{"id":18299,"date":"2026-07-24T10:17:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T10:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/24\/trump-biden-left-us-military-equipment-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T10:17:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T10:17:20","slug":"trump-biden-left-us-military-equipment-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/24\/trump-biden-left-us-military-equipment-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Criticizes Biden for Leaving US Military Equipment Behind in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump, President of the United States, stated that the previous administration led by Joe Biden left a large amount of American military equipment during the withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Trump said at a rally that the United States now has the &#8220;strongest and most powerful army in the world&#8221; and claimed that the majority of this capability was built during his first term as president.<\/p>\n<p>He criticized the way US forces were withdrawn from Afghanistan, saying that military equipment and aircraft should have been removed from the country. According to Trump, &#8220;They handed a large part of it over to the Taliban and Afghanistan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump described the event as &#8220;regrettable,&#8221; adding that what happened at that time was, in his words, &#8220;a hateful act.&#8221; The US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan took place in August 2021, coinciding with the collapse of the previous regime; a process that remains a subject of debate in US domestic politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump criticizes Joe Biden for leaving US military equipment behind in Afghanistan during the 2021 troop withdrawal, calling it a &#8216;hateful act.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}