Biden blasts Trump as 'foolish' appeaser of Russia, says first 100 days were no triumph
Trump has repeatedly criticized Biden for his administration's mistakes in his first 100 days as president
By David Rutz , Jeffrey Clark Fox News
Published May 7, 2025 8:45am EDT
Former President Joe Biden was deeply critical of his successor, and predecessor, in his first broadcast interview since leaving the White House, saying President Donald Trump's first 100 days were hardly a triumph.
Speaking with BBC Radio 4's Today program, Biden touted his own record on defending the NATO alliance while ripping Trump's stance on the Russia-Ukraine war, which Trump has said he wants to see end quickly. The war broke out in early 2022, a year into Biden's term.
"It is modern-day appeasement," Biden said of Trump's attitude toward Russian President Vladimir Putin. "Anybody who thinks he's going to stop is foolish."
The Trump administration has signaled Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy may have to accept Russia's control of Crimea and cede some of the Ukrainian land Russia has occupied since its invasion in 2022 as part of a peace agreement.
"I just don't understand how people think that if we allow a dictator, a thug, to decide he's going to take significant portions of land that aren't his, that that's going to satisfy him," Biden said, adding, "I don't quite understand."
Trump has repeatedly said Russia wouldn't have invaded Ukraine if he had been president at the time, and he's repeatedly heaped blame on his predecessor since taking office.
Relations between the U.S. and Ukraine appeared to hit a low point in February when Trump and Vice President JD Vance blasted Zelenskyy in front of reporters in the Oval Office and suggested he was preventing peace.
"I found it sort of beneath America in the way that took place," Biden said of the meeting, adding he couldn't believe Trump's rhetoric about issues like taking Greenland and making Canada a 51st state.
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