Biden calls Trump ‘a loser’, portraying him as incompetent, corrupt and vain

Joe Biden called Donald Trump “a loser” in a pugnacious speech on Saturday that invoked his presidential successor’s attempted makeover of Washington DC to portray him as incompetent, corrupt and vain. He delivered those remarks while giving the keynote address at a gala in Hanover, Maryland, hosted by the state’s Democratic party, which is hoping to help wrest control of Congress away from Trump and his Republican allies during November’s midterm elections. Biden’s 10-minute discourse touched on Trump’s demolition of the White House’s 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 . But “it’s not just his vanity projects” in the nation’s capital city that are a disgrace, Biden contended. He also invoked how the administration has been seeking to compensate those convicted of – and then presidentially pardoned for – roles in the violent attack at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 after Trump’s first Oval Office term ended in defeat to Biden. “Whoa!” Biden said while reciting all of that. …