President Donald Trump said Friday he's not a "bully," like former Vice President Joe Biden called him in an interview, but he also doesn't like it when someone is taking advantage of the United States.
"I don’t think I’m a bully at all,” Trump told reporters at the White House, just before heading out to his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., reports CNN.
His comments came after Biden told CNN's Chris Cuomo that Biden said Trump is "the bully that I knew my whole life."
"He's the bully that I've always stood up to," he told Cuomo after he was asked if he could stand up to Trump in a general election matchup. "He's the bully that used to make fun when I was a kid and had a stutter, and I'd smack him in the mouth."
Trump also slammed Biden as part of the Obama administration on Friday.
“You look at what Joe Biden has done with China," he said. "We’ve lost our shirts with China, and now China’s dying to make a deal. And we’re taking, by the way, billions and billions of dollars in tariffs are coming in, and China is paying for it, not our people...I call it the Obama-Biden mess. We’re straightening it out."
During the interview, Biden also commented about Trump's record with NATO, saying if he is re-elected, NATO will cease to exist in four or five years.
Trump told reporters to "tell Biden that NATO has taken total advantage of him and President (Barack) Obama. We were paying for almost all of NATO.”
"Obama and Biden" didn’t have a clue," said Trump. "They got taken advantage of by China, by NATO, by every country."
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