Outgoing US President Joe Biden has strongly criticized his successor in the White House, Donald Trump, for his intention to take away the right to acquire US citizenship by birth. Those born in the United States automatically acquire US citizenship, regardless of whether their parents are US citizens or have entered the country illegally.

Speaking to reporters at the White House, Biden said the belief in white racial superiority represents a threat to American society. “We are the largest multicultural nation in the world. This is why we are so powerful. It is the reason why we are what we are,” he emphasized.

Last month, Trump told NBC that from the first day of his presidency he would seek to remove the right to acquire US citizenship from those born in the US.

As for the intention to “change a constitutionally guaranteed birthright – if you are born in the country… are you not a citizen of it? What’s going on?”’ Biden said.

The outgoing Democratic US president also sharply criticized Trump for urging Republican lawmakers to vote against the immigration bill. “It’s ridiculous. It’s ridiculous,” he said.

Trump used anti-immigration rhetoric to rally voters ahead of last November’s election, which he ultimately won over Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee.

Asked about the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol, Biden said he still believed Trump represented a “real threat to democracy.”

Refusing to accept defeat in the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump has urged his supporters to flock to Capitol Hill to block the ratification of the election results that declared Joe Biden the winner.

“I don’t think it should be forgotten,” the 82-year-old president said of the Capitol invasion.