Vice President Joe Biden ripped into Donald Trump again on Tuesday, after promising Monday that, “I’ve given up on talking about Trump.”
In a speech at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Biden gave up on that pledge and said Trump’s proposed foreign policy is “already damaging us.”
“This is a man who doesn’t know where Crimea is, that it was forcibly annexed by Russia from the Ukraine,” Biden said. Biden complained that Trump doesn’t believe the intelligence community’s assessment that Russia hacked the emails of Democratic Party officials, and admires Russian President Vladimir Putin because he admires “strong” leaders.
“He probably loved Saddam, if he wants strong leaders … this bothers me,” Biden said, referring to the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
“He says this with a straight face for all the world to hear,” Biden continued. “What does that say to the world” about the state of American leadership, he asked.
“Assume every president had access to the Internet, that there was an Internet … Can you imagine any president in American history ever, ever, ever or any future president, getting up at 3:30 in the morning and tweeting vitriol about a former Miss Universe, that she’s fat … What does that say to the rest of the world? What does that say about who we are?” Biden asked.
At the end of his speech, Biden said again that he’s all done with talking down Trump. “So I’m finished with Donald Trump,” Biden said.
Biden also acknowledged his own tendency to say things that create problems for himself. “No one ever doubts that I mean what I say,” Biden said. “But sometimes I say all that I mean.”
