He added: “What the president speaks like that? It is not who we are.”
Trump used the February meeting at the Oval Office to accuse the president of Ukraine to be insufficiently grateful for American support. The meeting ended without agreement, although the pair later met at the funeral of Pope Francis and that the two countries have now concluded a mineral agreement.
Biden marked Trump’s approach to war in Ukraine “modern appeasement”.
“Listen to what (Russian president Vladimir) Putin said when he spoke of going from Kyiv to Ukraine. And why. He thinks that it’s part of the mother of Russia,” added Biden.
In the midst of signs of an American retirement from his role as a guarantor of European security, Biden said that the future of the NATO army was now “serious concern” for him and warned “it would change modern history if that happens”.
When asked if Vance and the defense secretary Pete Hegseth had been right to challenge America subsidizing European defense, Biden rejected: “They have no point.
Seb Starcevic contributed the reports.
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