Trump responds to Biden's decision to run for second term

Trump made the statement in an interview with Newsmax. 

"It seems to me that somewhere along the line something will happen. It's just this country is in trouble. We're going to end up in World War III. We're talking about nuclear weapons. And we have somebody that doesn't understand what's happening," Donald Trump commented on Joe Biden's announcement to run in the 2024 presidential election. 

Trump added that Russia would not have dared to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and tensions would not have increased around Taiwan if he had remained in the White House. 

"You have China with Taiwan: They never talked this way when I was there. They knew that they couldn't talk that way. There was zero chance that Ukraine and Russia would have been doing what they're doing right now. Zero chance that Russia would have gone in," Trump said. 

He also emphasized that the US showed weakness when it withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021, which had major geopolitical consequences.  

"This was shocking, and a lot of it had to do with Afghanistan. We looked so stupid and so weak when they surrendered Afghanistan. I think it was the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country and nobody's ever seen anything like that, Greg. When Putin looks at that — all of them — and President Xi, Kim Jong Un, all of them, when they look at this, Iran, they see weakness," Trump explained. 

• On April 25, Joe Biden announced that he would run for a second term in the US presidential election in 2024.