President Trump has many obsessions. One is that his fragile psyche requires he win every transaction and someone else lose. The concept that a transaction can be mutually beneficial has always been completely beyond his comprehension. This is why he misconstrues international trade with its trade deficits as dividing the world into winners and losers and believing his tariffs will make the U.S. the winner.
Another thing his brittle psyche requires is that he must never make a mistake of any kind. So when something goes right, he must always take sole credit, but when something goes wrong, he must always find someone to blame. And one of his favorite people to blame has been former President Biden.
Here are few of his most recent Biden rants. Because his Time and Atlantic magazine interviews had audiences of two while the ABC live television interview had an audience of millions, most of the following are from ABC where he could give his usual large crowd Trump stump speech.
“This is Biden’s Stock Market, not Trump’s. I didn’t take over until January 20th. Tariffs will soon start kicking in, and companies are starting to move into the USA in record numbers. Our Country will boom, but we have to get rid of the Biden ‘Overhang,’†Trump said in a Truth Social post.
“This will take a while, has NOTHING TO DO WITH TARIFFS, only that he left us with bad numbers, but when the boom begins, it will be like no other. BE PATIENT!!!†He blamed Biden for the contracting economy and told reporters that “You could even say that any downturn in the second quarter is Biden’s fault, too.†The White House put out an official statement blaming former President Joe Biden for today’s report of the shrinking GDP and saying the country’s underlying economic numbers remain strong.
“We have a country that’s very sick. Joe Biden — and it’s not him, because I don’t even think he knew what the hell was happening. But the people around him are vicious people. And what they’ve done to the country is unbelievable.†ABC interview
“What Biden did to this country, between the open borders where criminals poured into our country, between every country in the world ripping us off on trade, it was not sustainable.†ABC interview
“When Biden got involved, I won’t say whether or not he handled it properly, but obviously it wasn’t good, because the war started. Putin went in. The war started.†ABC interview
“Listen. I was elected to take care of a problem that was — it was — a, a unforced error that was made by a very incompetent man, a man that turned out to be incompetent that you always said was wonderful, a great genius, right? And now you find out — all of the media, now they’re saying what a mistake they made. A man who was grossly incompetent allowed us to have open borders where millions of people flowed in.†ABC interview
“They hit me the first week, ‘Eggs, eggs, eggs,’ like it was my fault. I said, ‘I didn’t cause this problem. This problem was caused by Biden. What’s the problem with eggs?’ And they said, ‘They’ve doubled it.’ Well, eggs are down 87%. And by the way — and there were plenty of eggs for Easter, which since I got just went through. Now the grocery prices are coming down. The energy prices are coming down. Gasoline’s coming down. It’s all heading in the right direction.†ABC interview
“We’ve got $7-8 trillion being invested in our country in two months. Biden didn’t have that over a year. I mean, if you look at Biden, nobody was really investing in this country. Everybody was ripping off our country. Apple’s putting up $500 billion, but that’s only one of many companies. Companies are flooding into our country right now.†ABC interview
Terry Moran (the ABC interviewer): “So your answer to the concern about the tariffs is, ‘Everything’s gonna be hunky-dory?’†President Donald Trump:†Everybody’s gonna be just fine.†ABC interview.
