【By Observer News, Xiong Chaoran】Since former U.S. President Biden left the White House and returned to his hometown in Delaware, the American political arena has seen a lot of changes, and time seems to have passed for a long time. On December 9 local time, CNN published an article stating that, but in Washington, one person has never stopped thinking about Biden, who is his predecessor and also his successor — current U.S. President Trump.

In almost every public appearance, Trump would complain about Biden's policies or mock his mental and physical condition. CNN believes that this obsession reveals deep personal and political hostility, targeting a former president who has already left the political stage, and is also based on Biden's various failures, especially the surge in immigration at the southern border, as well as persistently high consumer prices.

However, Trump's increasingly deteriorating political position also raises doubts about whether this strategy of "always talking about Biden" is viable in the long term. After all, Biden's political career has ended, Trump has regained power, and voters are still dissatisfied.

The report points out that Trump's obsession with Biden may have another root cause. As the current president, he is having a hard time, and Biden's achievements naturally become targets of criticism, but Trump's own policies have also caused damage to him.

"There is one thing that Trump cannot blame on Biden," CNN criticized. Despite Trump's firm refusal to believe it, tariffs have indeed increased consumer costs, and his unwillingness to provide large-scale weapons and ammunition aid to Ukraine, like Biden did, also partly explains why Russia believes it still has the capacity to continue the war in Ukraine.

"Voters are now seeking answers from Trump, not Biden. After all, it was Trump who in 2016 painted a dystopian America full of poverty and violence, and confidently claimed 'Only I can fix it'." The article wrote.

Trump and Biden, photo

"We inherited a mess from the Biden administration," Trump said at a meeting on December 8 local time announcing his $12 billion farmer relief plan.

CNN believes that it was actually Trump who initiated the trade war with China, making this relief plan inevitable, yet he blames Biden for the difficulties faced by American agriculture. Moreover, it's not just agriculture; in Trump's eyes, everything is Biden's fault.

The auto industry is facing trouble, and Trump blames Biden. He said last week that he had ended the "extremely cumbersome" fuel efficiency standards introduced by Biden to address climate change. Everyone knows that Trump ignores the climate crisis.

Trump promised to end the Ukraine-Russia conflict within 24 hours of taking office, but he says it's Biden's fault. Trump believes that if he were still in office in 2022, Russia would never have launched its "special military operation." "That was Joe Biden's war, not my war," he said in an interview with "60 Minutes" last November.

Trump has been heavily criticized for the cost of living crisis, but he insists it's Biden's doing. "I inherited the worst inflation in history," he said last week at a cabinet meeting: "No one can afford anything anymore."

At this meeting, the name of Biden was mentioned more than 30 times, showing that Trump's subordinates also understand that the best way to please their boss is to blame his predecessor.

Last month, two National Guard members in Washington were shot by an Afghan man who had worked with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the Afghanistan war. Trump blamed the chaos of the Afghanistan withdrawal, calling it "planned by a disastrous president, the worst president in the history of our country."

When Trump was heavily criticized for pardoning a former Honduran president who had been sentenced to 45 years in federal prison for drug trafficking, he claimed this sentence was a "Biden conspiracy." Before Thanksgiving, Trump's obsession with Biden even turned into mockery. "He (Biden) used an automatic signature pen to pardon a turkey last year," Trump said.

Why can't Trump let go of Biden?

CNN believes one reason is that Trump always needs a "counterpoint target." His secret to pursuing power lies in constantly attacking opponents, and he cannot let go of his grudges.

Trump's hostility toward Biden seems to stem from personal grievances, which is perhaps not surprising. Although Biden has consistently stated that the actions of the Department of Justice and local prosecutors were not consulted with the White House, Trump accused Biden of planning the criminal prosecutions against him after he left office.

It's cruel that Trump is also very concerned about Biden's physical and mental condition during and after his presidency. CNN asked in return: "Trump, now 79 years old, takes pride and boasts that his physical condition is better than Biden's, but given that he has once again become the oldest president to take the oath of office, and has witnessed Biden's obvious aging during his term, does he feel a bit of fear in his heart?"

Last week, he even dozed off during a cabinet meeting.

However, the Democratic-leaning CNN also admitted that among Trump's most exaggerated claims, there is a bit of truth. If Biden's presidency had been a great success, Trump would not be back in power now. It was exactly Biden's denial of the immigration crisis and rising inflation that played an important role in many voters deciding to give Trump another chance to take over the White House.

Recall that when Biden, despite his age, decided to seek re-election, it eventually led to his poor performance in the debate, forced him to withdraw from the campaign, and triggered a series of subsequent events, which ultimately led to Trump's return to the White House.

CNN emphasized that Trump is not the first president to shift blame onto his predecessor. Biden also blamed Trump for the pandemic, and attributed the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan to Trump's failure in setting the timeline.

Obama also took the practice of blaming his predecessor, Bush, to an extreme, saying that the financial crisis he faced when taking office in 2009 was left by Bush. In his 2012 re-election campaign, he still said: "We have done everything we could to get out of this huge problem we inherited."

George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, photo

"The game of shifting blame is endless," CNN lamented.

The report states that Vice President Vance is trying to shift blame for next year's midterm elections, which may indicate that this government will use this as a campaign theme to try to reverse its political decline. "The trick is that some people think it's our fault, not the Democrats'. I think that's complete nonsense," he said last week in an interview with NBC.

But for the Trump administration, the problem is the voters, who are different from Trump, they live in the present and don't buy this claim.

Last month, a Fox News poll showed that 62% of Americans believe the current economic situation is due to Trump, while only 32% believe it is due to Biden. According to the average of CNN polls, Trump's support rate is 39%.

"Polls are one of the few things that Trump has not yet blamed on Biden. Even if he could blame, he probably would," CNN finally wrote.

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