US Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden joined former President Barack Obama to criticise Donald Trump, saying the President has taken "no responsibility" for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Biden released a teaser video of an interview with him and Obama on Twitter where they mocked the current President's handling of the virus.
The video shows the pair each making a point to physically distance and wear face masks - the latter of which Trump has publicly stated he resists doing.
"Can you imagine standing up when you were President and saying 'it's not my responsibility, I take no responsibility'. Literally. Literally," Biden says to Obama.
Obama replies: "Those words didn't come out of our mouths while we were in office." Biden was Obama's vice-President during their eight years in office.
"I don't understand his inability to get a sense of what people are going through," Biden says. "He just can't relate in any way."
Obama says it all starts with being able to relate.
"If you can sit down with a family and see your own family in them and the struggles that you've gone through, or your parents went through or your kids are going through. If you can connect those struggles to somebody else's struggles, then you are going to work hard for them."
Trump told reporters on March 13 he doesn't "take responsibility at all" for the pandemic because he was given rules and regulations "from a different time". He said two days later he had "tremendous control" over it.
Later on April 3, he said wearing masks needed to be voluntary.
"You can do it, you don't have to do it. I'm choosing not to do it, but some people may want to do it and that's OK."
It was only on July 12 he publicly wore a mask for the first time while visiting a hospital. He later implored everyone to wear masks on Tuesday this week.
"We're asking everybody that when you are not able to socially distance, wear a mask, get a mask. Whether you like the mask or not, they have an impact, they'll have an effect and we need everything we can get."
Biden and Obama's full interview with each other is due to be released on their social media platforms on Thursday (local time).
