The Democratic warhorse rejected criticism that his age and acuity was a factor in the final months of his single term in the White House

“I found it beneath America, the way that took place,” he said of Trump and Zelenskyy’s meeting. “And the way we talk about now that, ‘it’s the Gulf of America’, ‘maybe we’re going to have to take back Panama’, ‘maybe we need to acquire Greenland, ‘maybe Canada should be a [51st state].’