Scott Morrison reveals a major difference between Donald Trump and Joe Biden in candid sit-down

Scott Morrison has opened up about the big difference between current US President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump.

Mr Morrison, who served as Prime Minister of Australia from 2018 to 2022, spoke to former Olympic diver Sam Fricker about his Dive deep podcast.

‘They are very different people. Incredible. Joe is what you would call an institutional veteran. Joe is a Washington politician,” he said.

“Donald was the exact opposite of that. Donald was a disruptor.”

The ex-prime minister elaborated on the differences between the current and former US presidents, saying that Biden has “been around for a long time” and “knows the system.”

“He knows how it works, he understands the importance of institutions, what they call relationships at the multilateral level, like ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations),” he said.

Mr Morrison said the US president has a deep understanding of politics around the world, including in Australia.

“He gets all this formal, official politics and the world order and how it works. (He) understood the Australian relationship very well,” he said.

‘And so he is a lot more orthodox in his approach.’

Mr. Morrison controversially raised a topic that has been making more and more headlines lately: Mr. Biden’s age, 81.

“He’s not a young man, and a lot of people have talked about that, but personally I thought he was very good to be around, especially one-on-one,” he said.

US doctors have called on Mr Biden to undergo cognitive tests proving he is fit to serve after an astonishing week of blunders, as well as a Justice Department report that raised serious questions about his health.

The DOJ report described Mr. Biden as an “older man with poor memory,” finding that he could not remember the years he was vice president and could not remember “even within several years” when his son Beau died.

Mr. Biden angrily addressed the nation about the DOJ report, telling Americans, “I know what the hell I’m doing!” and insisting that ‘my memory is fine.’

Mr Morrison also praised Mr Biden for the way he is dealing with Australia as an economic and strategic partner.

“He had great respect for Australia and our capabilities and what we could do and our relationship,” he said.

“So he was the orthodox player.”

Morrison claimed Trump was the “complete opposite” and branded him a “disruptor”.

“As in his business career, he was a political disruptor,” he said.

The former Prime Minister added cautiously: ‘That’s not a bad thing. There were some things that needed to be disrupted.”

He used China as an example of how Trump disrupted politics around the world.

“If it wasn’t for Donald, I don’t think the world would have called out China in the way that they did,” Morrison said.

“And certainly, we were doing it at the same time and so we shared a lot of opinions about that. And I don’t think any other (American) president would have done that.”

Trump took a tough stance on China on a number of issues during his presidency between 2017 and 2021.

He tightened restrictions on Huawei and banned US companies from working with telecommunications companies deemed a national security risk.

“We don’t want their equipment in the United States because they’re spying on us,” Trump told Fox News in 2020.

“And whichever country uses it, we’re not going to do anything in terms of intelligence sharing.”

Mr Trump called out China during the Covid-19 pandemic the same year, famously calling it the “Chinese virus”.

He remained unapologetic and denied claims that it was a racist term.

“It’s from China, that’s why,” he said.

Morrison further ruffled feathers after calling for an international investigation into the origins of Covid-19, prompting China to impose tariffs on several exports.

In April 2022, just before losing the federal election to Anthony Albanese and the Labor Party, Morrison continued his attack on China and Russia.

He said an “arc of autocracy from Beijing to Moscow challenges the rules-based world order that our grandparents’ generation wanted to secure.”

“We are a liberal democracy that believes in freedom of speech, association and a free press,” he said in his Anzac Day speech in Darwin.

“We believe that the powerful should not dominate the weak, and that all peoples have the right to live free from coercion, intimidation and brute force.

“Above all, we believe in human dignity and the rights of all people to make choices for their own lives.”

China returned fire in December 2022, lashing out at Morrison’s “radical, bigoted, flawed and stupid” policies.

The Chinese Communist Party’s mouthpiece, The Global Times, criticized the governments led by Morrison and Malcolm Turnbull.

The newspaper claimed they had “deliberately created trouble out of thin air” and “seriously damaged the friendly and cooperative atmosphere built up in China-Australia relations over decades.”