#Trump thinks ‘professional’ Biden will ‘do great’ at first debate

President Trump is expecting Democratic nominee Joe Biden “to do great” when they square off in the first presidential debate next Tuesday.

Speaking to “Fox & Friends” Monday morning, the commander-in-chief made the pronouncement after being asked what his thoughts were going into next week, when the two will meet face-to-face for the first time since the 45th president’s inauguration in January 2017.

“I think he’s a professional. I don’t know if he’s all there, but I think he’s a professional,” Trump remarked, adding, “I have to assume that he’s a professional and that he can debate.”

“I don’t understand what’s going on. He doesn’t seem to be answering questions and he can’t answer questions and much worse, a little while ago when he was on the stage with the Democrats, he couldn’t do well,” he continued.

Getting specific, Trump touted the former vice president’s handling of the Democratic primary debates.

In the early stages of the primary, he argued, Biden was “horrible when he was debating the Democrats.”

“Pocahontas just destroyed him,” the president remarked in reference to former 2020 Democrat Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).

He then argued that vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), who was previously Biden’s rival on the debate stage, “was so horrible” to her eventual running mate.

“What she said to him was terrible. I’ll tell you what, I watched that, and I’m shocked that he picked her [as his running mate] because he was…treated so badly by Kamala, and then he picks her,” he noted.

Once Biden made it to the final primary debate between him and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), according to Trump, “he did okay.”

Trump later described the debate as “sort of a tie” that “was nothing great.”

“I’ve done more in 47 months than he’s done in 47 years — and that’s absolutely true,” he added.

The first presidential debate will take place Tuesday, Sept. 29 in Cleveland, Ohio. It will be moderated by Fox News anchor Chris Wallace.

Last week, the president called “Fox & Friends” and offered similar takes on Biden’s debate performance, warning however that he couldn’t adequately predict how the former VP would perform when they finally squared off.

Trump argued that it was unclear what kind of shape Biden would be in at the debates from watching his previous performances.

“Well I don’t know which Biden is going to show up because I watched him during the debates where they had 20 people on the stage … and he was a disaster, you don’t get worse. He was grossly incompetent. Then I watched him against [Sen.] Bernie [Sanders] and he was okay. He wasn’t Winston Churchill, I can tell you that, but he was okay. He was fine, I said it was like an even debate,” he explained.

Then the president said he began to wonder, “‘What did he do? What happened to him all of a sudden?’ Because he was OK, and Bernie was OK, it was, you know, an extraordinarily boring debate, but he got through it. And I said, ‘What’s the difference between now and some of those classic moments in the other debates?’ And something was strange, in my opinion, I won’t say what but a lot of people think that something happened and you can’t do that kind of stuff, you just can’t do that kind of stuff.”