Hunter Biden calls Donald Trump a racist pig and says his father has stage 4 cancer

In an interview with BBC Two's Newsnight, Hunter Biden criticised Donald Trump in personal terms and gave an update on his father's health. The son of former Democratic President Joe Biden called Trump "a complete and utter racist pig" and an Islamophobe during a discussion about Trump's attacks on Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan.

BBC Two reported that Trump had called El-Sayed a "radical extremist", a "terrorist sympathizer" and a "jihadist lunatic", and suggested that if El-Sayed won Michigan he would need to pass through a metal detector to enter the Senate. Hunter Biden said the remarks showed Trump was "a racist through and through" and asked why El-Sayed, who was born in Michigan, would need such a check other than because he is Muslim.

The interview also covered the midterm elections. Hunter Biden said the vote was a referendum on Trump and that the Democratic Party had "an enormous amount of work to do" to regain public trust. He said his father beat Trump by 8 million votes in 2020, a margin he used to argue that Trump's politics could be stopped, and noted that his father was not on the ticket in 2024.

He accused Trump's administration of "total corruption" and said accountability would be difficult to obtain. He also criticised Democratic congresswoman Haley Stevens for backing the Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers over Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, saying Stevens had made "a purely selfish and personal choice" and had embarrassed herself.

On foreign policy, Hunter Biden said he had heard talk that the administration was considering deploying a tactical nuclear weapon against Iran. He said Trump was "flat out saying, after Tuesday, all bets are off" and warned that people should be "very, very, very, very nervous" about what happens next.

Asked about his father, Hunter Biden said Joe Biden had stayed with him for the past week. He said his father's PSA is zero and his prostate treatment was successful, but that he has stage 4 metastatic bone cancer that is only treatable by hormone therapy. He said the illness is painful and that his father does not complain.

BBC Two noted that Trump has previously denied being racist, saying he is "the least racist person you have ever met", and has referred to Muslims as "great people".