Biden Breaks Silence to Shred Trump in First Interview Since Leaving Office: ‘What the Hell’s Going On Here?’

Former President Joe Biden torched President Donald Trump’s foreign policy posture and accused his successor of indulging in “modern-day appeasement” toward Russia in his first sit-down interview since leaving the White House.

Speaking to BBC journalist Nick Robinson in an exclusive and sweeping sit-down that aired Wednesday, the former president abandoned the tradition of ex-presidents holding their tongue — and instead ripped into Trump’s first 100 days back in office.

“He’s not behaving like a Republican president,” Biden said of Trump.

The former president zeroed in on a now-notorious Oval Office exchange from February, where Trump and Vice President JD Vance berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for questioning Russian President Vladimir Putin’s motives.

“I found it beneath America, the way that took place,” Biden said.

The former president slammed Trump’s approach to Ukraine as capitulation, saying: “It is modern-day appeasement.”

Trump has pushed Ukraine to consider ceding territory to Russia — an approach Biden argues signals weakness and invites further aggression.

“Anybody who thinks Putin’s going to stop is foolish,” he said.

In an attack on Trump’s suggestions that the U.S. “take back Panama,” or annex Greenland and even Canada, Biden painted his successor’s approach as dangerously unserious — and deeply damaging to the U.S. image abroad.

“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 said.

He added: “What President ever talks like that? That’s not who we are. We’re about freedom, democracy, opportunity — not about confiscation.”

Biden continued to issue a “grave” warning about the fragility of the NATO alliance and what he sees as a collapsing trust in U.S. leadership: “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.”

Biden, who famously stepped out of the Democratic presidential race just over 100 days before the election, handing the reins to former Vice President Kamala Harris, also reflected on that moment: “What we had set out to do, no one thought we could do. And we had become so successful in our agenda, it was hard to say, ‘No, I’m going to stop now’… It was a hard decision.”

Watch above via BBC.