaking" and you should "go and vote for Trump" when protesters chanted that she will not win because she supported genocide.
They kind of fucked up big time.
The Democratic Party basically allowed Trump win. They could of had a trifecta had they pushed the party further to the left instead of playing on centrist policies.
Republicans in 2025 were confident, happy and really defiant. Yet, it didn't feel right.
Allowing ICE to apprehend civilians and shoot them without even knowing they're U.S. citizens drove concerns.
Inflation did not go down. Trump promised he would be laser focused on that. Yet, he passed a permanent change to the tax code. It allowed the ultra rich to get more cuts while the working class will end up paying more in taxes and get little dividends in the end.
The war with Iran was a disaster. Iran prepared for this the moment the U.S. threatened to "blow them back to the stone age." Iran has made the world suffer because they are determined to prove to people that the U.S. and Israel are causes of chaos.
Trump desperately trying to put the chaos on Biden.
Trump has made Biden, a Democrat, his political target on average three times a day across speeches, comments and Truth Social postings, blaming him for problems ranging from inflation and immigration to munitions shortages, even as the former president, 83 and battling Stage 4 cancer, has largely withdrawn from public life.
The tactic reflects Trump's effort to keep Americans focused on the perceived failures of the previous administration rather than on voters' concerns about his own presidency with just six weeks left until the November 3 midterm elections.
Democrats “delivered you four years of disaster, bedlam and death under sleepy Joe Biden,” Trump, 80, told the party faithful at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas on September 9.
“Donald Trump always needs a foil and it's better to have a single person than a party,” said Republican strategist Ryan Williams. “He’s done this throughout his time in office. He can use it to try to deflect any problems he’s currently facing.”
The Reuters review examined Trump's references to Biden from January, when the 2026 election cycle began taking shape. The findings underscore Trump's effort to keep the focus on Biden as his own approval ratings have sagged, the war with Iran has dragged on, and the cost of living remains stubbornly high.
Since January 1, Trump has called out Biden by name at least 890 times, spanning almost 200 events and interviews and around 190 Truth Social posts this year, the Reuters review found.
He invoked Biden at least 210 times on the economy, 168 times on immigration and 138 times on foreign policy and national security matters, while also blaming him for a range of other domestic issues.
He has criticized Biden at events as varied as first lady Melania Trump’s movie premiere, the National Prayer Breakfast and the traditional Easter Egg Roll on the White House South Lawn. During July’s NATO meeting in Turkey, Trump set a record for the number of mentions in a single day – 16. He blamed Biden for a shortage of military munitions, the cost of housing and denigrating the steel industry.
While presidents often blame their predecessors – as Biden did Trump – Trump's focus on Biden 20 months into his second term stands out for both its persistence and volume.
“Joe Biden is the worst president in American history, and President Trump has spent every day cleaning up his mess and making the United States of America stronger than ever before,” said Olivia Wales, a White House spokeswoman defending Trump's repeated references to his predecessor.
Trump has also taken a number of personal jabs at Biden over his mental acuity and his use of the autopen to sign some documents, a practice used by many presidents.
Sitting at a picnic table and signing eggs at April's White House Easter Egg Roll, Trump told the group of children surrounding him that Biden “gave everything to the autopen because he was incapable of signing, let alone running a country.”
A favorite stop on the tour Trump gives guests at his “presidential walk of fame” near the White House Rose Garden is a display dedicated to Biden. While other presidents are represented by photos of themselves, Biden is represented by an image of an autopen.
Trump has invoked Biden even when addressing local issues such as the renovation of the Reflecting Pool on Washington's National Mall, arguing, without providing any evidence, that the project's problems stem from neglect during Biden's presidency or from reconstruction efforts that predated his return to office.
The pool now sits empty, two months after the initial renovation. Trump has blamed vandals for the project's problems, but the Justice Department acknowledged in August that recent "flawed" renovation work led to the pool's peeling, a problem tied to work undertaken during Trump's administration.
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