Former Vice President Joe Biden Joe BidenSenate Republicans face tough decision on replacing Ginsburg What Senate Republicans have said about election-year Supreme Court vacancies Biden says Ginsburg successor should be picked by candidate who wins on Nov. 3 MORE says President Trump Donald John TrumpObama calls on Senate not to fill Ginsburg's vacancy until after election Planned Parenthood: 'The fate of our rights' depends on Ginsburg replacement Progressive group to spend M in ad campaign on Supreme Court vacancy MORE's request for a military parade "undercuts everything about [U.S.] power."

In an interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell on Thursday, Biden said the president's request for a military parade isn't needed to display the United States's power.

"If he means rolling missiles down Pennsylvania Avenue, I think it undercuts everything about our power," Biden said. "We don't have to display our power, our physical power. God Almighty! The most powerful nation in the history of the world. I don't know what it is with him."

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The president has reportedly asked top Pentagon officials to begin organizing a grand military parade in celebration of the armed forces, after he was inspired by the Bastille Day parade in France during a July visit to the country.

The Pentagon is reportedly eyeing holding the parade on Veterans Day, which this year coincides with the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I.

Defense Secretary James Mattis James Norman MattisBiden courts veterans amid fallout from Trump military controversies Trump says he wanted to take out Syria's Assad but Mattis opposed it Gary Cohn: 'I haven't made up my mind' on vote for president in November MORE said Wednesday during a White House press briefing that the Pentagon has started considering options for a parade and will send them to the White House for a decision at a later date.

Biden, who has long been rumored as a potential 2020 challenger to Trump, called the president "a joke" this week for his controversial remarks calling Democrats who didn't applaud his State of the Union address "treasonous."