Andrew Lipovsky/NBC(NEW YORK) — Jimmy Fallon welcomed Vice President Joe Biden to The Tonight Show on Thursday, and Biden didn’t mince words when it came to assessing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s performance at the first presidential debates.
“What amazes me about Donald Trump…is his lack of sensibility,” Biden noted. “I mean, the way he talks about, ‘Well you know, I was rooting for the housing market to fail’…because that’s business. That’s not business. That’s callous…or that, ‘I paid no takes and that makes me smart.'”
Added Biden, “What does that make the rest of us, suckers?”
As for Trump’s foreign policy, Biden warned, “I don’t even think he understands how much damage he does by what he’s already said…Europe…especially Central and Eastern Europe is scared to death about what [Russian president Vladimir] Putin may or may not do.”
“There’s hope…he found out Crimea is part of Ukraine, he joked.
Not surprisingly, the vice president had praise for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, whom he called “one of the brightest people I’ve ever known.” He defended her unpopularity with some voters by insisting that “everybody…wants the ideal candidate.”
“I learned how to become the ideal candidate,” noted Biden: “Announce you’re not running for president.” Biden was briefly the subject of a campaign to convince him to seek the Democratic nomination, even after he announced he wouldn’t.
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