Did Joe Biden call Donald Trump xenophobic?

PRESIDENT Trump and Joe Biden took part in the final presidential debate on October 22 at 9 pm EST.

During one of the topic debates Trump accused Biden of calling him xenophobic.

Trump and Joe Biden took part in the final presidential debate on October 22

What does xenophobic mean?

The definition of xenophobic is to have or show a dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries.

Did Joe Biden call Donald Trump xenophobic?

President Trump defended his response to the coronavirus pandemic when he closed the border.

He said, “I closed it, and you said, ‘He’s xenophobic. He’s a racist and he’s xenophobic,’ because you didn’t think I should have closed our country.” 

President Trump defended his response to the coronavirus pandemic when he closed the border

It’s not clear Biden knew about Trump’s China travel restrictions when he called Trump xenophobic on the day the restrictions were unveiled.

Biden has never explicitly linked his accusation of xenophobia to these travel restrictions.

Biden did accuse Trump of “fear-mongering” as the president defended his use of the phrase ‘Chinese virus’ to reference the coronavirus, claiming the term is “not racist”.

During a White House briefing Trump said he had “important developments in our war against the Chinese Virus,” leading one reporter to question why he’s repeatedly used the phrase.

He told reporters he used the description because the virus originated in Wuhan, China before stressing that the expression is “not racist at all.”

“It’s not racist at all,” Trump reasoned.

“It comes from China, that’s why. It comes from China. I want to be accurate.”

Sen. Joe Biden directly called out Trump on Twitter after the White House briefing, claiming that the president’s comments equated to “xenophobic fear-mongering”.