In what is said to be his only interview to promote his upcoming memoir, former President Joe Biden sat down with People Magazine and held absolutely nothing back when it came to his predecessor-turned-successor, Donald Trump.
As the former president and Obama-era vice president battles increasingly severe cancer, the interview with People took place at his private home in Wilmington, Delaware, and covered a wide variety of topics.
But at the center of it all was the big, fat, orange elephant in the room.
“What’s your reaction to the Trump ballroom and the East Wing being destroyed?” People’s Nick Maslow jumped in.
“Almost as disturbing as the gold bars on the walls of the White House and the Oval Office,” Biden responded.
“I mean, what the hell are we talking about?” he continued. “I find it disturbing … I’ve viewed the president’s judgment in tearing down the East Wing and a number of other things as nothing more than to try to create monuments to himself: ‘I built that.’ I find it beneath the country.”
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