President Joe Biden could not think of one thing that former President Donald Trump would do well, even when put on the spot during a recent interview.

Biden lectured Americans on Sunday about bringing down the temperature of the nation’s political rhetoric after a gunman opened fire on a Pennsylvania Trump rally, taking the life of a firefighter in addition to injuring the former president and two others. But still, during a Complex interview that was filmed just one day prior to the assassination attempt, Biden could not find one positive thing to say about his political opponent.

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“I ask this question in an effort to show the younger generation that we have to coexist,” host Speedy Morman prefaced the question. “So in the event that former President Trump wins this election, what is something that you feel he will do well?”

“I’m not being facetious. I can’t think of a single thing,” Biden replied after a long pause. “I’m serious think of think what his … look, look, look … What his objective is, it is totally anti-democratic.”

Biden went on to lay out a series of attacks on Trump, attributing a number of quotes to the former president that were either taken out of context or misrepresented.

“He says that he wants to be a dictator on day one, he means it. He says he will not recognize the outcome of the next election,” Biden said. “He made up a — I beat him by 7 million votes. And he made up, he went to, I think of 20 appeals to the courts all the way to the Supreme Court. Not one court said there was a single scintilla of evidence that he had, and what did he do then, January 6. And he encouraged people to go up and riot, policemen were killed, people were wounded, people were hurt, place was smashed up, or hanging … anyway. What did he do? He sat there in the dining room off of the Oval Office, watched it for three hours, didn’t say a damn thing.”

“And now he says if he loses, there’ll be a bloodbath? Name me a president in American history, that said anything like that. One. In all of American history, name me one,” Biden concluded.

MSNBC host Joy Reid said on Monday that she had very real concerns about the aftermath of Saturday’s attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump — namely that media would “acquiesce” and allow Trump to “rewrite himself” as a sympathetic victim.

Reid made the comments during a panel discussion that included fellow MSNBC hosts Rachel Maddow and Nicolle Wallace along with former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, and she said people she’d talked to were afraid that media would allow Americans to forget that Trump was “the greatest purveyor and promoter of political violence … since George Wallace.”

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Joy Reid fears that, after the assassination attempt on Trump, “the media will acquiesce” to Republicans and not label Trump “the greatest purveyor and promoter of political violence…since George Wallace.”

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“The universal kind of reaction that I am getting, whether from civilians or you know professionals, is really a deep concern and lack of confidence in — not us at this table or us at MSNBC, but us as the media write large — and fear that what’s going to happen now … is that the media will acquiesce to trying to convince people that the thing they’ve been experiencing you know for the last five, six years didn’t happen,” Reid explained. “That the greatest purveyor and promoter of political violence, really you know since anyone can remember, since George Wallace, I think, you know that we just haven’t experienced this kind of open you know sort of citing, or incitement of violence or sort of luxuriating in the idea of violence.”

Reid then claimed that people were expressing concern that media would not “be the guardians of memory” and would “allow Donald Trump, as he’s you know bathed in the glory and grandeur of his party to rewrite himself as both a hero and a victim that people who are the most vulnerable to not just the things he’s done but the things he’s promising to do, and that that will happen without a guardian saying wait, stop, and then the media will acquiesce to this rewrite.”