Joe Biden 'Is the Worst President' and 17 Other Things Donald Trump Said at the 2024 Presidential Debate

Former U.S. president and 2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump targeted Joe Biden when asked about the country's increasing national debt.

"We’re like a third-world nation. Between weaponization of his election, trying to go after his political opponent," Trump said. "All of the things he’s done, we’ve become like a third-world nation."

Trump shed light on how the incumbent president handled the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

"As far as Afghanistan is concerned, I was getting out of Afghanistan but we were getting out with dignity, with strength, with power," the former The Apprentice host said. "He got out. It was the most embarrassing day in the history of our country’s life."

While Biden claimed young women had been raped by their family members, Trump highlighted another important issue the U.S. has reportedly been facing.

"There have been many young women murdered by the people he allows to cross the border," he said. "These killers are coming into our country, and they are raping and killing women."

Trump dropped a scathing comment that questioned Biden's health after the president appeared to have misspoken while answering a question about immigration.

"I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don’t think he knows what he said either," Trump said.

After Biden called him a convicted felon following the guilty verdict in his hush money case, Trump hit back and branded the president a criminal.

"Joe could be a convicted felon with all of the things that he’s done, he’s done horrible things," Trump said, later adding, " This man, you’re lucky, you’re lucky, I did nothing wrong. We have a system that was rigged and disgusting."

Biden said Trump has "the morals of an alley cat" as he shared his rival's legal battles and controversies.

The media personality, 78, declared, "I didn't have s-- with a p--- star," likely referring to Stormy Daniels or Karen McDougal.

The presumptive GOP nominee asserted elsewhere in the debate that he left the current president a "perfect economy" but ruined it.

"All he had to do was leave it alone," Trump said of the economy. "All he had to do was leave it. He decided to open up our border."

Biden called out his rival for calling fallen military members "suckers" and having the Marine general fired for publicizing the comments. Trump, in response, said the general deserved to lose the position because "he was no good."

Biden continued to attack Trump over a report he called veterans "suckers and losers," as reported by The Atlantic. He also alleged that Trump fired the Marine general who reported the comments to the press.

"This guy hasn’t fired anybody. He should have fired every military man involved in the Afghan horror show, the most embarrassing [incident] in the history of our country," Trump said of Biden after referencing his "You're fired" line from The Apprentice.

He directly asked Biden, "Did you fire anybody? Did you fire anybody on the border? Joe, our country is being destroyed as you and I sit up here and waste a lot of time on this debate."

During the debate, Trump claimed he deployed the National Guard to Minneapolis during the unrest following the murder of George Floyd.

"When they ripped down Portland, when they ripped down many other cities. You go to Minnesota, Minneapolis, what they’ve done there with the fires all over the city — if I didn’t bring in the National Guard, that city would have been destroyed," the 2024 presidential candidate said.

CNN has since debunked his statement, clarifying that Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz was the one who activated the National Guard.

Amid concerns over his age, Trump assured the viewers he is healthier than Biden.

"Well, I took two tests, cognitive tests, I aced them, both of them as you know, we made it public," Trump claimed. "He took none, I'd like to see him take one, just one, a real easy one. Like go through the first five questions, he couldn't do it."

The 45th U.S. president added, "We knock on wood wherever we may have wood that I'm in very good health. I just won two club championships, not even senior, two regular club championships. To do that, you have to be quite smart, and you have to be able to hit the ball a very long way."

After previously making headlines for questioning the 2020 results, Trump hedged on whether he would accept the outcome of the next election.

The Republican said he would "if it's a fair and legal and good election, absolutely."

“If everything’s honest, I’ll gladly accept the results. I don’t change on that,” Trump assured. “If it’s not, you have to fight for the right of the country.”

In his final two minutes, Trump offered a statement that served as an offense and defense. He highlighted Biden's alleged lapses before empathizing with Americans.

"For three and a half years, we’ve been living in h---," Trump continued. "This is a hundred times Charlottesville, a thousand times Charlottesville.

He ended his statement with: "We’re in a failing nation, but it’s not going to be failing anymore. We’re going to make it great again."