Former President Joe Biden had his first sit-down interview since leaving the White House, but it wasn’t with the American press.
The former Democratic leader was blasted on social media after he spoke with BBC journalist Nick Robinson, ripping into President Donald Trump and his first 100 days back in office.
“He’s not behaving like a Republican president,” Biden said about Trump in what the BBC called “an exclusive and remarkably candid interview.”
“I found it beneath America, the way that took place,” he said, speaking of the infamous Oval Office meeting in February between Trump and Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“And the way we talk about now that, ‘it’s the Gulf of America’, ‘maybe we’re going to have to take back Panama’, ‘maybe we need to acquire Greenland, ‘maybe Canada should be a [51st state].’ What the hell’s going on here?” Biden railed.
“What President ever talks like that? That’s not who we are. We’re about freedom, democracy, opportunity – not about confiscation,” he continued.
He went on to express his “grave” concerns about the NATO alliance and global trust in U.S. leadership, saying, “I fear that our allies… are going to begin to doubt whether we’re going to stay where we’ve always been for the last 80 years.”
“Every generation has to fight to maintain democracy,” he added. “We’ve done it well for 80 years. I’m worried there’s a loss of understanding of the consequences of that.”
White House Communications Director Steven Cheung slammed the interview as a form of “abuse” amid other criticism of the former president, who broke with tradition to lambaste his successor after a few months in office.
“Joe Biden is a complete disgrace to this country and the office he occupied. He has clearly lost all mental faculties and his handlers thought it’d be a good idea for him to do an interview and incoherently mumble his way through every answer,” he wrote on X.
Joe Biden is a complete disgrace to this country and the office he occupied. He has clearly lost all mental faculties and his handlers thought it’d be a good idea for him to do an interview and incoherently mumble his way through every answer.
Sadly, this feels like abuse. https://t.co/UKkysv1lKs
— Steven Cheung (@StevenCheung47) May 7, 2025
Others joined him in the scathing assessment.
I’ll tell you who talks like that, a man that has our countries’s best interest at heart unlike yourself, sir
— Texting for truth (@TextingforTruth) May 7, 2025
You know Trump is winning when fake news is resorting to interviews with Biden. Same dude they’ve been trashing since the debate
— Trump World (@Louaye1980) May 7, 2025
Hang your head in shame for that interview. Deep state propaganda at its most desperate.
As for: What president talks like that? “Clap you idiots”. “Coloured kids”. “Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.” Memory holed those already?
— Bloo Tik (@Zootick) May 7, 2025
Summary of Biden’s interview on BBC pic.twitter.com/9hQlRgKmEw
— Andrew Stiles (@AndrewStilesUSA) May 7, 2025
Think about whether you have the right to talk about things you failed to do when you were president.
A person who is good at talking about others but not himself is not a good person.
You should have done it when you were there.
— sns2010 (@soony2222) May 7, 2025
“What the hell’s going on here? What president ever talks like that?”
President Biden tells @BBCNickRobinson in an exclusive interview with #R4Today that President Trump’s foreign policy is ‘not who we are’ as a country.
— BBC Radio 4 Today (@BBCr4today) May 7, 2025
