Former President Donald Trump criticized President Joe Biden’s Oval Office address on his exit from the 2024 election, calling it a “terrible” speech and accusing Democrats of staging a coup against Biden to get out of the race.

During an interview Thursday morning on “Fox & Friends, Trump said that the abrupt end of his presidential campaign on Wednesday night left more questions than answers.

“I think it was a coup. They didn’t want him running. He was way down in the polls, and they thought he was going to lose,” Trump said. “They went to him and they said, you can’t win the race, which I think is true, unless I did something very foolish, which I wasn’t going to do, and I think he was so far down and they said, ‘You’re not going to win, and you’re not in great shape, and you did poorly in the debate.’ I think the debate started everything.”

“I know a lot of people on the other side, too, that they went, and they forced him out between Pelosi and Obama and some others that you see on television. It was interesting,” he continued. “I’d watch them on television and they act so nice. ‘Oh, yes, we loved you. We loved you behind the scenes.’ I know for a fact they were brutal.”

“It was like a terrible speech and terrible delivery,” Trump said. “He looked like he was having problems, and yet you watch the other networks and you would think he was Ronald Reagan in his prime, Winston Churchill in his prime, and he wasn’t. It was not good… It was not a good speech.”

“It’s so phony what’s going on,” he continued. “The press is so – it’s so fake. Anybody can see it was a problem.”