Sen. Bernie Sanders was "very disrespectful" to Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden with his comments that the far left will "organize our people to make sure that Biden becomes the most progressive" leader, President Donald Trump said Tuesday.
The comments also show that Biden won't be able to handle Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other "squad" members and that the former vice president "isn't ready for prime time" if he's elected, Trump told Fox News' "Fox & Friends" Tuesday morning.
"He's not going to be running the group," Trump said. "That group of people is probably close to impossible to run. I call it the AOC plus three. That's a tough group to run and they would take the country into a terrible place."
Trump pointed to Biden's changing stance on fracking and complained that he was "never hit by the press" over it.
The president also said that Biden is "not prime time, and he never really was, really," pointing to "all the gaffes and all of the problems" he's had during his campaign.
"When he says he's a proud Democrat running for the U.S. Senate, and you know, at first I thought he was joking but he wasn't joking," said Trump. "He's done that a number of times ... it's a tough thing for him. Frankly he shouldn't be in this position."
Trump added that if Biden and his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris win the election, the country will "never be the same" because they have been radicalized by the left.
"Joe Biden will never call the shots, and if he does, he's not going to be there very long," said Trump. "He's got a vice president who's further left than Bernie Sanders who is not a particularly good person and she would be, I think, a terrible first representative."
And if Harris became the first woman president, that would be a "terrible thing" for the country and for women, the president said.
"I look forward to the first woman president but I wouldn't look forward to her being that person," said Trump. "I think it would be a very bad thing and I think you'd have a country that would become a socialist country."
Trump also said he's concerned Democrats will pack the courts if Biden wins and complained that the Supreme Court has "given us some very bad decisions" over the election.
"People should put their ballots in early," he said. "You don't have to wait until the end. Why are they waiting till the end? They have it for a long time. They put the ballots in early and there's plenty of time to count it, tabulate it, and do it through a normal course."
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