“I found it beneath America, the way that took place,” he said of Trump and Zelenskyy’s meeting. “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].’

The former president stepped up his public re-emergence by attacking President Trump’s handling of foreign policy and defending his own decision to seek re-election.

Joe Biden pulled no punches in criticizing his successor in his first televised interview since leaving office earlier this year. The former president’s most biting rebukes of Donald Trump centered on foreign policy, claiming Trump sullied the office during his Oval Office confrontation with Ukrainian President Vlodoymyr Zelenskyy.