Former President Donald Trump sat down with talk-show host Sean Hannity on Fox News Thursday night to broach a number of different topics, and he wasn’t shy about offering his critique of the man who ousted him from the White House.
“It was a very sad time for our country. I want him to forget politics, I want him to do well. He's got to do well,” Trump said when asked about Joe Biden’s job performance one year into his presidency. "Our country is in trouble… I don't think we've ever had anything like it in this country. When you look at that horrible situation in Afghanistan, the way they got out, getting out was good but the way they got out, we could have gotten that with strength and with dignity and kept Bagram [Air Base].”
Trump told Hannity he believes Biden is allowing the United States to be disrespected by foreign leaders.
“I don't think we've ever been in this position… I feel ashamed at what's happened in the last year with our country. I'm ashamed of what's going on, and so are Americans,” Trump said. “They're ashamed and embarrassed. They haven't seen this. I don't think we've ever seen this like this.”
Trump was particularly critical of Biden’s cancellation of the construction of a wall along the country’s southern border.
“We would have had the wall completed in three weeks which was largely completed, we did almost 500 miles of wall and the southern border. It was really working, it really had an impact, and we were working along with Mexico and Guatemala, Honduras. We were in El Salvador; all of these countries,” he said. “So we had the most secure border we've ever had… And then it's all gone in one instant. At first, I thought it was gross incompetence, but now it's incompetent policy. They really want to have an open border.”
According to a status report from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency released at the end of Trump’s presidency, 438 miles of “border wall system” were completed under Trump’s watch. Of that total, 365 miles were replacement fencing for structures that were outdated or faulty. New primary and secondary structures built totaled 73 miles.
Another 241 miles of new fencing was still left unbuilt when Biden halted the project.
Trump was also critical of Biden’s foreign policy.
“So now you have a problem in Ukraine, which you would have never had under my administration… You watch, after the Olympics [in Beijing], you [will] have a big problem with Taiwan,” Trump said. “They're all watching, and they can't believe what they're seeing.”
The 2022 Winter Olympics are set to get underway in China on February 4 and run through February 20.
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