President Trump’s derogatory swipes against his predecessor Joe Biden continued with a post calling the ailing Democrat a “decrepit corpse.”
The latest attack comes a week after Trump wished his predecessor a “fast and successful recovery” from aggressive stage 4 prostate cancer. It took the form of the current president reposting a message from a MAGA influencer on Truth Social, alleging that Democrats “stole the 2020 election and hijacked the country using a decrepit corpse as a frontman.”
While there remains no credible evidence of corruption in the 2020 election in which Biden trounced Trump, it was the president’s endorsement of referring to Biden as a “corpse” that rang poignant when he shared that message Monday. Screenshots of the repost flooded the internet.
Biden, 82, announced on May 18, that he and his family were reviewing options to treat his illness. Trump seemed to put his personal feelings behind him until Memorial Day, when he started the morning with a social media message calling his political rivals “scum” and singling Biden out as “incompetent.”
Trump, who turns 79 in June, has repeatedly blamed the previous administration for the challenges he’s faced since winning the 2024 election against Biden’s Vice President, Kamala Harris.
Biden didn’t address Trump’s Memorial Day attacks, though a message posted to the 46th president’s Facebook page recognized the holiday.
“On Memorial Day, let us pause to remember and honor the brave women and men who made the ultimate sacrifice so we could live our lives in peace and possibility,” the message read. “Today we also honor the families they left behind whose hearts still carry the weight of absence.”
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, which is preparing for major staff reductions under the Trump administration, calls Memorial Day the nation’s “foremost annual day to mourn and honor its deceased service men and women.”
