Former US President Donald Trump in a presidential debate on CNN hit out at his successor and current President Joe Biden over America’s global stature which he said is like a “third world nation” today and said Washington is not “respected” anymore.

Trump termed the US withdrawal from Afghanistan as the “most embarrassing day” in the country’s history.

“Throughout the entire world, we are not respected anymore, they don’t respect our leadership, they don’t respect United States anymore. We are like a third-world nation, trying to weaponization of his election, going after his political opponent. All of the things he has done, we have become like a third-world nation. It’s a shame,” Trump said.

Trump said his administration also sought to get US troops out of Afghanistan, but with dignity.

“I was getting out of Afghanistan, but we were getting out with dignity, with strength, with power,” Trump said.

US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan was completed in August 2021 under the Biden administration.

In the debate, Biden defended his pullout of Afghanistan.

“The idea that he did something significant for the military, when he was president they were still killing people in Afghanistan – he didn’t do anything about that,” he said.

“When he was president we still found ourselves in a position where you had a notion that we were this safe country.

“The truth is, I’m the only president this century, that doesn’t have any – this decade – that doesn’t have any troops dying anywhere in the world, like he did,” Biden said.

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