2026-06-28T05:05:53.968Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/28/politics/joe-biden-democrats-speech
马里兰州汉诺威——
周六晚间，前总统乔·拜登在马里兰州民主党州党筹款集会上发表演讲，抨击了接替他入主白宫的特朗普，将其描绘成虚荣且腐败的人。
“这不只是他那些虚荣的工程：拆毁白宫东翼为自己的宴会厅腾地方，在肯尼迪中心刻上自己的名字，为自己修建纪念拱门，甚至雇自己的泳池工来翻修倒影池。哇！真是个失败者，”拜登在马里兰州一家赌场举办的这场筹款晚宴上对在场嘉宾说道。
“这处倒影池映照出的东西，比本届政府核心的自恋和无能还要糟糕，”他继续说道，“那就是腐败，腐败，厚颜无耻、明目张胆的腐败。美国历史上任何一届政府都未曾出现过如此大规模的腐败。”
拜登这场时长10分钟的演讲，是他卸任以来对总统唐纳德·特朗普最尖锐的批评之一。这场演讲恰好是在他与特朗普在CNN总统辩论中同台交锋的两年后，那次辩论打乱了这位民主党总统的连任计划，也改变了他的政治遗产轨迹。
“让我愤怒的是，特朗普想要把纳税人的钱——你们的钱——发给1月6日国会山骚乱的参与者。那就是他想做的事，”拜登对人群说道，“这些人不配得到补偿。他们应该被关进监狱，很长很长很长的时间。”
卸任白宫以来，拜登从不避讳批评特朗普。过去一个月里，他接受邀请参加了马里兰州、南达科他州以及家乡特拉华州的党派活动，试图在特朗普连任期间团结民主党人。
但此时他正面临复杂的后总统生涯处境：党内许多人对他处理2024年大选的方式感到不满。最近由SSRS实施的CNN民调显示，仅有30%的美国民众对拜登持正面看法——这一比例低于他任总统期间的任何时候。
这场最新演讲恰逢拜登家族重新活跃于政治舞台，这让一些民主党人感到懊恼。前第一夫人吉尔·拜登博士推出了回忆录并开启宣传巡演，分享她对2024年大选的看法，这激怒了许多民主党人，他们认为这会重新揭开党内旧伤疤。
“我们本有责任赢得选举，但我们没能做到，”曾是拜登最坚定支持者之一的前发言人安德鲁·贝茨告诉《纽约邮报》，“我一直都在想这件事。但我不明白，为什么现在要把这场让整个党派痛苦的对话重新公之于众。”
当被问及这一评论时，前第一夫人在华盛顿特区的图书巡讲活动上回呛道：“打电话给我，当面跟我说。”这一回应遭到了许多前助手的批评。（一位知情人士透露，拜登和贝茨在第二天通了电话。）
拜登的儿子亨特几乎无处不在，谈论着各种话题。他在社交媒体上拥有大量粉丝——在X平台上超过80万——并持续发布关于自己过往毒品成瘾经历的帖子以及对政治的思考。他接受了多档播客的长时间专访，其中包括与颇具争议的右翼播主坎迪斯·欧文斯进行的两小时对谈。
在加州州长加文·纽森的播客采访中，亨特·拜登公开谈到了父亲一项最具争议的决定将被如何铭记。
“他选择了我，而非他的政治遗产。不管你怎么说，这都将是人们描述他时最先提到的事情之一，”亨特·拜登谈及父亲在坚持不会赦免他之后，最终还是赦免了自己。
未来几个月，塑造拜登政治遗产的努力可能会更加清晰。这位前总统今年大部分时间都在撰写回忆录，但官方发布日期尚未公布。
他的总统图书馆筹备进度比前任们要慢。拜登此前宣布图书馆将设在特拉华州，但至今尚未公布正式选址。一位知情人士表示，相关细节可能在不久后敲定。
他的团队仍在为该项目筹款，但最终的图书馆规模预计将远小于前总统巴拉克·奥巴马位于芝加哥的8.5亿美元总统中心。拜登上周曾与其他几位前总统一同出席了该中心的开幕仪式。
这一切都发生在这位83岁老人与癌症持续抗争的背景下：他的前列腺癌已转移至骨骼，在卸任白宫数月后确诊后，一直在接受放疗和激素治疗。“我想乔将带着癌症度过余生，”吉尔·拜登博士在最近接受NBC采访时说道。
尽管民主党部分人士对他持悲观态度，拜登仍在寻找机会尽力为民主党提供帮助。在两场初选前几周，拜登背书了两位前政府官员：佐治亚州州长竞选人凯莎·兰斯·博顿斯，以及马萨诸塞州国会选区候选人丹·科。
在周六的马里兰州活动中，拜登会见了该州州长韦斯·摩尔和参议员克里斯·范·霍伦，这两位本州民主党人被视为2028年总统竞选的潜在候选人。
摩尔在活动中介绍了拜登，回顾了这位前总统如何在2024年巴尔的摩弗朗西斯·斯科特·基大桥坍塌后，为该州拨付数百万美元用于灾后恢复工作。
“他不仅帮助我们重建，还帮助我们疗愈。他调集联邦资源驰援该市以清理废墟，因为他知道数百万人满怀希望、迫切需要并指望着这一切，”摩尔说道，“虽然拜登总统并非在马里兰州出生，但他帮助我们所有人明白了什么是‘马里兰坚韧’和‘巴尔的摩强大’。”
来自巴尔的摩的民主党人阿德里安娜·格林在拜登演讲前参加了一场见面会。她说能见到拜登很激动，认为他“就年龄而言状态不错”，但也表示两党都需要培养新一代领导人。
“我认为他们带来的智慧和建议是宝贵的，也理应如此，”她说，“但我确实认为，无论是民主党还是共和党，我们都到了需要移交权力的时刻。”
特拉华州联邦民主党众议员萨拉·麦克布莱德是拜登定期联系的人士之一。两人上周在特拉华州共进午餐，谈论了特朗普总统对国际舞台的影响。
“我认为选民们关心的是当下和未来，我们需要全员上阵的应对方式，这包括乔·拜登和巴拉克·奥巴马这样的人士的声音，以及我们党历史上所有退休政治领袖的声音，我很感激乔的领导，”麦克布莱德周六在接受CNN电话采访时说道。
周六晚间站在民主党人面前时，拜登坚称自己“仍在为这个党派战斗”，并在民主党人暂失执政权之际为他们鼓劲。
“所有热爱我们国家的人们，我今晚的讯息直白而简单：站起来，该死的。现在就站起来，继续这场战斗！”他在掌声中说道。
Two years after their last debate, Biden jabs at Trump: ‘What a loser’
2026-06-28T05:05:53.968Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/28/politics/joe-biden-democrats-speech
Hanover, Maryland—
As he rallied Maryland Democrats at a state party fundraiser Saturday night, former President Joe Biden decried the actions of the man who succeeded him in the White House, painting him as vain and corrupt.
“It’s not just his vanity projects, tearing down the East Wing of the White House making room for his ballroom, putting his name on the Kennedy Center, building an arch in his own honor, even hiring his own pool guy to fix the reflecting pool. Woah! What a loser,” Biden told attendees of the gala, which was held at a Maryland casino.
“The reflecting pool reflects something even worse than the narcissism and incompetence at the core of this administration,” he continued. “It’s the corruption, the corruption, the brazen, blatant corruption. Corruption on a scale never seen before in American history in any administration.”
Biden’s 10-minute speech amounted to one of his most pointed critiques of President Donald Trump since leaving office. He delivered it exactly two years after he stood on a different stage for a CNN presidential debate against Trump, a moment that derailed the Democratic president’s second-term aspirations and shifted the course of his political legacy.
“What makes me angry is that Trump wants to give taxpayers’ money, your money, to the January 6th insurrectionists. That’s what he wants to do,” Biden told the crowd. “These people don’t deserve to be compensated. They deserve to be put in jail for a long, long, long time.”
Since leaving the White House, Biden has not shied away from criticizing Trump, accepting invites to party events in Maryland, South Dakota and his home state of Delaware in the past month to try to rally Democrats during Trump’s second term.
But it comes as he continues to navigate a complicated post-presidency as many in his party remain frustrated with his handling of the 2024 election. A recent CNN poll conducted by SSRS found only 30% of the American public held a favorable view of Biden – lower than at any point during his time in the White House.
The latest speech also coincides with his family’s reemergence on the political scene to the chagrin of some Democrats. Former first lady Dr. Jill Biden released her memoir and embarked on a promotional tour, offering her own take on the 2024 saga, which aggravated many Democrats who felt it was reopening old party wounds.
“We had a duty to win and we didn’t,” Andrew Bates, a former spokesperson for Biden who was among his fiercest defenders, told the New York Post. “I think about that all the time. But I don’t see why that painful conversation for the party needed to be publicly reopened right now.”
“Call me up, and say it to my face,” the former first lady clapped back when asked about the comment at a book tour stop in Washington, D.C., a response that drew criticism from many former aides. (Dr. Biden and Bates spoke the next day, a source familiar with the matter said.)
The Bidens’ son, Hunter, seems to be everywhere and talking about everything. He’s drawn a large following on social media – more than 800,000 followers on X – where he’s fired off a steady stream of posts on his past struggles with drug addiction and musings about politics. He’s sat for lengthy podcast interviews, including a two-hour sit-down with the controversial right-wing podcaster Candace Owens.
In an interview on California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s podcast, Hunter Biden spoke openly about how one of his father’s most controversial decisions will be remembered.
“He chose me over his legacy. Because no matter what you say that’s going to be one of the first things that is written about him,” Hunter Biden said of his father’s decision to pardon him after insisting he would not do so.
Attempts to shape Biden’s legacy could come into sharper focus in the coming months. The former president has spent much of the year working on his memoir, though an official release date has yet to be announced.
His presidential library has gotten off to a slower start than his predecessors’. Biden announced it would be housed in Delaware but has yet to unveil an official location. A source familiar with the situation said those details could be finalized in the near future.
His team continues to fundraise for that operation, but the eventual library is expected to be much smaller in scale than former President Barack Obama’s $850 million presidential center in Chicago where Biden joined other presidents to attend the opening ceremony last week.
All of this has played out as the 83-year-old continues to battle prostate cancer that has metastasized to the bones, undergoing radiation and hormone therapy after receiving the diagnosis months after leaving the White House. “I think Joe will live with cancer for the rest of his life,” Dr.
Jill Biden said in a recent interview with NBC.
Though he’s faced pessimism from some corners of the Democratic Party, Biden has still looked for ways to be helpful to Democrats when he can. Biden endorsed two former officials in his administration in the weeks before their primaries: Keisha Lance Bottoms, who is running for governor in Georgia, and Dan Koh, a congressional candidate in Massachusetts.
At the event Saturday in Maryland, Biden visited with Gov. Wes Moore and Sen. Chris Van Hollen, two Democrats from the state seen as potential 2028 presidential hopefuls.
Moore introduced Biden at the event, recounting how the former president helped send millions to the state for recovery efforts following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore in 2024.
“He helped us, not just rebuild, he helped us heal. He surged federal assets to the city to help clear wreckage, because he knew that millions were hoping and needed and counting on that,” Moore said. “While President Biden might not be a Marylander by birth, President Biden helped to show us all what it means to be Maryland tough and Baltimore strong.”
Adrienne Green, a Democrat from Baltimore, attended a meet-and-greet with Biden ahead of his speech. She said she was excited to meet him and believes he’s doing “well for his age,” but also spoke of the need for both parties to find a new crop of leaders.
“I think they bring wisdom and counsel that’s valued and should be,” she said. “But I do think we are at a place and a point in both parties, quite frankly, Democrat and Republican, where the torch needs to be passed.”
Democratic Rep. Sarah McBride of Delaware is among those who Biden checks in with on a regular basis. The two met for lunch in Delaware last week, talking about President Trump’s impact on the world stage.
“I think voters are concerned with the present and the future, and I think that we need an all-hands-on-deck approach, and that that includes the voices of people like Joe Biden and Barack Obama, and retired political leaders from throughout our party’s history, and I’m grateful for Joe’s leadership,” McBride told CNN in a phone conversation Saturday.
As he stood before Democrats on Saturday night, Biden insisted he was “still fighting” for the party as he offered encouragement to Democrats in their time out of power.
“To all you who love our country, my message tonight is straightforward and simple: Get up, dammit. Get up now. Continue this fight!” he said to applause.