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Joe Biden calls Donald Trump America’s ‘first’ racist president

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee says Trump’s behaviour is ‘sickening’, prompting president to compare himself with Abraham Lincoln.

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Joe Biden has called Donald Trump the country’s “first” racist president, saying the way he deals with people based on the the colour of their skin is “absolutely sickening”.

The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s comments came during a virtual town hall organised by the Service Employees International Union. When a questioner complained of racism linked to the coronavirus outbreak and mentioned the president referring to it as the “China virus”, Biden responded by blasting Trump and “his spread of racism”.

“The way he deals with people based on the colour of their skin, their national origin, where they’re from, is absolutely sickening,” the former vice president said. “No sitting president has ever done this. Never, never, never. No Republican president has done this. No Democratic president. We’ve had racists, and they’ve existed. They’ve tried to get elected president. He’s the first one that has.”

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 Joe Biden suggested Donald Trump was using race ‘as a wedge’ to distract from his mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic.

Biden also suggested that Trump was using race “as a wedge” to distract from his mishandling of the pandemic.

Many presidents – including the nation’s first, George Washington – owned slaves. President Woodrow Wilson, the country’s 28th president, is having his name removed from Princeton University’s public policy school after recent protests against institutional racism and police brutality. Wilson, who served in the early 20th century, supported segregation and imposed it on several federal agencies.

Responding to Biden’s comments at a White House briefing on Wednesday, Trump pointed to his administration’s efforts passing criminal justice reform legislation and expanding opportunity zones, as well as the low unemployment numbers for minority groups before the coronavirus outbreak.

“I’ve done more for Black Americans than anybody with the possible of exception of Abraham Lincoln,” the president said. “Nobody has even been close.”

Katrina Pierson, a senior adviser for Trump’s re-election campaign, said in a statement that “no one should take lectures on racial justice from Joe Biden.”

Biden has vowed that, if elected, he will begin addressing institutional racism within his first 100 days of office.

It is not the first time Biden has suggested Trump’s actions were racist.

Biden has built his campaign on the election being a “battle for the soul of the nation” and said he felt compelled to run after he saw Trump respond to a deadly 2017 white supremacist attack on counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, by saying there were “some very fine people” on both sides.

When Trump said last year that four Democratic congresswomen of colour should “go back” to their countries, Biden called it a “flat, racist attack.”

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