"He said I carpet bombed. That wasn’t me," Donald Trump says. | AP Photo Trump: Biden 'not a very smart guy'

Even before Joe Biden laced into Donald Trump in his convention speech as someone who "doesn't have a clue," the Republican nominee had registered his similarly low opinion of the vice president.

"Well, Joe Biden is not a very smart guy," Trump told Fox News' Brian Kilmeade in an interview on the "Kilmeade & Friends" radio show aired Thursday, in Biden's hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, conducted hours before the vice president spoke some 125 miles down the road in Philadelphia on Wednesday night.


Trump took specific issue with Biden's comments on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" earlier Wednesday in which the vice president remarked that the Republican nominee is "trying to be tough, but he's going to go out and carpet bomb."

"He said I carpet bombed. That wasn’t me. That was Ted Cruz that said that," Trump said. "You know, he used the expression 'carpet bomb.' Not to knock anybody, I’m just saying, it was Ted Cruz that said it."

Biden, Trump continued, is "ill-prepared because he says so many things that are just absolutely wrong about me."