Former Vice President Joe Biden doesn’t get that his use of the term “boy” when talking about a past relationship with a Senate segregationist is offensive to the black community, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J. said Sunday.
In an interview on ABC News’ “This Week,” Booker, a fellow Democratic presidential contender, said Biden showed “a lack of understanding.”
"He is a presidential nominee, and to say something — and again, it's not about working across the aisle, if anything I've made that a hallmark of my time in the Senate, to get big things done and legislation passed,” he said.
“This is about him invoking a terrible power dynamic that he showed a lack of understanding or insensitivity to by invoking this idea that he was called 'son' by white segregationists who, yeah, they see in him their son,” he said.
Booker also said Trump’s last-minute decision to call off a strike against Iran in retaliation for its shoot-down of a U.S. drone puts America in a “weaker position.”
“This is a president that does not have a strategy, and unfortunately, has made us weaker,” Booker said. “We are the strongest nation on the planet Earth but our strength is magnified and multiplied when we stand in coalition with our allies, with other western democracies and we are not there right now.”
“We have a president that seems to be doing this like a reality TV show and trying to build more drama and trying to make foreign policy by tweet,” he added. “We have to, as a nation, work incoordination with our allies to denuclearize Iran and to bring stability and peace back to that region.”
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