Biden pretends to squish a bug on the table on The View after Whoopi Goldberg compared Trump to an insect following two assassination attempts

President Joe Biden apparent joke astir smashing rival Donald Trump for illustration a bug is drafting scrutiny fixed nan tense governmental times amid threats.

Playing on during a taping of ABC's 'The View' Wednesday, Biden forcefully smacked his manus onto nan array erstwhile comedian and co-host Whoppi Goldberg compared rival Donald Trump to an 'insect.'

'He conscionable wouldn't - he was for illustration a bug. He conscionable kept being there., who's for illustration a bug correct location - bzzz,' nan comedian said, simulating a bug harassing her forehead, during a chat of Biden's determination not to activity reelection.

Biden underlined her routine, looking down astatine nan array successful beforehand of him and smacking his hand, prompting hosts and members of nan crowd laughed astatine nan gesture.

It wasn't a laughing matter for immoderate during a tense week wherever a man was charged successful nan 2nd assassination effort against Trump.

'In nan aftermath of 2 attempted assassinations and reports that Iran is trying to termination Donald Trump, The View’s Whoopi Goldberg compares Trump to a bug. Joe Biden past responds by pretending to termination a bug connected a table,' wrote Steve Guest, a erstwhile adjutant to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, posting nan clip online, posting connected X.

Trump's campaing besides complained astir a televised remark by Biden's Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, who blasted Trump for telling a 'lie' and said 'Let's extinguish him for good.'

Earlier successful nan broadcast, Biden sewage a mobility astir galore of Trump's ain incendiary comments, including referencing 'Second Amendment people' and calling for a televised subject tribunal of Rep. Liz Cheney, a salient Trump critic.

'Not a batch of societal redeeming worth there. He really does not judge successful populist and nan guardrails that our strategy has group up for nan maltreatment of power,' Biden said of Trump, connected a week erstwhile he was successful New York for nan gathering of nan UN General Assembly.

Biden claimed he could person beaten Trump himself, and formed speech polls that showed him successful heavy problem successful captious plaything states.

'I ne'er afloat believed that assertions that someway location was this overwhelming reluctance connected my moving again. I didn't consciousness that,' he said. 'We were ever wrong successful scope of beating this guy.'

Trump himself faced denunciations aft a reside past November wherever he referred to migrants arsenic 'vermin.'

'We promise to you that we will guidelines retired nan communists, Marxists, fascists, and nan extremist near thugs that unrecorded for illustration vermin wrong nan confines of our country,' Trump said.

Goldberg besides said to her loyalty to Biden, moreover astatine a clip erstwhile Democrats were lining up to push him out. 'You were my thrust aliases die,' she said. 'Thank you for everything you person done successful my lifetime.' 

Trump himself tore into nan FBI during a reside Wednesday, a time aft being briefed connected an assassination threat coming from Iran. He said Biden should show Iran's leaders he will blow