Former President Joe Biden said Friday that he was upset that US politics are “so divided” in his first speech since being diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer — saying that “I get really angry” over people calling for cuts to veterans benefits.
Biden — who called President Trump a fascist and a threat to American democracy during last year’s campaign — bemoaned political divisions during remarks at a war memorial near his Wilmington, Del., home, while showing no obvious new signs of physical infirmity despite the cancer spreading to his bones.
“My friends, Memorial Day is about something profound. Our politics have become so divided and so bitter — all the years I’ve been doing this, and never thought we’d get to this point, but we are,” said the former president, without pinning any of the blame on himself.
“Our troops don’t wear a uniform that says ‘I’m a Democrat’ or ‘I’m a Republican.’ It says I’m an American, I’m an American. That’s who I am. I’m serious about this. I’m not joking. And folks, our politics has become, as I said, so divided.”
