The former president Donald Trump hit out at the Biden administration on Friday, criticizing his successor's handling of the COVID 19 flu, energy policies, rising inflation, withdrawal from Afghanistan and the crisis at the southern border.
Trump told FOX Business's Varney Co. that he had hoped President Biden would do well in managing the coronavirus, but he also pointed out that despite all of the vaccines and therapeutics that are now widely available, significantly more Americans have died from the virus under Biden's watch than his own.
"I wanted Biden to be successful on the whole thing on COVID or as I call it the China virus," Trump told host David Asman. I wanted him to be successful. He's been totally unsuccessful. The former president said he was proud to take the COVID 19 vaccine and very proud of the development of the inoculations in nine months under Operation Warp Speed, and he believes people should take the vaccines.
Trump said that he was against Biden's vaccine mandates, saying, I want people to go out and want to get vaccine but I don't want to force it into them, and blamed vaccine hesitancy on people's distrust of Biden.
Biden lied so much ahead of the election, pointing out that Biden initially said that he would not impose vaccine mandates, and noting that Biden shut down the Keystone Pipeline almost immediately after taking office, which he had previously signaled that he would consider keeping the project going.
The energy policies of the Biden administration are directly contributing to the rising inflation, Trump said.
Nobody has seen it, and that's what's happening with energy, Trump said. In California, gas is $7.77 in certain areas of California People remember in a debate, you're going to have $5, $6, $7 gasoline, and even more than that, I just didn't know I was going to be right so soon. Trump referred to the Biden administration's handling of the border crisis and the way the Afghanistan withdrawal was handled as a disgrace, and the Republican believes that if he decides to run for the White House again, he will win.
The president said that the whole world looked at us differently today than they did a year ago. They had great respect for this country a year ago. They look at us like we're a bunch of wimps that they can't believe.