(NewsNation) — Bill O’Reilly stated that President Donald Trump “knows he humiliated” outgoing President Joe Biden and that the act was driven by “vengeance.”
“That was a brutal speech,” O’Reilly said on NewsNation’s “On Balance.” “It’s a unique moment in American history. I can’t find any other inaugural address that humiliated an outgoing president as much as this one did.”
“Vengence doesn’t leave the building easily,” O’Reilly added, calling out Biden for “attacking” both Trump and his family.
Cuomo: Time Trump spends persecuting Biden is wasted
O’Reilly pointed out how Biden had to sit through Trump’s speech and “listen to how he screwed up every single thing in this country.”
“It was excruciating,” O’Reilly said, emphasizing that Trump chose to speak that way because “He believes that President Biden was behind Jack Smith and Mar-a-Lago raids.”
NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo disagreed, calling it “petty vengeance.”
“Every moment that Donald Trump motivates any retrospective in terms of investigating narratives, looking at narratives, is, to me, a moment wasted for the American people,” Cuomo said.
Trump calls America’s past leadership corrupt
Trump described America’s leadership over the last four years as incompetent and corrupt, echoing some of the darker rhetoric he used daily on the campaign trail.
He did not mention his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, or any other Democrats by name. But there was no question about whom he was talking.
“We now have a government that cannot manage even a simple crisis at home, while at the same time stumbling into a continuing catalog of catastrophic events abroad,” Trump charged.
He said the current government protects dangerous immigrants instead of law-abiding citizens, protects foreign borders at the expense of American borders and “can no longer deliver basic services in times of emergency.”
“All of this will change starting today, and it will change very quickly,” he said.
As of Monday, Republicans control all three branches of the federal government.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.