He added: “What president ever talks like that? That’s not who we are.”
Trump used the February meeting in the Oval Office to accuse Ukraine’s president of being insufficiently grateful for American support. The meeting ended without an agreement, though the pair later met at Pope Francis’ funeral and the two countries have now agreed a minerals deal.
Biden branded Trump’s approach to the war in Ukraine “modern day appeasement.”
“Listen to what [Russian President Vladimir] Putin said when he talked about going from Kyiv into Ukraine. And why. He believes it’s part of mother Russia,” Biden added.
Amid signs of a U.S. retreat from its role as guarantor of European security, Biden said the future of the NATO military was now of “grave concern” to him and warned “it would change the modern history of the world if that occurs.”
Asked whether Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had been right to take issue with America subsidizing European defense, Biden pushed back: “They don’t have a point. When we were attacked, what happened on 9/11? They all responded and supported us.”
Seb Starcevic contributed reporting.
