Biden Critique Trump in the BBC interview

Six months after his party lost the presidential election, former president Joseph R. Biden Jr. recovered under the spotlight with a scathing conviction of his successor and his management of international affairs.

In his first interview with the broadcast since who left the White House, Mr. Biden attacked the management of President Trump of the War in Ukraine and his relations with the world allies. Addressing the BBC, Mr. Biden also defended the calendar from his own withdrawal from the 2024 presidential campaign.

The former president distinguished some of Mr. Trump’s actions on foreign policy – including his combative meeting at the Oval Office in February with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine.

“I found it in a way under America in the way it took place,” said Mr. Biden about Reunion. He also underlined Mr. Trump’s calls to rename the Gulf of Mexico, take over the Panama Canal and acquire Greenland.

“What’s going on here? What president never speaks like that? It is not who we are,” said Mr. Biden. “We are a question of freedom, democracy, opportunity – no confiscation.”

Although he did not mention Mr. Trump by name, his comments were a strip of a long tradition in which the former presidents refuse to criticize the leaders who follow. The attack suggested that Mr. Biden, 82, considers himself continues to have a public role in his party, even if many Democrats blame him for their defeat in 2024 and want to focus on a new generation of leaders.