Throughout his political career, former Vice President Joe Biden has often been referred to as the nation's consoler-in-chief. Now, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to incapacitate American life, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee has sought to juxtapose his compassion with President Donald Trump’s public displays of calousness.

On Tuesday, James Corden asked Biden what he thought of Trump's marathon press briefings, which often devolve into petty name-calling and abdications of responsibility. Biden told the Late Late Show host that he’s frustrated by the president's attitude.

“The frustration is, he's leaving so many people behind. Look at all the first responders. Look at all the people who are putting themselves in harm's way. Literally, they're risking their lives, and some are losing their lives. ... What I focus on is, look at the damage being done to so many families that wouldn't have to be done if we had just taken action and prepared,” Biden said. “Or, even if he didn't know how to prepare, if once it became to clear to him, if he stopped slow motioning everything. Everything with him is slow motion. We gotta move quickly, provide all this gear for people, the testing materials. There's so much we can do to change this.”

He added, “What I get frustrated about is when I look at him up there going through his antics about him, it's always about him, is what all the people are getting hurt—and some of them are dying.”

Like many others, Biden raised alarms over the coronavirus long before President Trump did. In a January 27 op-ed for USA Today, Biden wrote, “To be blunt, I am concerned that the Trump administration’s shortsighted policies have left us unprepared for a dangerous epidemic that will come sooner or later.” (The same day the op-ed was published, Trump wrote on Twitter, “We are in very close communication with China concerning the virus. Very few cases reported in USA, but strongly on watch. We have offered China and President Xi any help that is necessary. Our experts are extraordinary!”)

Said Biden on Tuesday about his piece, “It was clear to me that when the Trump administration transitioned from [the Barack Obama administration], they had no interest in talking about pandemics. We warned them about them. We had been concerned there would be future pandemics. We had set up an office within the White House to have a pandemic office. They just disregarded all of it and it was clear to me at that time the president had no sense: no sense of science, no sense of responsibility. It just really worried me that he was both qualified and competent to deal with something like this. It's not anything he's ever dealt with or had any inclination to deal with.”