Biden slams Trump's first 100 days, calls successor an appeaser of Russia

[ad_1] Former President Joe Biden was deeply essential of his successor, and predecessor, in his first broadcast interview since leaving the White Home, saying President Donald Trump's first 100 days had been hardly a triumph.

Talking with BBC Radio 4's As we speak program, Biden touted his personal report on defending the NATO alliance whereas ripping Trump's stance on the Russia-Ukraine battle, which Trump has stated he needs to see finish shortly. The battle broke out in early 2022, a yr into Biden's time period.

"It's modern-day appeasement," Biden stated of Trump's angle towards Russian President Vladimir Putin. "Anyone who thinks he will cease is silly."

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President-elect Donald Trump shakes arms with U.S. President Joe Biden at Trump's inauguration within the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on January 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Kenny Holston-Pool/Getty Photographs)

The Trump administration has signaled Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy might have to simply accept Russia's management of Crimea and cede a few of the Ukrainian land Russia has occupied since its invasion in 2022 as a part of a peace settlement.

"I simply do not perceive how individuals assume that if we enable a dictator, a thug, to determine he will take important parts of land that are not his, that that is going to fulfill him," Biden stated, including, "I do not fairly perceive."

Trump has repeatedly stated Russia would not have invaded Ukraine if he had been president on the time, and he is repeatedly heaped blame on his predecessor since taking workplace.

Relations between the U.S. and Ukraine appeared to hit a low level in February when Trump and Vice President JD Vance blasted Zelenskyy in entrance of reporters within the Oval Workplace and instructed he was stopping peace.

"I discovered it form of beneath America in the way in which that came about," Biden stated of the assembly, including he could not consider Trump's rhetoric about points like taking Greenland and making Canada a 51st state.

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Biden stated Trump wasn't behaving like a "Republican president" when requested if Trump was performing like an autocrat in workplace. (AP Picture/Mark Schiefelbein)

"What the hell's occurring right here? What president ever talks like that? That is not who we're," Biden stated. "We're about freedom, democracy, alternative, not about confiscation."

Biden stated Trump wasn't behaving like a "Republican president" when requested if Trump was performing like an autocrat in workplace. His interviewer stated Biden was being "diplomatic."

When questioned about his report, particularly with Trump repeatedly criticizing his administration, Biden defended his achievements as president.

"Let me inform you: after I left workplace, we had created extra jobs than any president within the historical past of the USA in a single time period," Biden stated. "Our economic system was roaring, we had been shifting in a route the place the inventory market was means up, we had been in a state of affairs the place we had been increasing our affect all over the world in a constructive world, rising commerce, we regained management of what we invented … of the way forward for pc chips."

President Trump and former President Biden. (Win McNamee/Pool through REUTERS, Getty Photographs)

Requested about Trump claiming his first 100 days had been traditionally nice, Biden stated, "I am going to let historical past decide that. I do not see something that was triumphant."

Trump has blamed Biden for adverse financial developments, saying that he "inherited" a sinking economic system from the earlier administration in April.

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"It says how unhealthy the state of affairs we inherited," Trump informed reporters in April in response to questions concerning the impact of tariffs on the economic system. The president added that "you'll be able to even say the subsequent quarter is form of Biden as a result of it does not occur in a day by day or hourly foundation."